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annual gala concert 2019 The Chicago Connexion Tour de France is open to performers and fans. September 12-22, 2019: Ten exciting days in France to tour, sing, Production by Claudia HOMMEL learn and perform with fellow artists * Over 30 hours of master classes and workshops Music direction by * Evening concerts and jam sessions Elizabeth DOYLE and Myron SILBERSTEIN * French cuisine and camaraderie * Free time to explore Montpellier, Sète and Paris bene! tting the SongShop Scholarship Fund, www.cabaretconnexion.org/program_join.php a project of Working in Concert NFP SATURDAY, MAY 4 SUNDAY, MAY 5 Beth Halevy, Carrie Hedges, Caryn Caffarelli, Don Hoffman, Carmen Bodino, Christine Steyer, Claudia Hommel, Daniel Drew Fase, Kimberly Mann, Lynda Gordon, Patrick Davis, Johnson, David M Stephens, Evelyn Danner, Leona Zions, Nadine Susan Dennis, Vivian Beckford with Elizabeth Doyle at the piano Vorenkamp, Ruth Fuerst with Myron Silberstein at the piano Introduced by Claudia Hommel Special guests Jean-Claude Orfali and Cappy Kidd

Claudia I’m Old Fashioned & Claudia Lusty May Gabriel Fauré & adapted by Claudia Hommel Vivian It’s a Grand Night for Singing David Times of Your Life Roger Nichols & Bill Lane Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein II (State Fair) Arthur’s Theme , , Drew Singin’ in the Rain & and The Moon Was Yellow Fred E Ahlert & Edger Leslie One in a Million You Sam Dees Kim Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me & Evelyn The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Ewan MacColl Beth Smile Charlie Chaplin, John Turner & Geoff rey Parsons Christine Tonight & Carrie It’s a Good Day Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour Moon over Bourbon Street Les Champs-Elysees Mike Wilsh & Michael Deighan, Ruth My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon / James Thornton Pierre Delano, English translation by Patricia Spaeth The Man in the Moon is a ... ( Mame) Moonrise Philip Seward Dream a Little Dream of Me Vivian Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwant & Gus Kahn Sigmund Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein II (New Moon) Hang the Moon ( ) & Don Moonlit medley: Dan Hey, Good Lookin’ Hank Williams Moonlight in Vermont Blackburn & Suessdorf In the Still of the Night Moonlight Serenade Miller & Parish I Want to Go Home Cole Porter Moonlight Becomes You Van Heusen & Burke Nadine In the Wee Small Hours/ David Mann & Bob Hilliard Blue Moon Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart I’ll Be Seeing You / Sammy Fain & Kim Save the Best for Last Phil Galdston, Jon Lind & Wendy Waldman Memory & Trevor Nunn ( ) Susan When I Fall in Love Victor Young and Evelyn I Got the Sun in the Morning Irving ( Get Your Gun ) Moonfall (Mystery of Edwin Drood) Memories of You Eubie Blake & Andy Razaf Elizabeth Blame It on the Moon Elizabeth Doyle & Jim Rollins Leona The Best Things in Life Are Free Lynda The Moon and I , Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Yentl ) Ray Henderson/Buddy DeSylva & Les Brown No Moon at All / Dave Mann & Redd Evans It’s Only a Paper Moon , Billy Rose & EY Harburg No Moon / ( ) You Make Me Feel So Young Josef Myrow & Mack Gordon Mister Moon/ Traditional Christine & Jean-Claude Amazing Things JC Orfali & Christine Steyer By the Light of the Silvery Moon & Carmen Sunny Side of the Street Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields Caryn Stars and The Moon & Rod McKuen It’s Only A Paper Moon Harold Arlen, Billy Rose & E.Y. Harburg Bluebird of Happiness Sandor Harmati, Edward Hayman, New Words Maury Yeston Harry Parr-Davies Drew I’m Beginning to See The Light Nadine I’ve Got the World on a String/ Harold Arlen &Ted Koehler Don George, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington & Harry James Blue Skies / Susan Hallelujah I Love Him So Ray Charles Claudia The Sun and the Moon Charles Trenet, adapted by Patricia Spaeth Don That Lucky Old Sun Smith and Gillespie Myron, Ruth, Leona, Christine, Cappy Patrick Moondance Van Morrison Moon Medley arranged by David Shenton Moonlight Sonata Beethoven Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan Walking on the Moon Sting Kim Daniel (Michael) Elton John & Bernie Taupin . Clair de lune Claude Debussy Vivian He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand arranged by Margaret Bonds Moon River Patrick Everything Must Change Bernard Ighner Fly Me to the Moon Bart Howard Beth I Got the Sun in the Morning Irving Berlin Song to the Moon Antonin Dvorak & Jaroslav Kvapil (Rusalka) That’s Amore Harry Warren & Jack Brooks jazz recitals in the 2000s. The late musician part of her repertoire. Vivian has sung with the ABOUT OUR PERFORMERS and teacher Gwen Pippin inspired Patrick to University of Chicago chorus and has enjoyed Hommel and sing with Songshop. As a sing out his “crazy” by performing in many of several years of singing and performing with BETH HALEVY studied voice and member of Chicago Cabaret Professionals she her We-Haven’t-Quit-Our-Day-Job-Yet recitals. SongShop. acting in ; performed in regional has appeared at Victory Gardens Theater, the He has formed a new musical partnership with ------theatres in Alabama, Chicago, and New Park West, and Davenport’s. Caryn is board musician Sami Scot to participate in her Still York, including leading roles in The It’s your turn to join SongShop president and a vocalist for Acts Of Kindness Crazy After All These Years in 2015 and many Boyfriend, , Oklahoma, Once upon for more live concerts! Cabaret (www.aokcabaret.org) bringing the art of her 3 Minute in the Spotlight shows. He a Mattress , and There’s a Girl in My Soup . www.songshoplive.com of cabaret to new audiences while helping local regularly sings at Davenport’s Piano Bar open Beth took a break from theatre to pursue a nonprofi t organizations. In addition to cabaret, mic and similar venues. career in law, and now returns to her fi rst love, performing. When not singing, Beth she enjoys singing with the female a cappella RUTH FUERST : Our very own Dr Ruth is a teaches English as a Foreign Language, quartet, Route 66 (@Route66sings). Caryn is psychotherapist by day. By night, she dispenses SPECIAL THANKS TO our spends time with friends and family, and a member of Actors Equity Association and her wisdom on stage. Along with Carol audience, and to: explores foreign places. has been seen in many Chicago area theater Weston and Arlene Armstrong, Ruth created productions. She and her husband Craig live in and appeared in Life is… and Thank You for Susanne Baker, director of DePaul CARMEN BODINO. As her father would say, Carmen was “my only daughter Wilmette with their two daughters, Anna and the Music , initially at Davenports, and now University School of Music, Gina. Caryn’s solo CD, Journey, is about her at senior centers around Chicagoland. Ruth Community Music Division where who was born singing not crying”. Microbiologist turned cabaret singer, she path to motherhood and is available at her live has appeared in several Rotary International SongShop is home events. Cabarets and Songshop shows at Cyrano’s, the brought her solo début to Davenport’s in Lynda Gordon for underwriting our CHRISTINE STEYER, soprano, recipient Jazz Showcase, etc. She débuted at Davenport’s 2013 with Here’s To Life! Her musical May 4 concert here at the Chopin. of the 2018 American Prize Chicago Oratorio in April 2015 her fi rst solo show Wake Up experience ranges from church choirs to Ruth Fuerst and Lynda Gordon for Award and 2011 Johnny Mercer Award, Steyer and Dream , under the music direction of Bob Classic Guitar, and cabaret in diff erent hosting our many Saturday sessions is acclaimed for her portrayals of the title Moreen. Her second solo show— The Carousel venues in Chicago, Paris and Croatia via Nadine Vorenkamp for collecting role in Madama Butterfl y and Violetta in La of Time — also with Bob Moreen, was a hugely SongShop. Making a diff erence through Traviata . Since 2000, she was a chorister and successful 50th anniversary love song. Her third wonderful prizes for our raffl es self-expression in musical storytelling is sang several small roles in 40 productions at show at Davenport’s: You Gotta Be Kidding in Additional SongShop pianists & coaches: what keeps her going. She is grateful to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her recitals feature 2017 was unabashedly progressively partisan. Bobby Schiff , Mark Burnell, Phil Caldwell, voice teachers/coaches and her audience for Philip Seward, and Wydetta Carter listening. Special mention to the Chicago Russian, Spanish and American music. She SUSAN E. DENNIS has been singing collaborated with poets and composers to create Do you have a piano at home? Paris Cabaret Connexion 2018 that brought , jazz and classical songs for Six Songs for Soprano and is currently working Consider a host for a her back to stage after fi ve years of absence. 20 years professionally. Her repertoire includes She is a member of the Chicago Cabaret with pianist Jean-Claude Orfali on a book , Sondheim, Bernstein, Mozart, future SongShop salon concert! Professionals. of original cabaret songs. Steyer is President Strauss, Gilbert & Sullivan, Villa -Lobos. CARRIE HEDGES joined Claudia of the new arts alliance Working in Concert She most recently played the role of Heidi and Artistic Director of its Bellissima Opera, Schiller in the Harper College production of Hommel’s SongShop in September 2010 About SONGSHOP after retiring from her position as a Staff including realization of The Transcendence . Susan holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Triptych (three new operas exploring our shared Performance from Northwestern University. By Claudia Hommel’s SongShop , an Attorney with the U.S. District Court. Carrie made her debut at Davenport’s Piano humanity) and “Opera in the Classroom” that day she teaches Vocal Techniques at Elmhurst ongoing weekly workshop, off ers has brought music to over 23,000 students in College, Harper College, is choir director at Bar and Cabaret in the Chicago Cabaret theatre and music students, novices Professional’s 2011 Holiday Cabaret and under-served areas. Upcoming engagements Lord of Life Lutheran church, and Artistic and professionals, the opportunity include concerts with Orfali, UK Tour of the Director of Bravissimo Vocal Ensemble. appeared in CCP’s Strut Your Stuff in 2014. to strengthen and deepen how they She performed in the Rotary Near South’s musical Persuasion, the Chicago Paris Cabaret VIVIAN BECKFORD is a native of approach, interpret, and communicate Broadway on the Cusp! and Broadway Connexion Tour de France and Schubert Queens, NY. After graduating from Hunter meaning in a song. SongShop is open for the Hoi Polloi . In 2013, she performed Festival in Oak Park. Steyer teaches voice privately and is an adjunct faculty member at College with an RN and BS degree, she began to all singers and takes place Tuesday her one-woman show Songs in the Key her professional life as a nurse. Later, she of Oz at Daystar Center. She has been Concordia University in River Forest. transitioned into elementary school teaching evenings at the DePaul School of Music and many Saturday afternoons in Hyde heard also at Cyrano’s Bistrot, the Jazz CLAUDIA HOMMEL . Born in Paris, in the Public School System of New York raised in Detroit, and seasoned in New York, Park. To join us, simply call Claudia at Showcase, DePaul School of Music, and City for 35 years. In 1999 Vivian began her Piano Forte and in SongShop Salon House Claudia moved to Chicago to “do the work.” 773.509.9360. formal music training at Singers Forum, then Concerts. She sings in the University of She specializes in international classical and Mannes and The New School of Music. She Chicago Chorus and serves on the Board theatre songs and chanson . Projects include has performed arias in opera scenes, such as Your tax-deductible donations (payable to Working in Concert) can be earmarked of the Chicago Children’s Choir. She was Vocal Canvas concerts (with Elizabeth Doyle) Handel’s Orlando , Mozart’s The Marriage of for museums and arts centers; the crossover to the SongShop Scholarship Fund to President of the International Wizard of Oz Figaro and La Clemenza Di Tito , Menotti’s Club from 2010 to 2017. She was an active Jazz Fauré Project; master classes in song provide many singers with fi nancial The Old Woman and The Thief to name a few. participant in the fi rst Chicago Paris Cabaret interpretation; and French-based school She sings in church choirs and choral groups aid to continue their professional Connexion in September 2017. programs. Claudia invites her fans to Cabaret performing oratorios like Handel’s Messiah , development and the production of our CARYN CAFFARELLI is grateful InTourludes (and the Cabaret Connexion) to Brahms’ German Requiem and solos in SongShop Live concerts. THANK YOU! France. She is an active member of the actors’ Vivaldi’s Gloria . Spirituals are very much a for the opportunity to work with Claudia unions and is on faculty at the DePaul School the Ride of your Life, Life at Home, Friends Connexion in 2017 in Paris as a principal adventurous and accomplished pianist” of Music Community Music Division. Under & Lovers, the SongShop Coloring Book, 24 pianist and came to Chicago for the second and by Aaron Hunt of NewCity Stage as an the Maison Clobert rubric, she has recorded Hours , and at Davenport’s for CCP’s S trut exchange in 2018. He will lead a workshop “expert accompanist,” Myron has enjoyed fi ve CDs and the Vocal Canvas fi lm. She is Your Stuff and most recently his début show for the third exchange in Paris in September. a career as a solo pianist, accompanist, proud to have founded the Chicago Cabaret with Carol Weston I’ll Take Romance . www.jean-claudeorfali.com composer, and educator for nearly 30 years. Professionals (CCP), SongShop, and Cabaret ELIZABETH DOYLE, singer, pianist, DR. KIMBERLY MANN spends her days He won the borsa di studio at the 1991 Connexion with so many like-minded lyricist, composer, has performed across the supporting infants and toddlers that become Giornate Musicali Festival, made a full- performers. She now serves as Executive and Europe. Her musicals have involved in the child welfare system. About length European debut in 1992, and a New Director of Working in Concert. been widely produced, most recently, Sleepy 8 years ago, a desire to achieve better work/ York debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie www.workinginconcert.org Hollow this year in and Burnham’s life balance led her to explore voice classes Hall in 1993. His discography includes DANIEL JOHNSON is a bi-coastal regional Dream last June in Chicago. Dank Haus in through the Beverly Arts Center. Kim has recordings for Connoisseur Society, Naxos, theatre actor relocated to Chicago. Trained Chicago has presented her acclaimed solo been involved in choirs since her days as an and Centaur Records. A lifelong advocate of professionally at the American Conservatory German shows. She regularly sings and plays undergraduate at the University of Illinois in underrepresented repertoire, he has recorded Theatre in San Francisco, he performed on with music historian Charles Troy, dramatic Urbana. She joined SongShop in 2015. This is by Peter Mennin, Norman Lloyd and Vincent the West Coast and on tour before a stint of book reviewer Jenny Riddle, singer-songwriter her 5 th performance with SongShop. Persichetti. He has served as staff accompanist for the annual Classical Singer Magazine nearly two decades based in . Megon McDonough and Parisian chanteuse LEONA ZIONS . LeeZee’s fi rst gig at 3½ His musical roles include Franklin in 1776 , Claudia Hommel. Elizabeth was a featured Convention since 2009, was resident music years of age was singing on Horn & Hardart’s director of Chicago Opera Vanguard from Mooney in Anything Goes , and Charles guest on the late Marian McPartland’s NPR radio show! Six years of Glee Club led by in Pippin . He toured nationally with John program Piano Jazz and her compositions 2009 to 2011, and was nominated for a Jeff Yip Harburg’s pal Charlotte Hochman; seat- Award in music direction in 2011. He also Davidson in the Music Man and debuted have been heard on BBC and Dutch radio. mate was mezzo soprano Martina Arroya (I off Broadway as the comic lead in the 1988 New York engagements have included the composes extensively for concert performance got the solos, she got the career). Marriage, and musical theatre. revival of Cole Porter’s Leave It to Me . He Metropolitan Room and ASCAP new music children and leads in regional Pajama Game is known locally for his cabaret act, Wilde & showcases. Upcoming performanaces include and Girl Crazy . Directed/choreographed Bye, NADINE VORENKAMP has performed Woolley: Cole Porter and his cohorts. the Elkhart Jazz Festival in June with Charles Bye Birdie in the Catskills, shades of Dirty on some of the world’s most prestigious DAVID M. STEPHENS . After 35 years Troy and David Edelfelt, the September Dancing . Many years with Marjorie Eliot’s stages including Germany’s Hamburg Opera of entertaining as a magician and circus Cabaret Connexion Tour de France, the Bart Parlor Entertainment in Harlem. Transplanted House, New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theater, clown in the Metro NYC area, David moved Howard Foundation songwriting workshop to Chicago and found CCP and SongShop. the American Opera Center, Houston Opera to Chicagoland 5 years ago and, under the and concert in Iowa and Café Sabarsky in Venues: Davenport’s for Opportunity Center, and Dallas Opera. Her dynamic infl uence of his spouse Dan Johnson, is NYC with Claudia Hommel. Her two CDs, Knocks , CCP’s Holiday and Strut Your Stuff vocals and musical versatility are evident transitioning to the art of singing. A frequent Elizabeth Doyle and Time Flies are available at showcases; Cyrano’s Bistrot, DePaul, the Jazz whether singing a smoky jazz standard, participant in Songshop, his musical infl uences cdbaby.com and iTunes. For sheet music and Showcase, Pianoforte, and Daystar where she an aria from The Magic Flute , or the role lean towards jazz, pop and R&B (with a touch more info: www.elizabethdoylemusic.com told all in her solo show Life in a Nutshell. of “Christine” in of the Opera . of Broadway). He has performed at showcases EVELYN DANNER . Vocalist/actor/ Café Universel was a highlight of the Singers Selected in 2000 to participate in the National and open mics around Chicagoland. In 2016 he wardrobe mistress/teacher: costumer at the Jazz Workshop in Paris in 2014. Cabaret Symposium, she trained with cabaret debuted in CCP’s “Strut Your Stuff ” showcase Goodman by day, professional performer by luminaries Margaret Whiting and Julie Wilson. LYNDA GORDON studied theater at Nadine has headlined at the Vittum Theater, and premiered his fi rst solo show The Times of night. Evelyn has been with Chicago’s Black Northwestern, graduated with a BA in My Life in March at Davenport’s. Ensemble Theater for more than 25 years, Green Dolphin Street, Davenport’s, The Big Education from U of M and then received an House, Luciano’s, Carmine’s, Jazz Showcase, DREW FASE. For over 20 years Drew has singing, dancing, acting and most recently MBA from Loyola. Before returning to her Miraculous Wardrobe Mistress. With more Mayne Stage and the Three Arts Club,sharing been playing piano in the 17-piece big band fi rst love—the Stage—she enjoyed being a the stage with renowned pianists Willie Glen Ellyn Jazz Ensemble which he took over than 20 musical productions to her credit, Ms. parent, a travel consultant and a fundraiser Danner has portrayed the legendary jazz great Pickens, Bobby Schiff , Jeremy Kahn , Chuck directing in 2004, perfomring in the Glen Ellyn for the Children’s Research Foundation. Larkin and Damien Espinosa, as well as the parks during the summer. He also attends Ella Fitzgerald in four diff erent productions. Since 2012, she has appeared in several She serves in the music ministry of her home Union League Club of Chicago’s Big Band. Tritone Jazz Camp in Door County where he SongShop Live concerts including her solo United Artists’ Alliance released her holiday has ventured from behind the piano to stand at church, Covenant Faith Church of God and is set Love Notes—a Musical Memoir . Lynda a member of Choral Thunder Vocal Ensemble. CDs and produced concerts with jazz giants the mic and sing. He continues this practice at has sung in Rotary Club productions at the Ernie Adams, Henry Johnson, Larry Gray and open mics around town and now as a member JEAN-CLAUDE ORFALI (direct from Polo Café, and in the CCP’s Strut Your Stuff John Moulder to support charitable causes of SongShop. His CD Tonight the Moon Paris) has participated in many international and Merry Measures at Davenport’s. In such as Children’s Oncology Services, Inc., Belongs to You is available at today’s concert. events and piano concerts. Pianist, composer, October 2015, she debuted her cabaret show the Breaking Bread Ministries, the LaSalle DON HOFFMAN is a practicing oral conductor, Jean-Claude comes from a family accompanied by Bob Senior Center, and now Working in Concert . surgeon who has always found solace in of musicians. For many years he has played in Moreen at Piano Forte followed by Are We Paris venues such as Le George V, le Plaza- There Yet?—a Madcap Musical Escapade in PATRICK DAVIS loves to croon and belt, singing. Don has participated in various whether jazz, cabaret, rock, pop or R&B. A singing groups since childhood, studies voice Athénée et le Bristol. He appears regularly at December of 2018. Her most cherished role is the oldest Parisian artistic cabaret Lapin Agile. starring as “Granny” when she sings with her former church choir singer, his admiration with Mary Ann Beatty. When not sculpting in for singing was reawakened in 2003 thanks clay, he gets great satisfaction interpreting the He performs as a solo pianist, as part of small grandchildren Louisa and James. jazz groups and also leads Parisian Big Band to vocal instructor and mentor Elsa Harris rhythms and lyrics of the American Songbook. MYRON SILBERSTEIN. Acclaimed and support from his family. He performed He has sung in SongShop productions of Take “BB15”. He has composed and performed for by Paul Snook of Fanfare as “a deeply fi lm as well. He joined Chicago Paris Cabaret in Harris House of Music’s Xmas, gospel &