Featuring a Live Musical Score by Maxx McGathey and his Trio

Keyboardist Maxx McGathey and his trio (drummer Mehtab Kirtan and bassist Justin Peterson) return to the Music Box to perform their original score for Hitchcock’s The Lodger. Dreamy melodies, suspenseful grooves and experimental improvisation bring new life to the 1927 silent classic. This will be the first Chicago performance of the trio’s score since its Music Box of Horrors premiere in 2018. 

When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello), they're overjoyed: He's quiet, humble and pays a month's rent in advance. But his mysterious and suspicious behavior soon has them wondering if he's the killer terrorizing local blond girls. Their daughter, Daisy (June), a cocky model, is far less concerned, her attraction obvious. Her police-detective boyfriend (Malcolm Keen), in a pique of jealousy, seeks to uncover the lodger's true identity.