Starring Anna Palermo, Lina Koutrakos (director), Beckie Menzie (music director). Join Anna Palermo for an evening of self discovery through a musical concert. With songs by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kander and Ebb, The Beatles, Johnny Mercer, and more! With Beckie Menzie on piano and Irwin Berkowitz on percussion.
Anna Palermo is Chicago’s upcoming star in the Cabaret scene. Anna is a cabaret performer and has a BFA in Musical Theatre. She is a single mother of two who put her career on hold until the boys got older. Anna started up again in 2014 and worked up to her performance of her show, Powerful Women in Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series for up and coming artists.
Anna grew up in a little town outside of Savannah, Georgia. She began singing and dancing at the age of ten. She performed in countless musicals, pageants, and Shakespeare competitions. Anna has studied at Greenville Fine Arts Center High School in Greenville, SC, with the late, Michael V. Rice. She also had the opportunity to compete on Lincoln Center stage for the English Speaking Unions Shakespeare Competition two years in a row. Her path lead her to Boston Conservatory where she earned a BFA in Musical Theatre. One of her highlights in Boston was working with Spiro Veloudos at the Publick Theatre.
Once Anna graduated she moved to Hoboken, NJ, and began auditioning in New York. While in New York, Anna worked with Discovery Health Channel on the reality show, Buff Brides, danced in a Kings of Leon video, sang the National Anthem at Meadowlands for the NJ Nets, and worked on student films and theatre.
Anna then made her move to the Midwest and now resides in Chicago. She has appeared in national commercials and performs in Chicago's cabaret scene. Beckie Menzie is Anna's music director and mentor. She has also had the honor of coaching with Lina Koutrakas, K.T. Sullivan, Sally Mayes, Karen Mason, Amanda McBroom, Lucy Arnez, Faith Prince, and Rick Jensen. Anna also has been on the other side of the table interning at O'connor Casting and PR Casting learning a tremendous amount about the acting business.
Anna also has a love for fitness. She has been a personal trainer for 19 years. She had her own studio while living in Hoboken. After moving to Chicago, she began working independently, as well as at the ever popular, East Bank Club.
For more information, please visit
https://annapalermosings.com/home.
An award winning concert artist, Beckie Menzie has appeared at some of the nation’s top nightclubs and concert venues including the legendary Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Birdland in New York, Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, The Ravinia Festival and Park West, as well as at concert halls and art series across the country. Hailed by Chicago’s WGN Radio as “one of the city’s finest cabaret performers,” Beckie is a three time winner of Chicago’s After Dark Award for Outstanding Cabaret Artist.
As one of cabaret’s most in demand entertainers, Beckie was featured in Michael Feinstein’s “Now & Then” Series for her Carnegie Hall debut. She has been a featured performer at many of the Mabel Mercer Cabaret Conventions in New York, The Hamptons and in Chicago, as well as many performances for the Chicago Humanities Festival, where she has served as a performer, a director and musical director.
Beckie has two acclaimed solo CD’s, Real Emotional Girl and Heart & Soul, that have received national airplay. Both are an eclectic mix of classic ballads, standard jazz favorites as well as her own original songs. Cabaret Scenes Magazine called Real Emotional Girl “one of the year’s finest recordings.” Beckie is also an award-winning songwriter.
She performs regularly with Tom Michael, and as a duo they are recipients of the After Dark Award for Outstanding Cabaret Artist. She performs regularly with Tom Michael and as a duo they have toured their many concerts across the country, including Carnegie Hall’s 100th birthday celebration for Cole Porter, they’ve performed with the Rich Daniel’s City Light’s Orchestra and headlined with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and many other symphonies with their holiday show. Beckie is also one third of the GIRLS LIKE US group that includes Laura Freeman and Marianne Murphy Orland who entertain sell out audiences across the Midwest. Beckie is an award winning songwriter who coaches Musical musical talent across the country.
From swing to torch songs, Beckie’s interpretive style, rich smoky voice and inventive piano stylings rank her among the best nightclub entertainers in the country. Hers is a talent that not only warms but breaks your heart.
For more information, please visit
https://beckiemenzie.com/about/
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