SAVE THE SKOKIE THEATRE
The Skokie Theatre is being threatened with foreclosure. In order to continue presenting great aspiring artists in concert and presenting business of music seminars, we need your financial help through donations.
THE NORTH SUBURBAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE SKOKIE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is accepting donations to make this goal a reality.
Make checks payable:
N.S.B.D.F. of the S.C. of C.
(please put SKOKIE THEATRE in memo line)
Mail checks to:
SKOKIE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
PO BOX 106
Skokie, Il 60077
The North Suburban Business Development Foundation is a 501 ©3 entity
August 6 • 8:00pm
The Edge Comedy Club
Tickets: $15 in advance / $20 at the door
August 7 • 8:00pm
"Lisa Roti - Live in Concert"
"Roti is for real, bringing an understated sensuality to what she sings, and with grace and a smile, at that. Her sultry, laid-back delivery masks an uncanny knowledge of the songs she sings, and did we mention her intonation and diction are to die for? This is one to take to the bank." - TIMEOUT CHICAGO, CRITIC'S CHOICE
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
August 8 • 7:30pm
STREETCORNER SYMPHONY starring Layne "DOC" LaPage
Layne "DOC" LaPage is an Actor and Singer who also happens to be a Minister. Come hear his Rich, BOOMING VOICE as he entertains and educates you with his fascinating history and trivia about each of the songs he sings. He starts with "Some Enchanted Evening" from "South Pacific", then works his way through Sinatra, Martin, and Bennett. Takes on a little "My Fair Lady", "Fiddler On The Roof","Carousel", and "Oklahoma". As he nears the end of his performance, a little Armstrong, Durante and Humperdinck are tossed in. Then he finishes with a rousing Gospel tune from the legendary Elvis Presley.
The "DOC" in his name allows him to prescribe a little medicine for the audience. This medicine does have certain side effects such as a new spring in your step, happiness in your heart and a song in your soul. Come to the StreetCorner at the Skokie Theater Music Foundation, get your prescription and enjoy the Symphony!!!
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
August 13 • 8:00pm
Jimmy Niteclub in Music of the Fifties
Jimmy Niteclub celebrates Doo Wop with "Music of the Fifties.
Tickets:$20 adv / $25 at door
August 14 • 8:00pm
A Song For You starring Terre Cohen and Rich Maisel
Featuring Terre Cohen and Rich Maisel
Recently returned from their European tour, the ever-versatile singer Terre Cohen and amazing musician Rich Maisel entertain you with songs and stories from her ridiculously long and varied career.
Tickets: $20 adv / $25 at door
August 15 • 2:00pm
STREETCORNER SYMPHONY starring Layne "DOC" LaPage
Featuring Layne "DOC" LaPage and his amazing pianist, Joshua Smith
Layne "DOC" LaPage is an Actor and Singer who also happens to be a Minister. Come hear his Rich, BOOMING voice as he entertains and educates you with his fascinating history and trivia about each of the songs he sings. He starts with "Some Enchanted Evening" from "South Pacific", then goes down memory lane with some Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson. Then as an added treat, his masterful pianist, Mr. Joshua Smith joins him for a trip down Crooner Lane. Mr. Sinatra and his "Ratpack" buddies would have given their left arm to have this young man as their pianist. A few original songs are thrown in and then he finishes with a rousing Gospel tune from the legendary Elvis Presley.
The "DOC" in his name allows him to prescribe a little medicine for the audience. This medicine does have certain side affects such as a new spring in your step, happiness in your heart and a song in your soul. Come to the StreetCorner at the Skokie Theater Music Foundation, get your prescription and enjoy the Symphony!!!
Tickets: $20 adv / $25 at door
August 15 • 7:00pm
Beckie Menzie Has No Standards
Starring:
Beckie Menzie with special guest Tom Michael
Spend an evening with Chicago’s acclaimed musical performer Beckie Menzie as she showcases her non-standard way of twisting some of your favorite popular songs. Beckie will also feature some contemporary songs that she thinks should be standards, as well as a couple of her own originals.
The Chicago Tribune has called Beckie “indispensable to Chicago cabaret,” and her arrangements have been hailed by critics for their remarkable re-imaginings of the works of the American Popular song.
As one of cabarets’ most in demand entertainers, Beckie made her Carnegie Hall debut in Michael Feinstein’s “Now & Then” Series. She has also appeared at the New York’s legendary Lincoln Center, Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre and Park West, as well as at concert halls and art series across the country.
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
August 20 • 8:00pm
DIVA MOMENTS! starring Gillian Kelly and Claire Bigley
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
As she prepares to leave the Chicago area, Gillian Kelly celebrates her career as an opera singer, musical theatre performer, and cabaret artist with her favorite Diva Moments, including some of her own! Claire Bigley, a pianist who turns the piano into an orchestra, joins our resident Diva for this Farewell Tour de Force program of arias (The Habanera, Musetta’s Waltz, Vissi D’Arte), jazz standards (Lover Come Back to Me, Treat Me Rough, Lullaby of Birdland), and Broadway showstoppers (The Diva’s Lament, Send in the Clowns, With One Look!)
August 21 • 8:00pm
Three Cat Media presents "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF CASS ELLIOT"
Mama Cass Elliott is honored in "Dream a Little Dream of Cass Elliott" on August 21 at 8:00pm. Cass Elliott's work extends far beyond her time as "Mama" with the Mamas and the Papas. This show celebrates this unforgettable voice of the 1960's.
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
August 22 • 2:00pm
Love Is Here To Stay with Eddy Patay, Shirlee Todd and Larisa Frumker
Eddy Patay, Shirlee Todd and Larisa Frumker, delight in presenting a program of, seldom heard, love songs. Our show is: "Love is here to stay".
Shirlee Todd is the lead singer of the Jazzmer band. A popular group performing Jazz and Klezmer music.
Larisa Frumker, piano, is the one who makes every song performed a delicacy.
Eddy Patay, voice, Well known to his Chicago audiences makes every song a story told with music.
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
August 22 • 7:30pm
La Tragédie de Carmen
Featuring:
Tina Pappademos, Carmen
Luis Antonio Galvez, Don Jose
Cynthia Zimmerman, Micaela
Karrel Bernardo, Escamillo
Jennifer McCabe, Accompanist
Roy Cornelius Smith, Director
“La Tragedie de Carmen,” awarded the 1984 special Tony Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre, is English stage director Peter Brook’s highly distilled, 80-minute twist of Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 story and George Bizet’s 1875 opera. Brook and his collaborators (composer-conductor Marius Constant and playwright Jean-Claude Carrière) reduced Carmen to what they perceived as its basic elements and reconstituted the opera, so that the story seems at once familiar and alien: “We are doing a new investigation of [Carmen] - hence the new title - and what we have done is to separate its central core from the rest of the material, like boning a fish. Everything is trimmed away to focus on the intense interaction, the tragedy of four people.” It is basically the big hits of the opera without the chorus or big ensembles.
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door