Lampkin Music Group Presents Hollis Resnik In NYE Concert

Lampkin Music Group is set to present ten-time Jeff Award winner and "First Lady of Chicago Musical Theatre" Hollis Resnik in a special New Year's Eve cabaret performance. Resnik will be joined by Chicago favorite and fellow "Candide" collaborator Doug Peck, who will serve as music director, as Chicago audiences ring in the New Year with their favorite leading lady. The intimate evening will take place on December 31st at 8PM at the newly renovated Cabaret Room in Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont in Chicago.

"Splendid." " Soulful." "Sultry." " Superb."

Long celebrated by critics and audiences alike, Chicago's Leading Lady recently received rave reviews for her performance as Carlotta in the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's production of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies". Resnik won her ninth Joseph Jefferson Award this past November for her comedic turn as the Old Woman in the Goodman Theatre's production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide", a performance for which she was also lauded with a Helen Hayes Award. Curtain Up raved, "[Resnik] is a brilliant comic, gifted singer, elegant dancer, and utterly hilarious."

Resnik gives similar devotion to the Midwestern city that has long been home to some of her greatest turns on stage and screen. "I've done everything from Moliére to Mame ... the Chicago scene has allowed me to do a bit of everything. It's a very embracing atmosphere," she recently told Chicago press.

Tickets for the New Year's Eve concert are $75 and include a champagne toast and dessert. Tickets are on sale to the public and may be purchased by visiting www.Stage773.com.

A % of ticket sales will be donated to Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, Season of Concern and Pride Films and Plays.

ABOUT Hollis Resnik

Hollis Resnik is a ten-time Jeff Award Winner and seventeen-time nominee, having just won for her role as The Old Woman in the Goodman Theatre's CANDIDE. She is the 2011 recipient of the Helen Hayes award for CANDIDE at Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. Ms. Resnik has also won three After Dark Awards and two Sarah Siddons Awards. She has starred in the National Tours of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE and LES MISERABLES. Off -Broadway, she starred in WINGS. She has appeared in films such as Little Big Top, Backdraft and The Untouchables and on ABC TV's Cupid. Additional Chicago credits include the Ravinia Festival's productions of SWEENEY TODD and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, the Court Theatre's MAN OF LA MANCHA, the Marriott Theatre's HAIRSPRAY, and the Midwest premiere of GREY GARDENS at Northlight Theatre.

Her recording "Make Someone Happy" is available worldwide online.

ABOUT Doug Peck

The winner of five Jeff Awards for Best Musical Direction, having just won for Court Theatre's production of PORGY AND BESS his work has also been heard at Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Long Wharf Theatre, Writers' Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Northlight Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Porchlight Music Theatre, Peninsula Players Theatre, and Ravinia Festival. Favorite productions include CAROLINE, OR CHANGE; CAROUSEL; MAN OF LA MANCHA; ANIMAL CRACKERS; FIORELLO!; OH, COWARD!; FIDDLER ON THE ROOF; SHENANDOAH; CABARET; WINGS; HELLO AGAIN; GUYS AND DOLLS; GREY GARDENS; THE MOST HAPPY FELLA; and INTO THE WOODS. Peck can be heard on the following CDs: Bright Young People: The Songs of Noël Coward, Foiled Again: Live and Frank Galati and Stephen Flaherty's Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein. Peck is a graduate of Northwestern University.

ABOUT LAMPKIN MUSIC GROUP

Lampkin Music Group has presented concerts and cabarets across the country featuring some of the top artists in the country. Performers have included Tony winners Donna McKechnie, Alice Ripley and Hinton Battle as well as Alexandra Billings, Audrey Morris, Karen Mason, Suzanne Palmer, Linda Clifford, Spider Saloff and Billy Stritch.