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A Night at the Oscars: The William and Greta Wiley Flory Concert - Chicago Humanities Festival

A Night at the Oscars: The William and Greta Wiley Flory Concert

ABOUT 

  • ABOUT Doug Peck

    Doug Peck is one of Chicago's leading musical directors, having won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Musical Direction for Court Theatre's production of Man of La Mancha. He is a proud Northwestern University graduate who also trained at Interlochen Center for the Arts. He resides in Chicago, where he is also active as a voice teacher, vocal coach, and cabaret pianist, most notably with the acclaimed vocal trio Foiled Again. Profile

  • ABOUT Robert Lindley

    Rob Lindley is a musical theatre actor and director. He is also active in the cabaret community directing, writing, and performing, where his work with vocal trio Foiled Again earned him a 2003 After Dark Award for Outstanding Cabaret Artist. Lindley's past performances include shows at Ravinia Festival, Writers' Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Light Opera Works, Bailiwick, Porchlight Music Theatre, and Lifeline Theatre.

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  • ABOUT Hollis Resnik

    Holly Resnik is an actor and singer whose recent credits include Candide at the Goodman, and Light in the Piazza at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. National tours include Les Miz, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In Chicago, she has performed at Ravinia, the Marriott, Lyric Opera, Northlight, and the Court Theatre. Resnik also has her own solo CD entitled Make Someone Happy.

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  • ABOUT Allison Bazarko

    Allison is thrilled to be back performing with Foiled Again for the Chicago Humanities Festival. As resident vocal arranger for Foiled Again, her critically acclaimed arrangements include songs from shows such as Hit Factory: Songs of the Brill Building, Old Black Magic: The Music of Harold Arlen, and Dark Café Days: The Songs of Joni Mitchell.

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  • ABOUT E Faye Butler

    E Faye Butler is a Chicago singer and performer. Recent Chicago credits include Ella and Dinah Was at Northlight Theatre, as well as Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray (Marriott Lincolnshire) and the title role in Caroline, or Change (Court Theatre).

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  • ABOUT Anne Sheridan Smith

    Anne Sheridan Smith (singer w/Foiled Again) is honored to be a part of the Chicago Humanities Festival singing Academy Award winning songs with an all-star cast of singers. Anne sings with the band in the late night show, The Game Show Show…and Stuff!, produced around Chicago. She recently appeared as Mae West in the play Dirty Blonde, a Bohemian Ensemble production at Theater Wit.

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  • ABOUT Ross Lehman

    Ross Lehman just returned from The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival where he played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He started his Chicago career at the Goodman, where he appeared in The Rover, Wings, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Jeff Award).

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Seventy-seven songs, and every one a winner. Discover (and rediscover) seventy-seven consecutive years of American music through the varied songs that have garnered the Academy Award—in a one-night-only, five-hour spectacular. The first act, “Days of Wine and Roses,” features gems from 1934 to 1970, tunes that have become part of the Great American Songbook and every crooner’s dream material: “Over the Rainbow,” “When You Wish upon a Star,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” and more. The second act, “A Whole New World,” captures the era’s striking shifts in songwriting, from the Shaft theme and “The Way We Were” to “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.” The biggest and brightest stars of the Chicago theater and cabaret scenes, including E. Faye Butler, Ross Lehman, Hollis Resnik, and the trio Foiled Again, as well as special guests and lively surprises throughout, conspire to make an ambitious tour of American musical history a singular, don’t-miss experience. We anticipate a casual, festive concert atmosphere and a snack-length intermission.

The team behind this Chicago Humanities Festival adventure is Rob Lindley and Doug Peck, partners in life and art, who brought you last year’s Follies. Peck (Porgy and Bess and Caroline, or Change) is the winner of four Jeff Awards for Best Musical Direction and Lindley, who won the 2010 Jeff Award for his performance in Oh, Coward!, is a director, improviser, actor, and cabaret performer. Their work has been seen and heard at CHF, Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Porchlight, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and the Marriott Lincolnshire.

Read the CHF blog series on Academy Award-winning songs.

blog Blog Series Part One: "Moon River"

blog Blog Series Part Two: "Secret Love"

blog Blog Series Part Three: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

blog Blog Series Part Four: "The Oscar That Got Away"

blog Blog Series Part Five: "The Way We Were"

This program is generously underwritten by a generous gift from Greta Wiley Flory in memory of her late husband Bill, a longtime friend and supporter of the Festival.

Partnership support is provided by the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.

Advance tickets are no longer available online or by phone for this program. Tickets will be available at the door. A $5 surcharge applies to all door tickets.

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