Carla Gorden is 'On the Money' at Davenport's Cabaret

 

 
 
Carla Gordon works in two professions that are as different as night and day. Her "day job" is as professor of financial planning at De Paul University. Her night job is as a cabaret  singer.  Gordon will present a musical show combining both of her chosen pursuits. She will star in a cabaret show called "On the Money…Songs About Everyone's Second Favorite Subject."  It will  be performed on September 7 and on September 14 at 7:00 PM at Davenport's Cabaret, 1383 North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. Phone: 773-278-1830. www.davenportspianobar.com).
 
Besides teaching Gordon also coaches people to pass the rigorous Certified Financial Planner Examination™. Says Gordon, "When I teach, it's important that I be entertaining, and when I entertain, I like my audience to learn something fun. I finally decided to do a cabaret show all about money. That way I could combine two of my greatest passions….and I bet I'm not the only person who really enjoys music and money!"   
 
"When I started researching songs about money for my show, I found over twelve thousand recordings. Then Bob Grimes, a grand old gent who is a sheet music archivist in San Francisco found some songs for me that were written way back in the early Twentieth Century.  There's a beautiful one called 'When I Leave the World Behind' by the amazing Irving Berlin that was written in 1915 that will close my show."
 
Songs in the show will include familiar ones like "We're In the Money," "Pennies from Heaven," and "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" But there will be some newer ones like Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" and "Money Can't Buy Me Love" by the Beatles. There'll even be some funny ones like "If My Nose Was Running Money, I'd Blow It All on You." 

"I'm delighted to have Beckie Menzie as my musical director. We will be performing tunes about being rich and being poor. I'll sing songs about money and love and even money and sex!"
 
Singer/songwriter Gordon performed Hotsie-Totsie—A Salute to Miss Sophie Tucker to sold out audiences at Davenport's. (This show will be encored at Maxim's on November 11, 2008.) Her original, inspirational ballad "The Voice In Your Heart" (CD available) closed the Cabaret Convention at Yale. Gordon has appeared at the Park West Theater and the Drury Lane Water Tower Place Theater with Chicago Cabaret Professionals on whose governing Board she serves.

On the Money…Songs About Everyone's Second Favorite Subject is being performed at Davenport's Cabaret, 1383 North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago on September 7 and on September 14 at 7:00 PM.  Phone: 773-278-1830  (www.davenportspianobar.com)

TICKETS: $15

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