The Sarah Siddons Society Invites you to
A Second Swell Soireé
Monday, January 20, 2020
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Le Piano - 6970 N Glenwood - Chicago
Join us at this very charming spot, which will transport you to Le Rive Gauche and learn about what we have planned for 2020. Nick Sula is putting together an evening of song featuring some of Chicago’s brightest performers.
Nick Sula
Nick Sula is a pianist, arranger, and award-winning music director for theater and cabaret. Theater credits include Porchlight Music Theatre, Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, Pride Films and Plays, Black Button Eyes Productions, Chicago Theatre Workshop, Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Nick has performed as music director, arranger, or accompanist for vocalists and with cabaret performers including Denise Tomasello, Deborah Darr, Karen Mason, and André DeShields at venues such as Davenport’s, Petterino’s, Stage 773, Victory Gardens, and the Park West. He is an instructor, music director, and vocal coach at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
Sophie Grimm will be the MC for the Event.
Originally a Twin Cities performer (Ellsworth, WI) alongside her family, Colleen Raye, Steve, Trey, Jennifer and Reed Grimm, Sophie is now a Chicago-based vocalist and actor, with credits including Paulette in Paramount Theater's LEGALLY BLONDE, Trevor’s Mom in Writers Theater's heartwarming, TREVOR, the musical, based on the 1994 Academy Award winning Best Short Film which then created the Trevor Project (a national 24 hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth - 1-866-488-7386), Desdemona in the critically acclaimed OTHELLO: THE REMIX (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), LES MISERABLES (Paramount Theatre), FREDERICK (Chicago Children's Theatre), THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Drury Lane Oakbrook) and I LOVE LUCY: LIVE (Broadway Playhouse), as well as across the country in jazz, cabaret and concert settings. Teaching and assisting are also passions of Sophie's, and she enjoys making them a part of daily life. Practice true (self) love every day. www.SophieGrimm.com
Will Lidke, Sara Reinecke and Katherine Lee Bourné will be performing at the event and were both 2014 Sarah Siddons Society Scholarship recipients.
Hailing from the Twin Cities, Will moved to Chicago for his BFA in Acting from the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Since graduating in 2015, he has appeared in: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Theo Ubique); A Christmas Carol, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Little Shop of Horrors, Saturday Night Fever (Drury Lane); Violet (Griffin Theater); as well as understudying with Chicago Shakespeare, Mercury Theater and Griffin Theater. TV credits: Chicago PD, Chicago Justice (NBC). He is represented by Shirley Hamilton Inc.
Katherine Lee Bourné
2017 Sarah Siddons Scholarship Recipient Upon receiving this distinction from the Sarah Siddons Society, Katherine was simultaneously launched into the thriving world of the professional Chicago theatre community. Recent credits include Beauty and the Beast and Newsies (Paramount Theatre); Mamma Mia! and A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre); Broadway in Chicago’s Heartbreak Hotel (Broadway Playhouse); Marie Christine (BoHo Theatre); New Faces Sing Broadway 1959 (Porchlight Music Theatre); and Songs for a New World (Blank Theatre Company). Katherine is a graduate of Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University’s Musical Theatre Dance program helmed by Jane Lanier.
Sara Reinecke is a Chicago-based actor by way of Charlotte, North Carolina. She earned her BFA in Musical Theatre from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in 2015, where she was honored with receiving the Sarah Siddons Scholarship in 2014. Since then she has been consistently working her way around theaters in the Midwest. Some of her favorite credits include Hold-Me-Touch-Me in The Producers, Margot in Legally Blonde, Ali in Mamma Mia! and Elf at Paramount Theatre, Wendy Jo in Footloose and Ugly Duckling in Shrek at Marriott Theatre, Judy in 9 to 5 at Firebrand Theatre, Jan in Grease at Kansas City Starlight, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Tantrum Theatre, and Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray at Little Theatre on the Square. She is currently playing a Silly Girl in Beauty and the Beast at the Paramount Theatre.
Tickets are $45 which includes a cocktail of your choice and some lovely bites. ($50 at the door)