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Chicago cabaret artists Anita Kallen and Catherine Thomson (HERstoryMusicalShows.com) head to Oregon, Illinois on Friday, September 18th to prove once again that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” In a special evening (7 PM) performance at the Coliseum Museum of Art, Antiques & Americana with music director Beckie Menzie at the piano, they celebrate – in song and HERstory – the rabble-rousing pioneers who won the right to vote for the women of America and those fighting to preserve it today. With music by Sondheim, Lennon & McCartney, the Sherman Brothers, Parton, Schwartz, Porter, and others, Catherine and Anita weave in the story of women’s suffrage from second-class citizenship at the nation’s founding to the nail-biting final days in the fight for ratification of the 19th Amendment and to present-day efforts to preserve and maximize the power of women voting. Purchase tickets online at www.cmaaa.org/events.html. In this midterm election year, Anita and Catherine are proud to celebrate the power of the VOTE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsrxQS_qM0