There is Life Outside Your Apartment! L I F E A T H O M E A SongShop Live Production “Here I go again, About to take that trip again!” Part One: August 24th, 7:00pm Part Two: September 7th, 7:00pm Every journey has its own score! Presented at The Venue at Daystar Call 312-559-9495 Settle into our new home, and we’ll sing your story. to plan the adventure of a lifetime!

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More SongShop Live Performances LIFE AT HOME, Part One Select Saturdays at 7 PM at the Venue at Daystar Saturday, August 24, 2013 SEPTEMBER 21st OCTOBER 19th

“TAKING A CHANCE Directed by Claudia Hommel Our first Chicago- Philip Seward at Piano ON LOVE” Sister-City exchange~ JIM ANDERSON and SPECIAL GUEST KERI CHRYST JO RAINEY are “two” Jazz vocals with a French spin! marvelous for words! Lynda A Place Called Home & Lynn Aherns Opening with “New and Artful Opening with Jo Rainey and Cardi Back Home Again in Indiana James F. Hanley & Ballard MacDonald Songs”—an illustrated Philip Seward‘s A Weekend in Vocal Canvas concert by the Country with Sondheim Carmen Happiness Is Clark Gesner (from You’re a Good CLAUDIA HOMMEL and singer- Man, Charlie Brown ) composer ELIZABETH DOYLE. Director of Jazz Vocal Academy in Paris, Jo The House That Built Me Allen Shamblin and Tom Douglas Keri Chryst leads a masterclass at 1 PM, Philip Seward at also at the Venue at Daystar. Arlene The Man I Love George & Ira Gershwin Jim It Feels Like Home John Bucchino NOVEMBER 2nd NOVEMBER 16th “Thank You for the Music” Carol Two Sleepy People & “SONGS FOR OZ AND BEYOND” From Mahalia to McBroom to Ron Anderson: Cardi Tea for Two Vincent Youmans & Irving Caesar Marcovicci...and more (from No, No, Nanette ) Tribute to John Denver Ensemble Cell Block Tango & (from Join Carol Weston, Arlene Armstrong, Carrie Hedges: Chicago) and Ruth Fuerst as they Songs in the Key of Oz: A romp celebrate the vocalists, lyricists, & Carol The Portrait Amanda McBroom through the Musicals inspired by composers who’ve been their inspiration “The Wizard of Oz” Carmen My Own Space John Kander and Fred Ebb (from Opening with Solo Sets by The Act ) Opening with Solo Sets by Amy CChildren Will Listen (from Into the Amy Lechelt-Basta and Lynda Gordon Woods ) Leona Zions and Sue Susman Nick Sula, Music Director Jim Painting My Kitchen John Bucchino Lynda There Is Life Outside Your & (from About SONGSHOP Apartment ) SPECIAL THANKS TO Director Claudia Hommel and Claudia Hommel’s hands-on workshop Jo Crossword Puzzle & Richard Maltby, Jr. Piano Maestro Philip Seward is an opportunity for theatre and music (from Starting Here, Stating Now ) Daystar Center’s Amanda Neely and staff students, amateurs and professionals, Jim Too Marvelous for Words Richard Whiting & Videographer Jason Madeja to strengthen and deepen how they Assistance by Laley Lippard and Cappy approach, interpret, and communicate Amy Makin’ Whoopee Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn Kidd. Additional SongShop accompa- meaning in a song. ~ SongShop is open nists & coaches: Bob Moreen, Elizabeth to all singers and takes place most Arlene Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield Doyle, George Howe, Louise Cloutier Tuesday evenings at DePaul School of Music and Saturday afternoons at the Jim & Jo I’d Give It All for You SIGN OUR MAILING LIST! Daystar Center. Find yourself in song visit SONGSHOPLIVE.COM at a place that feels like home. or call 773-509-9360 to join us. www.songshoplive.com Polo Club, Little Bucharest, Cyrano’s Bistrot, Siamsa naGael, community theater as Doris Davenport’s , Underground Wonder McAfee/Bye, Bye Birdie, Cookie/Rumors LIFE AT HOME, Part Two Bar, Old Town School of Folk Music, Jazz and Trudy/Social Security. She is an active Showcase and The Venue. You can also see member of Old St. Pat’s Choir and The Irish Saturday, September 7, 2013 her perform Balinese gamelan around the Heritage Center. She is married to the love of country with Indonesian Dance of Illinois. her life, Theodore Salinski and is the mother Featured in upcoming SongShop Solo Sets: of six accomplished children and “one Directed by Claudia Hommel September 21 and October 19. perfect grandchild”. Philip Seward at Piano LEONA ZIONS. LeeZee’s first gig at 3½ PHANUEL (known to his SongShop years of age was singing on Horn & Hardart’s intimates as Patrick) is a popular, spiritually- radio show! Six years of Glee Club led by guided contemporary Christian artist and Don Walkin’ My Baby Back Home Roy Turk & Fred E. Ahlert ’s pal Charlotte Hochman; seat- songwriter. His past experiences in Nigeria Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn mate was mezzo soprano Martina Arroya (I and his new home of Chicago inspire his Sue Makin’ Whoopee got the solos, she got the career). Marriage, writing and song. Phanuel realized his full Danny What Are You Doing the Rest of Michel Legrand, Alan & Marilyn children and leads in regional Pajama Game calling soon after earning his Bachelor’s Your Life? Bergman (from Happy Ending ) and Girl Crazy. Directed/choreographed Bye, degree from UIC. For a number of years, he Adrienne I Believe in You and Me Sandy Linzer & David Wolfert Bye Birdie in the Catskills, shades of Dirty sang solos as a member of the choir of Jesus Dancing. Many years with Marjorie Eliot’s House. While his musical influences include Ron Alan Menken & Parlor Entertainment in Harlem. Transplanted Seal and Sam Cooke, Phanuel’s voice and (from The Little Mermaid ) to Chicago and found CCP and SongShop. style have been described as unique and LeeZee When the Sun Comes Out & Ted Koehler Venues: Davenport’s for Opportunity Knocks, divinely inspired. Look for his début album Don Bring Him Home Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain CCP’s Holiday and Strut Your Stuff showcases; of ten positive and inspirational songs later Boublil and Cyrano’s Bistrot, DePaul, the Jazz Showcase, this year! (from Les Misérables) and the Venue at Daystar. Catch her Solo Set RON ANDERSON. After spending & Tim on November 16. Carrie Already Home 25 years as a folk singer in the haunts of Rice (from Webber’s The Wizard of Oz ) LYNDA GORDON. Northwestern Princeton, Greenwich Village and Liverpool, University theater major, alumna of the Ron slung his guitar on his back and headed Phanuel Home Drew Pearson & Greg Holden University of Michigan School of Education back to his native Minnesota. Somewhere Patricia Dieter’s Prayer Jerry Sternbach & Amanda and graduate of the Loyola University MBA along the way he took a wrong turn and McBroom program, Lynda has returned to her first ended up in the Cabaret world of Chicago. love—performing and singing. For many Ron also sang barbershop for several years Danny Lush Life Billy Strayhorn years her featured performances were as and earned a gold medal in international Ensemble Cell Block Tango John Kander & Fred Ebb (from parent, independent travel consultant, and chorus competition in Nashville in 2001 with Chicago) fund raiser for the Children’s Research the Northbrook New Tradition chorus. The Ron Impossible Dream & (from Foundation. She has appeared in SongShop’s folk scene and barbershop world prepared ) Flying and Something to Talk About, in Ron for Cabaret. Stay tuned for his tribute to Leona Come in From the Rain Melissa Manchester & Carole Broadway on the Cusp at the Polo Cafe John Denver on November 16. Bayer Sager for the Rotary Club and at Davenport’s for SUE SUSMAN started singing and Strut Your Stuff. She is on the Board of the Sue Feels Like Home to Me playing the ukelele at eight years old. She Chicago Cabaret Professionals and stars in & performed at camp and had fun. Starting at Don & Adrienne A House is Not a Home her role as Gramma Lynda singing with her age ten, she learned to play the guitar and David Friedman grandchildren Louisa and James! Come to Patricia Listen to My Heart sang and performed folk songs whenever she her Solo Set on November 2. Carrie Almost Home Mariah Carey, Mikkel Eriksen, had the chance. In the high school chorus, Justin Gray, Tor Erik Hermansen, PATRICIA RANGER SALINSKI. she also performed Handel’s Messiah, and Simone Porter & Lindsey Ray Property manager, consultant and guest other classical and non-classical pieces. She (Oz the Great and Powerful ) speaker, Patricia says, “Happy songs, sad has studied voice with Louise Cloutier. She Adrienne Home Charlie Smalls (from ) songs….. they all make us feel and know has sung at Cyrano’s, the Jazz Showcase, we are alive!” She has performed at The Buddy Guy’s Legends, the Beat Kitchen Auditorium Theater in the chorus of Too and the Abbey. Join us for her Solo Set on Hot To Handel, Symphony Center in November 16. ARTIST BIOS shows, styling clients, acting and various CAROL WESTON sang and learned drummer, harmonica player, stage and other musings! Before she jet-sets to to play the piano and violin at a very commercial actor, and voice-over artist. He CLAUDIA HOMMEL. Born in Paris, her home in southern France, catch her young age. For many years, she’s been a gives life to the story telling of The American raised in Detroit, and seasoned in New SongShop Solo Set on November 2. troubadour with guitar in hand, playing in Songbook as well as popular songs 1960’s to York, Claudia moved to Chicago to “do schools and libraries. She’s also been heard the present. Jazz is the vehicle through which ARLENE ARMSTRONG. Actor- the work”. She is proud to have founded around town at Davenport’s, Cyrano’s, The much of Danny’s artistic stylings take shape, Director-Musician, a multi-hyphenate before the Chicago Cabaret Professionals and Jazz Showcase, or playing the piano bar at scatting or playing drums behind a variety of she was out of grade school, Arlene recruited SongShop with so many like-minded the Drake Hotel or the Carlton Club at the wonderful musicians in many genres. Danny friends to do variety shows in her basement. performers. She is a member of the actors’ Ritz. As a founding member of the Chicago has accumulated a wealth of knowledge “Ever since I played the goose that laid the unions (SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity) Cabaret Professionals, she has been able to through many work experiences outside of the golden egg in Jack and the Beanstalk, the and is on faculty at the DePaul School of live her dream of becoming a cabaret singer. arts and entertainment industry. His is stage was mine.” She lists Karen Carpenter, Music Community Music Division. She She presented Life Is…. at Davenport’s with to give voice to these experiences—to touch Mahalia Jackson and Motown as musical tours nationally and to France with her Arlene Armstrong and Ruth Fuerst. They will a place in the listener’s heart and feel the influences. In addition to SongShop concerts and masterclasses. In addition to perform here on November 2. connection between all people. hosting the SongShop Live concerts, she’ll performances at the Jazz Showcase, perform on September 21 with singer- Cyrano’s, and for the South Chicago Rotary CARRIE HEDGES. In September DON HOFFMAN is a practicing oral pianist Elizabeth Doyle. Claudia invites you Club, Arlene took Just a Girl & a Piano 2010, Carrie retired from her position as a surgeon who has always found solace in to join Keri Chryst (our October 19 guest), to the Harold Washington Library with staff attorney with the U.S. District Court singing. Don has participated in various Maja Savić of Croatia, and herself for a Jazz Bobby Schiff; Life is…Snapshots in Song and joined Claudia Hommel’s SongShop. singing groups since childhood, studies voice Tour & Workshop in Paris, June 2014! Visit with Ruth Fuerst and Carol Weston sold She has appeared since at Cyrano’s and with Mary Ann Beatty, and has recently found cabaret-paree.com. out at Davenport’s Cabaret. Come back for the Jazz Showcase and made her debut a great deal of satisfaction in the cabaret their trio show Thank You for the Music, at Davenport’s in the CCP 2011 Holiday venue. Interpretation of the rhythms and PHILIP SEWARD has been playing November 2. Cabaret, and appeared in Broadway on the lyrics of The American Songbook is quite the piano since a small child, joining the Cusp!, to benefit the Rotary Near South in challenging but most gratifying. CARDI FLECK. With parents and cabaret, music theatre, and opera stages as he 2013. She sings in the University of Chicago siblings who either sang or played a musical JIM ANDERSON. With a transistor got older. He has been known to sing a mix Chorus and serves on the Board of the instrument, Cardi’s Indiana home was filled radio tucked under his pillow, Jim often fell of standards and original works in the most Chicago Children’s Choir. She is President of with tunes. Cardi studied piano for many asleep listening to Chicago DJ’s “play the intimate of settings. His short opera, How the International Wizard of Oz Club. Items years and often accompanied singers but hits,” in spite of his mother’s best efforts To Date A Coloratura was named a finalist from Carrie’s extensive Oz collection have never sang herself. A member of SAG- to turn him on to the Great American in the National Opera Association chamber appeared in Chicago Magazine and at the AFTRA, Cardi is active on stage, television Songbook. Although a member of choirs opera competition and Light Opera Works Field Museum. Her musical collection, Songs and movies, but only recently decided to and choruses, Jim later fell under a spell-- Second Stage recently premiered his one-act in the Key of Oz, is here on November 16! opera Eve. To listen to his music or purchase follow her passion to sing. She is thrilled to cast by Claudia Hommel and her cabaret a CD, visit iTunes or philipseward.com. add this aspect to her life and thanks all her DEBORAH DARR. During the day cadre of Songshoppers. It turns out that Jim friends and family for their love and support. Deborah has her own Physical Therapy really does love standards. Away from the ADRIENNE MINNES. Teacher by day practice, but, having been a performer in office, he studies voice with Louise Cloutier CARMEN BODINO. “Making a at Amundsen High School, soulful singer her “past life”, her desire to sing and dance and sings with the DePaul University difference” is what keeps Carmen going. by night, Adrienne’s performances include still thrives. Past roles include Paquette Community Chorus. He has appeared at Her musical path flows from church choir multiple solo appearances at Northeastern in Candide (Broadway, NYC Opera, and Cyrano’s, Davenport’s, the Jazz Showcase, in the Philippines to Bach in St. Louis to University Black History Month celebration Chicago Lyric), Dolly/Hello, Dolly; Babe/ and performed with John Bucchino at Stage Community Renewal Chorus tours in the and several SongShop concerts. Pajama Game; Lola/Damn Yankees; Joannie 773. Our favorite wordster will perform on Midwest and in socialist countries, Cathedral Caucus/Doonesbury; plus a smattering of September 21 with Jo Rainey. AMY LECHELT-BASTA, aka Amy choirs and Classic Guitar in Chicago, TV commercials. Last September, she co- Fabulous, returns to the stage after a long spreading the message of love through music. JO RAINEY, aka Joanne Pakieser, has created and performed Final Flight Check hiatus during which she went from playing Past microbiologist/mycologist/administrator; enjoyed sharing her songs ever since her about her mother’s experience as a Women’s ingenue (Morales/, Nancy/ fascinated with art songs, arias, Chopin, first kindergarten solo. A classically-trained Air Service Pilot in WWII. Getting onto the Oliver and Anne/La Cage Aux Folles) Copland, classic guitar, and Lionel Ritchie; musician who also grew up singing to Peggy cabaret stage has been a long time dream, and to Grandma! Playing with Second City grateful to all vocal teachers and coaches; Lee, Motown and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Jo loves she thanks Claudia and Philip for helping to (including the role of Cinderella with the member Chicago Cabaret Professionals; the cabaret repertoire for the eclectic story- make it a reality! Children’s Theater) helped prepare her performed in SongShop concerts at Cyrano’s, telling mix that allows her to draw from all for this new reality-character! Today, AF DePaul University Recital Hall, The Venue at DANNY REESE, musician and actor, of her musical loves. A member of Chicago continues to put her dancin’ foot forward Daystar. See her solo début at Davenport’s on has worked across the country as singer, Cabaret Professionals, Jo has performed at wearing Gucci shoes—producing fashion September 1 for Here’s To Life! various venues around Chicago, including the LIFE AT HOME, Part Two AmendedSaturday, September playlist 7, 2013

Directed by Claudia Hommel Philip Seward at Piano Don Walkin’ My Baby Back Home Roy Turk & Fred E. Ahlert Sue Makin’ Whoopee Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn Danny What Are You Doing the Rest of Michel Legrand, Alan & Marilyn Your Life? Bergman (from Happy Ending ) Adrienne I Believe in You and Me Sandy Linzer & David Wolfert Ron Under the Sea Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (from The Little Mermaid ) LeeZee When the Sun Comes Out Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler Don Bring Him Home Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer (from Les Misérables) Carrie Already Home Andrew Lloyd Webber & (from Webber’s The Wizard of Oz ) Patricia Dieter’s Prayer Jerry Sternbach & Amanda McBroom Danny Lush Life Billy Strayhorn Deborah Could I Leave You? Stephen Sondheim (from ) Ensemble Cell Block Tango John Kander & Fred Ebb (from Chicago) Ron Impossible Dream Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion (from Man of la Mancha ) Leona Come in From the Rain Melissa Manchester & Sue Feels Like Home to Me Randy Newman Don & Adrienne A House is Not a Home Burt Bacharach & Hal David Patricia Listen to My Heart David Friedman Carrie Almost Home Mariah Carey, Mikkel Eriksen, Join us here at the Daystar when Fitness For Singers meets each week: Justin Gray, Tor Erik Hermansen, Simone Porter & Lindsey Ray Saturdays at noon with Pam Peterson’s Zing! (Oz the Great and Powerful ) Sundays at 5 PM with Deborah Darr’s NIA! Adrienne Home Charlie Smalls (from The Wiz ) Non-singers are welcome, too!