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 & 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 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 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. A multi-hyphenate before Chicago Cabaret Professional’s 2011 Holiday the . He fell under CLAUDIA HOMMEL. Singer, actor she was out of grade school. As a kid, she was Cabaret. She performed in the Rotary Near a spell—cast by Claudia Hommel, and her and coach. Born in Paris, raised in Detroit, putting on shows in her basement and inviting South’s benefits Broadway on the Cusp! in cabaret cadre of SongShoppers. Turns out that and seasoned in New York, Claudia moved the neighbors. “I auditioned all the acts, 2013 and in Broadway for the Hoi Polloi Jim really does love standards. Away from the to Chicago to “do the work”. She is proud directed, wrote the shows and built the sets.” earlier this April. In November 2013, Carrie office, he sings with the DePaul University to have founded the Chicago Cabaret She lists Mahalia Jackson and Karen Carpenter performed her one-woman show, Songs in the Community Chorus and has appeared in Professionals and SongShop with so many as influences.She performed her one-woman Key of Oz, at Daystar Center. She also sings SongShop shows at Cyrano’s, Jazz Showcase, like-minded performers. Member of the SAG- show Just a Girl and a Piano at the Harold in the University of Chicago Chorus. Carrie Little Bucharest, and Daystar Center. Jim AFTRA and Actors’ Equity, on faculty at the Washington Library Center and has shared the is President of the International Wizard of Oz performed most recently with Jo Rainey at DePaul School of Music Community Music stage with Ruth Fuerst and Carol Weston in Club and serves on the Board of the Chicago Davenport’s in Taking A Chance on Love, and Division, she tours nationally and to France Life is…Snapshots in Song and Thank You For Children’s Choir. with John Bucchino at Stage 773. with her concerts and masterclasses. Claudia The Music at Davenport’s Cabaret. She has DANIEL JOHNSON is a bi-coastal JO RAINEY is the stage name of Joanne invites you to join Keri Chryst, Maja Savić of appeared in the Chicago Cabaret Professionals regional theatre actor recently relocated Pakieser, packaging expert by day, Diva by Croatia, and herself for a Jazz Tour & Singers Holiday Cabaret, Opportunity Knocks and to Chicago. Trained professionally at the night and world traveler whenever she can. Workshop in Paris, June 2014! Visit her Strut Your Stuff showcases and SongShop American Conservatory Theatre in San A classically-trained musician who also grew website cabaret-paree.com. Live concerts at the legendary Jazz Showcase, Francisco, he performed on the West Coast and up singing to Peggy Lee, Motown and Rock Cyrano’s and Daystar. She is a member of the PHILIP SEWARD has been playing on tour before a stint of nearly two decades n Roll, Jo loves the cabaret repertoire for the Chicago Cabaret Professionals. the piano since a small child, joining the based in . His musical roles eclectic story-telling mix that allows her to cabaret, music theatre, and opera stages as he BETH HALEVY. After working as a include Franklin in 1776, Mooney in Anything draw from all of her musical loves. She recently got older. He has been known to sing a mix corporate attorney and an attorney for the Goes and Charles in Pippin. He toured performed with Jim Anderson in Taking a of standards and original works in the most Chicago Public Schools, Beth has returned nationally with John Davidson in The Music Chance on Love at Davenport’s Cabaret, and intimate of settings. His short opera, How To to her first love—performing. She enjoys Man and debuted off-Broadway as the comic with Philip Seward in A Weekend in the Country Date A Coloratura was named a finalist in the doing cabaret because its intimacy lets her lead in the 1988 revival of Cole Porter’s Leave with Sondheim at the Daystar Center. A National Opera Association chamber opera develop a link with her audience; and she loves It To Me. He just completed his third season member of the Chicago Cabaret Professionals, competition and Light Opera Works Second the nurturing atmosphere of SongShop and singing his own Christmas Cabaret: Santa Jo has performed at Little Bucharest, Cyrano’s Stage recently premiered his one-act opera the interpretive insights and encouragement Songs. http://songsfortheseason.wordpress. Bistrot, the Underground Wonder Bar, the Polo Eve. To listen to his music or purchase a CD, provided by Claudia Hommel and the other com/santa-songs/he Café, Old Town School of Folk Music and the visit iTunes or philipseward.com. members of the group. When she isn’t singing, Jazz Showcase. You can also see her perform DON HOFFMAN is a practicing oral Beth teaches English as a Foreign Language, Balinese gamelan around the country with the ADRIENNE MINNES. Teacher by day surgeon who has always found solace in spends time with friends and family, and Indonesian Dance of Illinois. at Amundsen High School, soulful singer singing. Don has participated in various singing travels to foreign places (another love). by night, Adrienne’s performances include groups since childhood, studies voice with KIRSTEN BELZER. After years of multiple solo appearances at Northeastern CARMEN BODINO. Making a difference Mary Ann Beatty, and has recently found a classical singing, Kirsten wants to liven things University Black History Month celebration is what keeps Carmen going. Her musical great deal of satisfaction in the cabaret venue. up and begin cabaret. When she’s not singing, and several SongShop concerts. path flows from The Blessed Sacrament Choir Interpretation of the rhythms and lyrics of The she spends her time as a psychotherapist in AMY LECHELT-BASTA, aka Amy in Manila to Bach in St Louis, Chicago’s American Songbook is quite challenging but the Loop and Hyde Park. Kirsten has been a Fabulous, is happy to share the stage again Community Renewal Chorus concerts/tours most gratifying. soloist and member of the Chicago Chorale, in the Midwest states and socialist countries, Northwestern University Chorale, and has sung with SongShop! In her much younger JEFF McGOWAN has been in the sales/ The Lofradez Chorale, Holy Name Cathedral with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus and the ingenue-years, some of her fav roles included, culinary industry for over 16 years, currently Filipino Singers and The Women Schola; Too Hot to Handel Messiah Chorus. Morales/A Chorus Line, Nancy/Oliver, and for Kraft Foods. He’s performed with the member, Chicago Cabaret Professionals; Cinderella with the Second City Children’s Southern University A&M Chorus and Male LEONA ZIONS. First gig happens at 3½ performed at Cyrano’s, DePaul University and Theater. Her most coveted current role is that Ensemble under the direction of Charles Lloyd, years of age singing “You Must have been a Daystar. She made her solo début with Here’s of Grandma! In addition, AF continues to Jr. His passion for music and theater started as Beautiful Baby” on Horn & Hardart’s radio To Life at Davenport’s September 2013. do some acting in industrial films, produces/ a young child when listening and observing his show! Six years of Glee Club led by Yip commentates fashion shows, personal CARRIE HEDGES retired from her mom Adrienne Minnes singing and performing Harburg’s pal Charlotte Hochman; seat-mate wardrobe styling, and various other musings. position as a Staff Attorney with the U.S. District in the play Godspell. was mezzo soprano Martina Arroya …I got the Amy has performed at Cyrano’s, Davenports, Court and joined SongShop in September 2010. solos, she got the career. Marriage, children and JIM ANDERSON. With a transistor radio Jazz Showcase and The Venue at 1550. Mark Since then, she has appeared in SongShop leads in regional Pajama Game and Girl Crazy. tucked under his pillow, Jim often fell asleep you calendars for her October 16th cabaret shows at Cyrano’s Bistrot, the Jazz Showcase, Directed/choreographed Bye, Bye Birdie in the listening to Chicago DJ’s “play the hits,” show, C’est si Bon, at Davenports! and Daystar Center. Carrie made her debut at Catskills, shades of “Dirty Dancing”. 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