EUREKA DAY :: Online Lobby
Welcome to the Eureka Day Online Lobby experience! Information will continue to be added throughout the run.
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ONLINE DISCUSSIONS | PANDEMIC TIMELINE | MUMPS VACCINE STORY
BRIEF HISTORY OF VACCINES | LOBBY PILLARS | RECOMMENDED READING
FREE ONLINE DISCUSSION SERIES
Join from the comfort of your home! You’re invited to enjoy two upcoming online/virtual discussions exploring behind-the-scenes and the various themes of Eureka Day. Each conversation will last approximately one hour. FREE reservations are required; only those who register will receive the Zoom details to attend.
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VIRTUAL DISCUSSION WITH THE CAST
Sunday, February 1 at 11AM
Director Lili-Anne Brown joins members of the cast for a chat about their experience bringing Eureka Day to the stage.
Register for Virtual Discussion with the Cast
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VIRTUAL SUNDAY SCHOLARS PANEL DISCUSSION
Sunday, February 15 at 6PM
This panel discussion will feature a panel of experts on the theme of the play.
Register for Virtual Sunday Scholars Panel Discussion
PANDEMIC TIMELINE
Explore this illustrated timeline of deadly epidemics across history, as published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, compiled by Erik English.
The history of human civilization is riddled with grizzly stories of epidemics, many with wide ranges of uncertainty around the true toll of their devastation. Unfortunately, the only certainty is that more pandemics are coming.
STORY OF THE MUMPS VACCINE
In 1963, Dr. Maurice Hilleman was woken up by his daughter Jeryl Lynn, who was sick with the mumps. Over the next few years, he would isolate the Jeryl Lynn strain from his sick daughter and develop the first effective live, attenuated mumps vaccine. It was licensed as Mumpsvax in 1967, and before the Covid-19 vaccine, had been known as the fastest vaccine development in history.
An article published by Gavi: The Vaccine Alliance, tells the story.
Pictured: A 1966 photograph that accompanied Merck’s press release about the successful vaccine Mumpsvax depicted Jeryl Lynn comforting the crying Kirsten as the younger girl received her vaccination with the Jeryl Lynn Strain from Dr. Robert Weibel. Credit: The National Museum of American History
A BRIEF HISTORY OF VACCINES
Explore an illustrated timeline of the development of vaccines, as published by the World Health Organization.
LOBBY PILLARS
Want to spend more time perusing TimeLine’s lobby exhibit, or can’t make it to Broadway In Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse to see it in person? Here’s a look at the info currently wrapping the giant pillars in the Playhouse lobby (click on each image to access a PDF for closer viewing).
Eureka Day Lobby Display credits:
Dramaturgy and research by DeRon S. Williams and Grace Herman; editing and graphic design by Lara Goetsch; additional support by Nick Bowling.
RECOMMENDED READING
Dramaturgs DeRon S. Williams and Grace Herman have compiled a list of suggested books to explore many of the topics and themes in Eureka Day. They appear on the lobby pillars above on the “bookworms,” but here is the list:
— Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz
— Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones
— Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul Offit
— Democratic Decision-Making: Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments (SpringerBriefs in Political Science) — Peter Emerson
— Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
— Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial by Stuart Blume
— Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness by Shirley A. Hill
— Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock
— Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
— Pandemic Politics by Shana Kushner Gadarian et al.
— Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School by Shamus Rahman Khan
— Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now by Jaron Lanier
— The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America by Heather Won Tesoriero
— The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
— The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread — O’Connor & Weatherall
— The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics – A Fiercely Argued Vision for Persuading All Citizens and the Common Good by Mark Lilla
— The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
— The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy by Seth Mnookin
— The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development by Richard Weissbourd
— The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine
— The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith Wadman
— Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
— Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
— Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America by Mark Largent
— Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein