Get ready to “fall in love with love” again this February. A star trio from the City of Lights Theatre & Cabaret are here all the way from distant Aurora, Illinois to remind us about all of the good (and not so good) feelings that love can bring into our lives. They are geared up to deliver an evening of popular songs from musicals such as Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me, Kate, West Side Story, and A Chorus Line, and several other hits from the standard musical theatre literature. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and if you don't get swept off your feet, you'll at least be reminded of why "love at first sight" just might not be your thing.
Colleen Bruton graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the first graduate of the Lyric Theatre program. Her favorite roles she's played are Ilona Ritter (She Loves Me), Polly Baker (Crazy for You), Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Clara Johnson (The Light in the Piazza). Most recently, Colleen starred as the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods with Big Noise Theatre and as Gertrude McFuzz in a Dr. Seuss Opera with JAM Orchestra.
Grace Currie is a music director, soprano, and marketer specializing in choral music, musical theatre, and storytelling. Grace is Executive Director and Co-Founder of City of Lights Theatre & Cabaret in Aurora, Illinois. Some of Grace's favorite roles in community and educational theatre include Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Sandy (Grease), and Hodel (Fiddler on the Roof).
Mary Currie is in her third year of teaching at Arbor Park Middle School where she works in School District 145 as the vocal music teacher. She teaches music to grades 5-8 and directs the Panther Choir.
Colleen, Grace and Mary are alumni of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They serve on the artistic staff and perform with CITY OF LIGHTS Theatre & Cabaret in Aurora, Illinois.
Matthew has become a regular performer at Davenport’s since playing his first cabaret there in Spring of ‘22 (he prepared for character by watching Liza Manelli’s 1972 classic Cabaret! three or four times). Now he chases cabaret’s electric atmosphere, and is on a mission to present a new cabaret at Davenport’s every month of 2024: the YEAR of Cabaret!