The combined gay choruses of Windy City Performing Arts continue its Silver 25th Anniversary Season with ‘Spectacular! Spectacular! Songs of the Silver Screen.’
Hollywood has a way of stamping music into the collective consciousness of American pop culture. Who would be able to hum the harrowing strains of ‘O Fortuna’ from Carl Orf’s ‘Carmina Burana’ if it wasn’t overused in countless movie previews? How many church choirs added ‘Hail Holy Queen’ to their repertoire following Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act? And who could forget how film immortalizes all kinds of singing actors—everyone from operetta star Jeanette MacDonald warbling ‘Indian Love Call’ in Rose Marie to Angela Lansbury hopping around as an animated teapot spouting ‘Be Our Guest’ in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Each of these moments will be recalled in ‘Spectacular! Spectacular! Songs of the Silver Screen,’ a one-night concert celebrating Hollywood by the combined gay choruses of Windy City Performing Arts. The concert continues Windy City Gay Chorus’ commemoration of its Silver 25th Anniversary Season and also features numbers performed by the Windy City Slickers and Unison: Windy City Lesbian & Gay Singers. Special guests for the concert include the Lakeside Pride Symphonic Band, the Joel Hall Dancers and Healthworks Theatre, which will be performing its acclaimed ‘Wizard of A.I.D.S.’ A portion of the concert proceeds will be donated to the Center on Halsted project.
So if your Hollywood musical tastes range from Broadway take-off, animated antics, serious Shakespearean drama to screwball comedy, ‘Spectacular! Spectacular! Songs of the Silver Screen’ offers something for everyone who has ever fallen in love with the movies.
‘Spectacular! Spectacular! Songs of the Silver Screen’ plays Saturday, April 3 at 8 p.m. at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport. Tickets are $15 to $24 and can be purchased at the Athenaeum Theatre box office or via Ticketmaster at (312) 902-1500 or www.ticketmaster.com. Groups of 10 or more receive a 15 percent discount. Portions of proceeds to benefit the Center on Halsted.