Chicago Children S Theatre Bud, Not Buddy Production Shot Photo Key Please Credit All

Chicago Children’s Theatre Bud, Not Buddy production shot photo key Please credit all photos: Charles Osgood Questions? Jay Kelly, [email protected] or 312.565.4623/312.315.3935 (cell)

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_1.jpg Travis Turner plays Bud in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, a play for children 8 and up based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury-winning book about a young African-American orphan searching for his father in Depression-era Michigan. Clues kept in his suitcase lead Bud to a group of jazz musicians where he finds community, and ultimately, an unexpected sense of home. Full of laugh out loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_3.jpg Genevieve VenJohnson plays Miss Thomas and Travis Turner plays Bud in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, a play for children 8 and up based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury-winning book about a young African-American orphan searching for his father in Depression-era Michigan. Clues kept in his suitcase lead Bud to a group of jazz musicians where he finds community, and ultimately, an unexpected sense of home. Full of laugh out loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222- 9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_4.jpg Tracy N. Bonner plays Bud’s momma, Travis Turner plays Bud, and McKenzie Chinn is “young momma” in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, a play for children 8 and up based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury-winning book about a young African- American orphan searching for his father in Depression-era Michigan. Full of laugh out loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_6.jpg In Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, Bud (played by Travis Turner, center) hitches a friendly ride with members of a jazz band played by (front, flanking Turner, from left) Kamal Angelo Bolden and Brian Grey, and (back, from left) Cedric Mays and Mykele Callicutt. Ideal for ages 8 and up, Bud Not Buddy is based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury- winning book about a young African-American orphan searching for his father in Depression- era Michigan. It plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_7.jpg (from left) Travis Turner plays Bud, Andre Teamer is Jimmy Wesley, and Cedric Young plays Herman Calloway in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, a play for children 8 and up based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury-winning book about a young African- American orphan searching for his father in Depression-era Michigan. Clues kept in his suitcase lead Bud to a group of jazz musicians where he finds community, and ultimately, an unexpected sense of home. Full of laugh out loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_13.jpg Travis Turner plays Bud and McKenzie Chinn is Deza in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, a play for children 8 and up based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury- winning book about a young African-American orphan searching for his father in Depression- era Michigan. Clues kept in his suitcase lead Bud to a group of jazz musicians where he finds community, and ultimately, an unexpected sense of home. Full of laugh out loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood

CCT_Bud Not Buddy_set shot.jpg Travis Turner plays Bud in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Bud, Not Buddy, a play for children 8 and up based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ popular, Newbury-winning book about a young African-American orphan searching for his father in Depression-era Michigan. Clues kept in his suitcase lead Bud to a group of jazz musicians where he finds community, and ultimately, an unexpected sense of home. Full of laugh out loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy plays now through February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. For tickets and information, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call the Chicago Children’s Theatre box office, (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778. Photo credit: Charles Osgood