Suzanne Petri in "A Marvellous Party"in "A Marvellous Party" at Davenport's

Cabaret Artist Petri performing Saturday evenings in June, the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th at 10:30 pm in "A Marvellous Party" at DAVENPORT'S Piano Bar & Cabaret (1383 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL - 773-278-1830 - http://www.davenportspianobar.com/). Alan Bukowiecki is her extremely talented accompanist. There is a $15 cover charge.

Direct from engagements in "The Hairy Ape" and "Two Rooms" at American Theater Company and "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" and "The Shoemakers Holiday" at Chicago Shakespeare, Ms. Petri returns to cabaret with an evening of musical characters. Suzanne invites audience favorites to her gathering, welcoming back Marlene Dietrich, Beatrice Lillie, Edith Piaf, Noel Coward, Lotte Lenya, and Mrs. Wentworth -Brewster. She will conjure up some of her favorite roles including Hazel in "Tiny Island," Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Madame Hortense in "Zorba," Malvolio in "Twelfth Night," Lorraine Sheldon in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," and Bunny in " House of Blue Leaves.

Suzanne's specialties have always been American and European Cabaret from the song books of Coward, Sondheim, Porter, Brel and Weill in which she tells the story of the characters with the song. With this show she and director Daryl Nitz bring songs previously unheard in her shows at Davenport's plus old and new favorites. Songs include "Miss Otis Regrets," "Milord," "Surabaya Johnny," "The Ladies Who Lunch," "A Bar On the Piccola Marina" and of course, "I've Been To A Marvellous Party."

Suzanne recently appeared in Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" at American Theater Company, where she also presented "That Old Bilbao Moon; A Tribute to Kurt Weill" with Lisa McQueen at the piano, and a host of talented actors and singers, as well as "A Tribute To Rosemary Clooney" both at ATC and the Chicago Cultural Center. She also recently played Ellen Van Oss in Lee Blessing's "Two Rooms." This fall she played Stella in Carson Grace Becker's new play, "Book of Mercy" at Chicago Dramatists.

An actress, singer and director, Suzanne is an ensemble member of American Theater Company where she was seen as Meg in "A Lie Of The Mind" and Mrs. Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera." Favorite roles include Hazel in "Tiny Island," Titania & Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Solange in "Follies," Madame Hortense in "Zorba," (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination ), Malvolio in "Twelfth Night," Lorraine Sheldon in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," Bunny in " House of Blue Leaves, " Desiree in "A Little Night Music" and Madame Mantalini in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby." As a cabaret artist, she has kept busy producing, directing and singing around town since moving to Chicago in 1986 from her native Minneapolis.

In August she performed her most recent solo cabaret show "I'm Still Here...I Think" at Davenport's. She also co-produced and performed at The Chicago Cabaret Professionals Summer Gala 2002 at the Royal George. She is the president and a founding member of CCP. She has co-produced and performed in "A Holiday Cabaret" at Bailiwick Theater for the last 4 years, which benefits Teen Living Programs. Suzanne was a 2000 Cabaret Fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.

Suzanne performs a wide variety of music from European and American cabaret to jazz standards and show tunes, in cabarets, clubs and theaters. She loves mixing costumes, songs and stories to illuminate the characters she sings. She chooses music that connects to her heart with a passion that moves her audience's heart, whether revealing a specific artist, or work of great composers and lyricists, in songs from "The Bilbao Song" by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and "La Vie En Rose" by Edith Piaf, to "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" by Cole Porter and "Send In The Clowns" by Stephen Sondheim.

Suzanne opened the new cabaret room at Cucina Bella on New Year's Eve 2001 and performed every Saturday night for 5 months. The reception was thrilling and the excitement of working with some of the great pianists of Chicago, creating a new show every week was unbounded.

For more information, see http://www.Suzannepetri.com/.

 

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