annual gala concert 2019 The Chicago Paris Cabaret 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 Jerome Kern & Johnny Mercer 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 Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Drew Singin’ in the Rain Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed Christopher Cross and Peter Allen 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 Bernie Taupin & Elton John Evelyn The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Ewan MacColl Beth Smile Charlie Chaplin, John Turner & Geoff rey Parsons Christine Tonight Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim Carrie It’s a Good Day Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour Moon over Bourbon Street Sting 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 ... Jerry Herman ( 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 ( Smash) Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman Don Moonlit medley: Dan Hey, Good Lookin’ Hank Williams Moonlight in Vermont Blackburn & Suessdorf In the Still of the Night Cole Porter 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 & Irving Kahal Kim Save the Best for Last Phil Galdston, Jon Lind & Wendy Waldman Memory Andrew Lloyd Webber & Trevor Nunn ( Cats) Susan When I Fall in Love Victor Young and Edward Heyman Evelyn I Got the Sun in the Morning Irving Berlin ( Annie Get Your Gun ) Moonfall Rupert Holmes (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 Michel Legrand, Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Yentl ) Ray Henderson/Buddy DeSylva & Les Brown No Moon at All / Dave Mann & Redd Evans It’s Only a Paper Moon Harold Arlen, Billy Rose & EY Harburg No Moon / Maury Yeston ( Titanic ) 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 Gus Edwards & Edward Madden Carmen Sunny Side of the Street Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields Caryn Stars and The Moon Jason Robert Brown If You Go Away Jacques Brel & 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 /Irving Berlin 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 Henry Mancini 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 New York; 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, Company, 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 Musical Theatre, jazz and classical songs for Six Songs for Soprano and is currently working Consider becoming 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 Kurt Weill, 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 Follies .