Pride Arts Center Presents Year-End Cabaret

Pride Films and Plays is delighted to welcome members of the Chicago Cabaret Professionals to the Broadway as we introduce another venue for great music on Chicago's north side. On Friday, December 30, the singers perform works that look back on 2016 and ahead to 2017 in 525,600 Minutes: A Cabaret.

The host for the evening is Denise McGowan Tracy, with Beckie Menzie at the piano. Cabaret singers confirmed for the evening are Joan Curto, Tom Michael, Hilary Feldman, Anna Besserud, Julia Hawkins, Amy Cole, Cynthia Cleary, Patrick Davis, and Stephen Edwards. They will be joined by musical theater performers Jordan Phelps, currently one of the stars of PFP's production of PRISCILLA: Queen of the Desert, Peter Rugar, Sarah L. Conrad, Filipe Carrasco, and Joseph Alvey. And there will be a special performance guitarist Derek Duleba. The evening is produced by PFP Board Members Elizabeth Bertucci and Robert Bailey.

VIP tickets for the evening are $35 and include the performance and a reception of prosecco and sweets. General admission tickets are $25. Tickets may be purchased at www.pridefilmsandplays.com or by calling 1 800 737 0984. The Broadway, part of Pride Arts Center, is at 4139 N. Broadway.

PFP hopes that Pride Arts Center will continue to host cabaret and other musical events in The Broadway, an 85 seat theater at 4139 N. Broadway, on Sundays and dark nights when regular programming in the space permits.

ABOUT PRIDE ARTS CENTER

The Pride Arts Center consists of two performance spaces - The Buena at 4147 N. Broadway which has 50 seats, and The Broadway at 4139 N. Broadway which has 85 seats. Since taking over the lease on August 1, PAC has become an important part of the arts environment in our Buena Park neighborhood and beyond, providing free space for events including After Orlando, staged readings responding to the Orlando tragedy, Broken Noses Bechdol Fest and other community meetings and events. We have hosted performances by Red Tape Theater, Clock Productions, and Give A Thought Theater. Upcoming tenants in 2017 include Walkabout Theater, New American Folk Theater, Cor Productions, Underscore Music Theater, 20% Productions, About Face Youth Theater, Another Door Productions, and of course the Pride Films and Plays productions of For The Love Of (or the Roller Derby Play) and The Nance.

For more information about space at Pride Arts Center, visit www.prideartscenter.com, or www.pridefilmsandplays.com.

ABOUT PRIDE FILMS AND PLAYS

Pride Films and Plays changes lives through the generation of diverse new work (or work that is new to Chicago) with LGBTQ+ characters or themes that is essential viewing for all audiences. We accomplish this mission through fully-staged productions, writing contests and staged readings, film screenings, and special events. We foster long term relationships with artists to create programming that is as diverse, unique, and complex as the community we represent. In 2015, Huffington Post called PFP "A powerful and empowering entity." The company acquired its two performance spaces at 4139 and 4147 N. Broadway in July 2016, renaming the spaces the Pride Arts Center.

Pride Films and Plays is supported by The MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard Driehaus Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council, City of Chicago's City Arts Fund, the Elliott Fredland Charitable Trust, Proud to Run, the AmazonSmile Foundation, Arts and Business Foundation, Tap Root Foundation and Alphawood Foundation.

PFP is a member of the Smart Growth Program of the Chicago Community Trust. Pride Films and Plays is a member of the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois and The League of Chicago Theatres.