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Take the Ride of Your Life, Part One Friday, April 25, 2014 Thank You for the Music Directed by Claudia Hommel and Pianist Philip Seward SongShop Live Take the ride of a lifetime! presents “Let’s leave it all behind and make a story worthy Take the Ride of a song!” of Your Life Call 3 1 2 - 5 5 9 - 9 4 9 5 Lynda Gordon Travel Consultant Specialists in the Art of Travel [email protected] THE JAZZ TOUR AND SINGERS’ WORKSHOP June 3 – June 10, 2014 Train & travel with three international cabaret and jazz professionals in Paris Keri Chryst Claudia Hommel Maja Savić American-born, Parisienne A favorite from Art Institute Croatian born. Trained in since 2001, U.S. Cultural of Chicago to Musée de Europe, performing with Ambassador to Africa. Montmartre, Paris born, prominent jazz musician Zé Master's in Jazz Pedagogy Chicago-based performer is Eduardo in Portugal. Founder from Northwestern Univ. the co-founder of Chicago JAZZart, the Association for Founder of Jazz Vocal Cabaret Professionals and Promoting Jazz Music and Academy & Arts Embassy founder/director of Culture. Teaches at Mikrofon International in Paris. SongShop Live. Star School in Zagreb. Singers from around the world gather in Paris with three master teachers for a week to explore vocalSinging technique, is a way jazz of literacy escaping. in song, It's interpretation another world. of lyrics, I'm andno longerperformance on earth. skills. Friday, April 25th Saturday, April 26th With outings and tours to famous jazz and cabaret haunts, music exhibits and hidden gems, —Edith Piaf from 7:00pm - 9:00pm the weekSingersJazzWorkshop.com kicks off with a performance by the workshop leaders and culminates with a public from 7:30pm - 9:30pm performance at the legendary Au Franc Pinot by YOU the participants! Talk with Claudia at PianoForte Studios at The Venue at Daystar to learn more! www.songshoplive.com www.SingersJazzWorkshop.com Take the Ride of Your Life, Part One Friday, April 25, 2014 Thank You for the Music Directed by Claudia Hommel and pianist Philip Seward Amy Lechelt-Basta, Arlene Armstrong, Carrie Hedges, Daniel Johnson, Jeff McGowan, Jo Rainey, Leona Zions, Lynda Gordon, Patricia Salinski, Ruth Fuerst, & Vivian Beckford Jeff Magic to Do Stephen Schwartz (from Pippin) Dan In Your Custom-Made RV Gus Edwards & Daniel Johnson Ruth Welcome to Holiday Inn Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields Patricia Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Brendan Graham Lynda What More Do I Need Stephen Sondheim (from Saturday Night) Arlene Detour Ahead Johnny Frigo Leona Sentimental Journey Bud Green, Les Brown & Ben Homer Amy Allez-Vous-En Cole Porter RUTH FUERST, ARLENE ARMSTRONG, CAROL WESTON with NICK SULA, Music Director Ne me quitte pas Jacques Brel, Arnie Johnston Louise CLOUTIER, Artistic Consultant. Support from SONGSHOP Vivian My Man’s Gone Now George Gershwin Friday, May 2 at 8:00 PM Jo Follow Me John Denver DAVENPORT’S CABARET Dan Big Rock Candy Mountain Harry McClintock, as performed by 1383 N. Milwaukee Ave Burl Ives & Pete Seeger Cover: $12 and 2 drink minimum. RSVPs strongly encouraged Carrie You Came a Long Way John Benson Brooks & Bob Russell Phone 773-278-1830 or www.davenportspianobar.com from St. Louis Patricia Lies of Handsome Men Francesca Blumenthal Amy Just One of Those Things Cole Porter Arlene Destination Moon Roy Alfred & Marvin Fisher SPECIAL THANKS TO About SONGSHOP Piano Maestro Philip Seward Jeff In the Wee Small Hours Bob Hilliard & David Mann Claudia Hommel’s hands-on workshop is an opportunity for theatre and music Lynda On My Way to You Michel LeGrand, Alan & Marilyn Bergman Daystar Center’s Amanda Neely and staff students, amateurs and professionals, to strengthen and deepen how they Ruth Good Thing He Can’t Christine Lavin PianoForte’s Thomas Zoells and staff Read My Mind approach, interpret, and communicate meaning in a song. ~ SongShop is open Carrie You Belong to Me Pee Wee King, Chilton Price & Redd Stewart Assistance by Laley Lippard and Cappy to all singers and takes place Tuesday Kidd. evenings at DePaul School of Music and Leona Where Do You Start Johnny Mendel, Alan & Marilyn Bergman Saturday afternoons in the South Loop. Additional SongShop pianists & coaches: Find yourself in song at a place Jo & Philip Move On Stephen Sondheim (Sunday in the Park Bob Moreen, Elizabeth Doyle, George with George) that feels like home. Howe, Louise Cloutier, and Wydetta Vivian I Could Have Danced All Night Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe Carter www.songshoplive.com years of musical madness with Marjorie Eliot’s along the way he took a wrong turn and ended Take the Ride of Your Life, Part Two Parlor Entertainment in Harlem. Transplanted up in the Cabaret world of Chicago. Ron also to Chicago and found CCP and SongShop. sang barbershop for several years and earned a Saturday, April 26th, 2014 Venues: Davenport’s for Opportunity Knocks, gold medal in international chorus competition CCP’s Holiday and Strut Your Stuff showcases; in Nashville in 2001 with the Northbrook New Directed by Claudia Hommel Cyrano’s Bistrot, DePaul, the Jazz Showcase, Tradition chorus. and the Venue at Daystar. Catch Leona’s solo and pianist Philip Seward set Life in a Nutshell (debuted 11/16/13) on her RUTH FUERST. Our very own Dr Ruth, FaceBook page. Worth taking a look/listen! a real live psychotherapist by day, is the keeper of a trove of very witty and sometimes Adrienne Minnes, Beth Halevy, Carmen Bodino, Claudia Hommel, LYNDA GORDON, After a long hiatus, wicked lyrics by her late father Jim Fuerst. By Don Hoffman, Jim Anderson, Kirsten Belzer, & Ron Anderson this former Northwestern University theater night, she’s taken to dispensing her wisdom major, alumna of the University of Michigan on the stage with Carol Weston and Arlene School of Education and graduate of the Armstrong. Their two shows Life is… and Loyola University MBA program, has returned Thank You for the Music played to large and Ron Take Me Home, Country Road John Denver to her first love: performing and singing. For enthusiastic audiences. Thank You for the many years, her gigs featured performances as Music will be presented again at Davenports Claudia Mon manège à moi Noël Glanzberg & Jean Constantin parent, independent travel consultant, and fund on Friday May 2, at 8PM.. Ruth has Don Bless the Broken Road Marcus Hummon, Bobby Boyd raiser for the Children’s Research Foundation. also appeared several times in the Rotary and Jeff Hanna Most recently she appeared in SongShop Live International Fundraiser Annual Cabarets, concerts: Flying, Something to Talk About, CCP’s Strut Your Stuff, Holiday cabarets, and Adrienne Killing Me Softly with his Song Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel Life at Home, and her solo set Love Notes—A several SongShop shows at Cyrano’s, Jazz Carmen The Duck and the Kangaroo Edward Lear & Elton Hayes Musuical Memoir. She sang in Broadway on Showcase, Little Bucharest, and Daystar. the Cusp and Broadway for the Hoi Polloi Beth Time Heals Everything Jerry Herman (from Mack and at the Polo Cafe for the Rotary Club and at VIVIAN BECKFORD is a native of Mabel) Davenport’s in the CCP showcase Strut Your Queens, NY. After graduating from Hunter Kirsten Fast Car Tracy Chapman Stuff. She is on the Board of the Chicago College with an RN and BS degree, she began Ron Long and Winding Road Lennon & McCartney Cabaret Professionals and stars in her role as her professional life as a nurse. Later, she Gramma Lynda singing with her grandchildren transitioned into elementary school teaching Carmen Detour Ahead Johnny Frigo, with help by Herb Louisa and James! in the Public School System of New York City Ellis & Lou Carter for 35 years. In 1999 Vivian began her formal PATRICIA RANGER SALINSKI. Adrienne Too Close for Comfort Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener & music training at Singers Forum, then Mannes, George Weiss Property manager, consultant and guest The New School of Music. Since that time she speaker, Patricia says, “Happy songs, sad has performed arias in opera scenes, such as Beth I’m Flying Carolyn Leigh & Mark Charlap songs….. they all make us feel and know Handel’s Orlando, Mozart’s The Marriage of (from Peter Pan) we are alive!” She has performed at The Figaro and La Clemenza Di Tito, Menotti’s Auditorium Theater in the chorus of Too Jim Paris through the Window Edward Kleban & Glenn Slater The Old Woman and The Thief to name a few. Hot To Handel, Symphony Center in Siamsa She also sings in church choirs and choral Claudia Cabdriver’s Nightmare Joseph Kosma & Jacques Prévert, naGael, community theater as Doris McAfee/ adapted by C. Hommel Bye, Bye Birdie, Cookie/Rumors and Trudy/ groups preforming oratorios like Handel’s Social Security. She is an active member of Messiah, Brahms’ German Requiem and solos Don The Secret of Life James Taylor in Vivaldi’s Gloria. Spirituals are very much Old St. Pat’s Choir and The Irish Heritage Kirsten Look Beth Nielsen Chapman and Andy Center. She is married to the love of her a part of her repertoire. Vivian studies voice Bey life, Theodore Salinski and is the mother of with Bruce Tammen and is a member of the University of Chicago chorus. Jim You Can’t Take the Color Dick Gallagher & Mark six accomplished children and “one perfect Out of Colorado Waldrop grandchild”. All Reprise of Country Roads John Denver RON ANDERSON. After spending SIGN OUR MAILING LIST! 25 years as a folk singer in the haunts of Princeton, Greenwich Village and Liverpool, visit SONGSHOPLIVE.COM Ron slung his guitar on his back and headed or call 773-509-9360 to join us. back to his native Minnesota. Somewhere OUR PERFORMERS ARLENE ARMSTRONG. Actor- Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret in the despite his mother’s efforts to turn him on to Director-Musician.
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