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Sara Bareilles' songbook carries this one — 'She Used to Be Mine' still lands as one of the better character-defining ballads in a modern jukebox-adjacent score, even for people who groan at 'movie turned into a musical.'

The 2007 film it's based on carries its own real tragedy: writer-director Adrienne Shelly, who also starred in it, was murdered in her own office months before the film premiered — she never saw the movie reach an audience, let alone its stage adaptation nearly a decade later. When the musical opened on Broadway in 2016, it made its own kind of history: the first Broadway show ever to have women in all four top creative roles at once — book, music and lyrics, direction, and choreography — with only two other shows since 1975 (Runaways and Quilters) having pulled off an all-female creative team at all, and neither with this many women in lead positions simultaneously.

Worth knowing: no single showtime is listed since it runs a normal six-day theater schedule — check broadwayinchicago.com for the exact date and time you want.