After launching the organization’s first Emerging Artist Showcase in 2022, the Showcase returns this year with the 4th Emerging Artist Showcase to be held on August 14 at 7:30pm at Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago. 

This concert features five members of Chicago Cabaret Professionals who are finalists in the Showcase; competing to receive the DeniseTomasello Cabaret Scholarship Award to support the production of their first solo, cabaret show. The 2025 Emerging Artists are: Aurora Jeanne Boe, Christopher Cayari, Lauren Lassen, Mrs. Yuka Layme and Helen Smith.  Each artist will perform a three-song set, and a panel of judges will choose the winner of the $1000 scholarship. The concert will also feature a performance by the winner of the 2024 Emerging Artist Showcase, Ken Fobs, who premiered his first solo cabaret show in December of 2024.

The Showcase culminates a nearly two-month long process with the finalists receiving one-on-one coaching by members of Chicago Cabaret Professionals, who serve as mentors.

This year, mentors include Anne Pringle Burnell, Hilary Feldman, Cathy Glickman, Carla Gordon and Mchael Joseph Mitchell.  The artists are also offered an opportunity to have rehearsals with Music Director,Mark Burnell.

General admission is $25 and a VIP table for two is $80.