Chicago catches 'Big Fish' musical for pre-Broadway run
Chicago is reinforcing its reputation as "tryout city." Swimming into town next spring, a few months after the pre-Broadway premiere here of Cyndi Lauper's "Kinky Boots," will be the pre-Broadway premiere of "Big Fish," a new musical based on the the 2003 film and the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace. The musical, with a book by John August (who wrote the screenplay for the film), a score by Andrew Lippa ("The Addams Fam…