Menzie & Michael Present Broadway, Our Way Starting 4/4

One of Chicago's favorite duos, After Dark Award Winners Beckie Menzie and Tom Michael, celebrate the songs of the Great White Way in their new show Broadway, Our Way. Both Broadway enthusiasts, the show will feature music from classic musicals such as West Side Story, South Pacific and Carousel to the more recent Chicago and Wicked. But don't expect to hear the songs as they were in the original shows. Beckie and Tom will sing Broadway their way!

Broadway Our Way will have a limited run of 4 performances only at Davenport's (1383 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago), Saturday's in April (4, 11, 18, & 25 at 8pm. There is a $18 cover charge and two-drink minimum. Due to the high demand, reservations are highly recommended by calling 773.278.1830.

Their imaginative musical twists on jazz favorites, standards, contemporary pop, Broadway show tunes and film gems, have won them audience and critical acclaim across the country and around the globe. Menzie & Michael's diverse touring schedule has recently taken them to some very prestigious stages, including New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Town Hall. They have also been included in New York's Cabaret Scenes Magazine's "Top Ten Cabaret Acts" for five consecutive years.

Their recording efforts have been praised by Billboard Magazine, BackStage, Show Business Weekly and Playbill and their latest CD, "Better Two-gether," available on iTunes and amazon.com, has been hailed by critics as "magic," "sensational," and "...the year's best recording."

Named "among the best performers in Chicago" by Rick Kogan of WGN Radio, Menzie & Michael have appeared at The Auditorium Theatre, Park West, The Pritzker Stage at Millenium Park, The Empire Room and Maxim's. They have also been featured at numerous Chicago Humanities Festival ASCAP concerts.

Menzie has extensive theater credits working with some of the most acclaimed and respected productions in the Midwest. Beckie has served as musical director for Marriott Lincolnshire (2008's production of Nunsense) and The Wagon Wheel, where she also starred in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. As a songwriter (along with collaborator Cheri Coons) has been featured in the Pegasus Players' Female Problems The Musical and the musical revue The Ho Ho Ho Show at the Eastlight Theatre, Chicago's Pump Room and Lake Geneva.

Beckie also serves on the faculty for Northwestern University's musical theatre program where her students have included Broadway stars Heather Headley of The Lion King and Kate Schindle, recently of Legally Blonde.
For further information visit their web sites at
www.beckiemenzie.com and www.tommichael.net.