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Join us for a very special presentation as we elevate The Beaus experience by filling out our custom mash-ups with a band of drums (Tyler Core), bass (Aaron Mitter), and guitar (Tim Fitzgerald)! If you haven‘t been to a Beaus show in a while, this is the one to see.

Chicago cabaret artists Catherine Thomson and Anita Kallen, the HERstory duo, are thrilled to be returning to Skokie Theatre with a new show for 2024 - #3 in their HERstory series. Audiences will remember their past musical celebrations of the 19th Amendment & Voting Rights (HERstory I) and Trailblazing Women (HERstory II). This year Anita and Catherine are celebrating the famous and not-so-famous women songwriters who have contributed to Tin Pan Alley, the Great American Songbook, the Broadway canon, and contemporary popular music, with songs that span the decades. With music direction by the award-winning Beckie Menzie and percussion by Irwin Berkowitz, Anita and Catherine share songs by composers and lyricists from Carolyn Leigh, Dorothy Fields, and Dana Seusse, to Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Gloria Estefan, among others, and entertain audiences with inspiring stories of how these women became part of the soundtrack of our lives. Check out video clips from the show‘s debut: https://youtu.be/yE0I_RdSKEc Details and tickets here: https://gopher-halibut-ga77.squarespace.com/herstory and learn more about HERstory Musical Shows at Anita and Catherine’s website: HerstoryMusicalShows.com.

A founding member of Chicago Cabaret Professionals, Carol Weston was troubadour, teacher, and friend to so many of us. The Old Town School of Folk Music and Working In Concert invite you to honor Carol Weston‘s life and music on Sunday, August 4, 2024 at the OTS Szold Hall. The musical tribute will be based primarily on Carol’s repertoire. If you would like to offer your talents, please let us know your connection to Carol, and what you would like to contribute (a song, poem, a memory about Carol, instrumental piece, photos). Email Arlene Armstrong, Claudia Hommel and Ruth Fuerst at caroltribute@workinginconcert.org by June 15.

Anne & Mark Burnell celebrate 30 years of being married and making music together with songs and stories from their debut album Little Things We Do Together, to their current project, which shall be revealed!

The Big Gay Cabaret ALEXANDRA BILLINGS & HONEY WEST Performing together for the first time in 20 years! Friday/Saturday, August 9 & 10 at 8pm Tickets are $55/$65 Post Meet & Greet an additional $25. For the first time on 20 years Alexandra Billings and Honey West take the stage in a night full of songs, banter, stories, and laughs!

Denise Tomasello and her 17 piece orchestra will perform at Little Italy Festa on Taylor Street on the Peroni Main Stage. Come celebrate all that is great about Italy with Chicago‘s Queen of Cabaret!

Join Chicago‘s Cabaret Queen, Denise Tomasello, at VINCENT!

Celebrate Women‘s Equality Day with a free performance of HERstory: The 19th Amendment and the Power of the Vote! Thursday, August 22nd, 6:30 PM; College of Lake County, Auditorium A011, Grayslake, IL. Anita Kallen and Catherine Thomson (HERstoryMusicalShows.com) prove once again that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” 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, Anita and Catherine 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. In this presidential election year, join the HERstory duo to celebrate the power of the VOTE! Free admission; no registration required. Details: https://www.lakecountywomen.org/events/upcoming-lcwc-events/133-2024-08-womens-equality-day-celebration.html

A festival of song and spoken word curated by Beau O‘Reilly. Wendy Parman will sing original and cover songs plus a short reading from her work-in-progress "Fear of Singing." Chuck Larkin on piano. Singer/Songwriter Izzy Yellin follows with a set.

SAVE THE DATE: August 25, 2024 Sunday concert in a private River Forest garden Tickets: $45/ two for $70, including concert and reception Refreshments will be served. A song-full friendraiser of opera and cabaret. Details to come. Featuring Artists: Carolyn Broquet, Patrick Davis, Susan Dennis, Carla Gordon, Aaron Grace, Nicole Hoke, Russell Hoke, Claudia Hommel, Elisabeth Howard, Rosalind Hurwitz, Staci Kelley, Lauren Lassen, Cristina Marinescu, Dorian McCall, Ren Perez, Carl Ratner, Barbara Smith, Christine Steyer, Patricia Tyson and more.

Judi Mark celebrates her muse, the iconic Broadway triple threat star, Gwen Verdon who married choreographer Bob Fosse. In this show, Judi sings Gwen‘s songs from Damn Yankees, Chicago, Sweet Charity, Redhead and more, some especially written for Gwen. Judi is returning to Chicago, her home town after many years building her career in NYC performing in Off Broadway shows, Concert stages, film, TV and Cabaret while making her living creating and developing sequential dance programs in the city high schools and colleges. "Judi Mark and her musical cabaret are both charming, likable, and very reminiscent of a quality of benevolence once possessed by Gwen Verdon herself." -Broadway World "Performed with perfect on-target emotion. It is difficult to imagine a better performer than Mark to illustrate the icon‘s legacy." -Cabaret Scenes Tickets: $20 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/merely-marvelous-the-songs-of-gwen-verdon-tickets-915618177617?aff=ebdsoporgprofile