has performed in many opera and operetta the Stars . Susan is on the Vocal Faculty at ensembles and recently played the role of Elmhurst University and Harper College Alice in The Secret Garden at PM&L theater and holds a Masters in Vocal Performance in Antioch. She toured France with the 3 rd from Northwestern. Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion. KYLE HUSTEDT a.k.a. Kylie Bear is a WORKING IN CONCERT Chicago-based cabaret entertainer, producer A performing arts collaboration and club owner. Classically trained in opera (Northwestern U), Kyle has toured nationally Delivering songs and stories and internationally. Founder of The Cabaret Up close and personal. Project in Chicago, he has produced hundreds of events for clubs, resorts, corporate and private clients, utilizing approximately 60 Forthcoming: artists annually for song, piano, vaudeville, FUTURE PERFECT —a full-length cirque and burlesque. His Feathered Beaus has opera follows a young girl Miranette’s received high praise for their handsome vocals, journey to discover the world beyond fl ashy costumes and presentations. As voice her enclosed and fearful community— teacher and coach, as owner of French-inspired premieres June 2021 at the Vittum Theater cabaret and burlesque club The Monocle in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a founding coordinator ON CALL-the COVID opera —a of Chicago Cabaret Week, Kyle works virtual online performance in Spring 2021. tirelessly to make a stronger, more diverse On Call is a short story of 6 pandemic musical product for the cabaret and nightlife healthcare workers sharing a Zoom call. market. www.cabaretproject.org CHICAGO PARIS CABARET Chicago-born SHARON WALTHAM , is CONNEXION —4th international known as Miss Sharon when singing jazz and conference, Chicago, August 23-26, 2021 blues. She’s been featured vocalist in trumpeter “The Girls and Boys of Summer” Yves Francois’ bands performing live and can CHICAGO CABARET STREET FEST , be heard on all his Delmark Records CDs to August 27-29, 2021 SongShop garden concert date. She became an ensemble member at Prop Theatr in 2012, co-produced, performed and About SONGSHOP contributed original songs and sketches for the September 26, 2020 annual Catzilla shows benefi tting Harmony Claudia Hommel’s SongShop, an House cat shelter. Co-founding member of the ongoing weekly workshop, offers musical group Improper Behavior. Currently a theatre and music students, novices Production by Claudia HOMMEL board member at Labrynth Arts Collective. She and professionals, the opportunity Music direction by Elizabeth DOYLE is wild about a certain cat Daddy and lives with to strengthen and deepen how we Hosted by Claudia Hommel & Cappy Kidd him and four or more cats near Albany Park. approach, interpret, and communicate SUSAN E. DENNIS has been singing meaning in a song. It’s your turn! in Albany Park, Chicago Broadway, jazz and classical songs for more Join us online to work on Song Text/ than 20 years. A member of CCNATS,she Subtext/Context. enjoys preparing students for college Bene tting the SongShop Scholarship Fund, auditions, vocal competitions and adjudicating Call Claudia at 773.509.9360 . a project of Working in Concert NFP aspiring singers. A member of Chicago www.songshoplive.com Cabaret Professionals, she has also been a soloist with New Millennium Orchestra, www.songshoplive.com Symphonic Pops Orchestra of Chicago, WANTED: A large room with piano in www.workinginconcert.org Navy Pier Pops Orchestra, Harper College which 6 singers have enough space to Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Festival safely sing one at a time. Orchestra, Sanfi lippo Foundation Christmas Concert series, and Opening Night Broadway Your tax-deductible donations (payable to Troupe. Musical theatre roles include Heidi Working in Concert) can be earmarked to Schiller in Follies , Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little the SongShop Scholarship Fund to provide Night Music , Mary Sunshine in Chicago , singers with fi nancial aid to continue their Rosebud in Mystery of Edwin Drood , Mabel professional development and the production in Pirates of Penzance and Irina in Lost in of our SongShop Live concerts. The Girls and Boys of Summer About our performers Community Music Division, recording artist on the Maison Clobert label, she is proud to have — a SongShop Live garden concert BARBARA SMITH started her career as a founded the Chicago Cabaret Professionals, guitar-playing folk singer and now includes jazz, SongShop, and the Chicago Paris Cabaret Music director Elizabeth Doyle at the keyboard. Barb Smith, Carrie blues, folk music and cabaret, at Davenport’s, Hedges, Christian Halvorsen, Claudia Hommel, Evelyn Danner, Kyle Connexion with so many like-minded Underground Wonder Bar, Rosa’s Lounge, performers. She serves as Executive Director of Hustedt, Jeni Schellenberg, Sharon Waltham and Susan E. Dennis Chief O’Neill’s to the Cliff Dwellers Club. Working in Concert. workinginconcert.org Winner of the 2018 Skokie Idol Contest, she participated in the 2014 and 2015 Singers Jazz ELIZABETH DOYLE, singer, pianist, Susan Workshops in Paris, the fi rst Chicago Paris lyricist, composer, has performed across the United States and Europe. Her musicals I Love Being Here with You Peggy Lee & Bill Schluger Cabaret Connexion in 2017, and has been an active organizer of the Cabaret Connexion have been widely produced, most recently, Sharon ever since. Retired from AT&T where she was Sleepy Hollow in California and Burnham’s Confessin’ the Blues KC Jay Hoo e McShann & Walter Brown responsible for Sales and Customer Service Dream in Chicago. Dank Haus in Chicago training, Barb holds a Master’s in English and has presented her acclaimed solo German Chris an has taught at Loyola University and Harper shows. She sings and plays regularly with Almost Like Being in Love Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II College. She serves on the board of Working In music historian Charles Troy, dramatic book ( Brigadoon) Concert as a facilitator and communicator. reviewer Jenny Riddle, singer-songwriter Megon McDonough, and chanteuse Claudia Being Alive Stephen Sondheim ( Company) CARRIE HEDGES joined SongShop in Hommel. Elizabeth was a featured guest on the 2010 after retiring from her position as a Staff Carrie late Marian McPartland’s NPR program Piano Attorney with the U.S. District Court. Carrie made Jazz and her compositions have been heard on Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin & E.Y. Harburg her debut at Davenport’s in the Chicago Cabaret BBC and Dutch radio. New York engagements Li le Drops of Rain Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg Professional’s 2011 Holiday Cabaret, appeared have included the Metropolitan Room and in CCP’s Strut Your Stuff in 2014 and Rotary Near Jeni ASCAP new music showcases. Recent 2019 South’s Broadway revues. In 2013, she debuted performances include the Elkhart Jazz Festival Fly Me to the Moon Bart Howard her one-woman show Songs in the Key of Oz at with Charles Troy and David Edelfelt, the Daystar Center. She has been heard at Cyrano’s Someone’s Been Sending Me Flowers David Baker & Sheldon Harnick Cabaret Connexion Tour de France, the Bart Bistrot, Jazz Showcase, DePaul School of Music, Howard Foundation songwriting workshop and Sharon Piano Forte, SongShop salon concerts, and all three concert in Iowa, and Café Sabarsky in NYC Sweet Sugar Daddy Sharon Waltham Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion conferences. with Claudia Hommel. Elizabeth Doyle and She sings in the University of Chicago Chorus and Susan Time Flies, sheet music and more info: www. serves on the Board of Chicago Children’s Choir. elizabethdoylemusic.com Stars and the Moon Jason Robert Brown She was President of the International Wizard of Oz Club from 2010 to 2017. EVELYN DANNER. Vocalist/actor/ Claudia wardrobe mistress/teacher: costumer at the CHRISTIAN HALVORSEN. Born in Staten The Girls of Summer Stephen Sondheim Goodman by day, professional performer by Island, New York, he sang in the Children’s night. Evelyn has been with Chicago’s Black Barb Choir at Our Lady Help of Christians as a child Ensemble Theater for more than 25 years, and dabbled in accordion in his teenage years. singing, dancing, acting and most recently I Got the Sun in the Morning It wasn’t until he was in his 30s that he found and the Moon at Night Irving Berlin ( Annie Get Your Gun) Miraculous Wardrobe Mistress. With more his voice, while working as General Manager of than 20 musical productions to her credit, Ms. Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan Gentry of Chicago. He is very fond of obscure Danner has portrayed the legendary jazz great Broadway show tunes because it’s not a solo Ella Fitzgerald in four diff erent productions. Kyle if everybody is singing with you. He sang Simple Gi s Aaron Copland She serves in the music ministry of her home as a featured soloist in Philadelphia at Jack church, Covenant Faith Church of God. Downey’s with Bob Bush at the piano. Laughing Ma ers Harold Crabtree JENI SCHELLENBERG ’s musical interests Claudia CLAUDIA HOMMEL. Born in Paris, raised began in school where she played clarinet, and in Detroit, and seasoned in New York, Claudia Que reste-t-il de nos amours Charles Trenet & Léo Chauliac after senior year was selected for the All-State moved to Chicago to “do the work.” She band at Interlochen Center for the Arts. She Evelyn specializes in international classical and theatre has traveled to the Far East, Canada and across songs and chanson . Projects include art-inspired the US as a member of several choirs and was It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling Micki Grant ( Don’t Bother Me, Vocal Canvas concerts (with Elizabeth Doyle); I Can’t Cope ) a soloist and member of the College of Lake the crossover Jazz Fauré Project ; master classes County women’s choir in a cultural exchange to Hurray for Love! Harold Arlen & Leo Robin in song interpretation; and French-based school China in 2013. With her BA in Music Education programs. Claudia invites her fans to France (Northeastern Illinois U) and Masters of with Cabaret InTourludes and the Cabaret Music Education (VanderCook College of Connexion. A member of the actors’ unions, Music), Voice and piano teacher, Jeni has taught on faculty at the DePaul School of Music music in the public schools for ten years. She