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the simultaneously comforting and alienating creatures with whom this musical (book and lyrics by Chris Mathews

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Chicago Tribune 4/20/10 – “”You don’t really need the subtitle — “a loud new musical” — to grasp that the all-new – hot-to-trot rock musical by the House Theatre of Chicago is trafficking in teenage archetypes. Any show that calls itself “Girls vs. Boys” isn’t exactly approaching relationships — emotional

sexual

sensitive brooder

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needy diva — are endlessly recycled because of their target audience’s endless appetite for reliving them. It’s a loop

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a self-fulfilling prophecy. And this show has just a glint of the kind of self-awareness that can make it all work again.

“Girls vs. Boys

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” which follows a little clutch of over-dramatic teens through parties and deserted playgrounds

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looking for love and acceptance even as beats pound and hormones rage