Chicago will be the first to experience the world premiere of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN before it opens on Broadway! With a cast of 40 directed by Tony Award-winner Frank Galati, this new musical is based on the real-life story of the legendary Irish clan leader, Grace O'Malley, who led an extraordinary life as a pirate chieftain, lover and mother in 16th Century Ireland. THE PIRATE QUEEN features a new score from Boublil and Schönberg, the Tony Award-winning authors of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, and is produced by Moya Doherty and John McColgan, the producers responsible for the worldwide phenomenon: Riverdance.