A Cabaret Sampler with Heart & Sole
The Cleveland Cabaret Project is proud to feature two full 50-minute Cabarets! Please join us Friday and Saturday evenings starting March 19, 2010 for a night of entertainment, under the musical direction of Charles Eversole and featuring some of the best performers Cleveland has to offer!
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(This Could Be) The Heart of Something...
The heart of the evening will feature Lora Workman and Paul Hoffman and the biggest Big Band that Kennedy's will allow as they celebrate the musical styling's of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme!
SOLE MATES
Shoe love is true love, and Nicole McLaughlin has the blisters to prove it! Journery through the ups and downs of Nicole's childhood, womanhood and relationships as she shares songs and stories about her favorite obsession!
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Performance Schedule*
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Cabaret Ticket & Show Information Kennedy's Cabaret at PlayhouseSquare |
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Cleveland Cabaret Project
Lora Workman
Lora Workman, a graduate from Baldwin-Wallace’s Conservatory of Music, has studied the genre of cabaret in Italy and New York. She was selected to participate in the 2007 Cabaret Conference at Yale, where she worked with Tony Nominee Tovah Feldshuh, Jason Graae, and Julie Wilson. She was a semi-finalist in the 2003 San Francisco Cabaret Competition, performed at Don’t Tell Mama’s in NYC and created The Cleveland Cabaret Project with Charles Eversole. Having worn many theatrical hats throughout the Cleveland and regional area, she directed and choreographed the critically acclaimed The Will Rogers Follies at Berea Summer Theatre, which was awarded a Times Newspaper Tribute for Directing and also directed and produced A Cabaret Sampler and Miss Gulch Returns!, both premiering to sold out audiences in Kennedy’s Cabaret at PlayhouseSquare. The Cleveland Cabaret Project traveled to Cain Park this past summer for a cabaret series. Lora is probably best known in this area for her choreography and has worked on shows at Beck Center, Cassidy Theatre, and Huntington Theatre. In addition, she continues working with The North Coast Men’s Chorus, having choreographed dance numbers which were featured in the Linda Eder Concert at Severance Hall and the March 2008 Bernadette Peters concert which was in The Allen Theatre at PlayhouseSquare. Lora is the Education/Community Liaison at PlayhouseSquare where she assists over 50,000 students and teachers each year with the Children's Theater Series School Performances.
pAUL HOFFMAN
Paul Hoffman began his professional career as a member of the international performing group The Young Americans. Touring, recording and television appearances with stars such as The Julie Andrews Easter Telecast, opening acts for Edie Adams and comedian Shecky Green as well as singing with major orchestras, including the Les Brown Band, took him to showrooms in Las Vegas and throughout the country. Remaining on the west coast, Paul was cast in productions of Hello Dolly, Music Man, Damn Yankees (Rocky) and Paint Your Wagon. Relocating to New York, he continued in theater as (Florence Ziegfeld) in an Off-Broadway production of The Ziegfeld Girl and appeared in productions of Annie (Rooster), Guys and Dolls (Nicely), Cabaret and Man of LaMancha. Eventually Paul returned to the cabaret circuit as a member of Winged Victory Singers, a six-member show group, performing in major showrooms throughout the Catskills to Atlantic City and Miami Beach. Returning to northeast Ohio in 1991, Paul appeared at Carousel Dinner Theater in Fiddler on the Roof (Motel), at other theaters in Peter Pan (Smee), Into The Woods (Baker), Secret Garden (Ben Weatherstaff), Kiss Me Kate (Pops), Hair (Hubert), Seussical (Grinch), Miss Saigon (Bar Owner). Porthouse Theatre audiences saw him in the Ohio premier of Nite Club Confidential (Mitch Dupree) where he won rave reviews.
“Paul Hoffman shines as a beatnik jazzman (move over Mel Torme) in "Crazy New Words.”
Mariann Evett, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
nicole mclaughlin
Nicole McLaughlin is an actress, singer, wife and proud mother of two (a dog and a cat). Her Cleveland area credits include The Full Monty and My Favorite Year (Beck Center), Stars Fell All Night and AtTENtion Span: A Festival of 10-Minute Plays (Cleveland Public Theatre), Company and The Women (Cassidy Theatre), Radio Gals (Clague Playhouse), Forbidden and Fantasy Coffee Stop (Red Hen Productions), Birth: The Play (BOLD Cleveland) and As You Like It (Tri-C Metro). She also spent several years singing with the Westlake United Methodist Church Chancel Choir and Chamber Ensemble, with whom she had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall (The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins, Martin Luther King Day 2008) and took part in WCLV’s Jubilation Choral Festival (Chamber Ensemble, winning choir 2009). Nicole now resides in New York City, where she is studying at the William Esper Studio. Love and gratitude to Jeremy.
Charles Eversole
Charles Eversole has served as musical director and/or supervisor for over fifty musical theater productions including national tours of The Who’s Tommy and A Grand Night For Singing, and nationwide performances for the musical satire company The News In Revue. While living in New York, Charles served as a musical director, voice teacher and instructor at NYU and at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He was a member of BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and the Manhattan Association of Cabaret Artists, due to cabaret performances at Don’t Tell Mama’s, The Duplex, and Rose’s Turn. Local cabarets include Miss Gulch Returns and Those Seven Little Words at Kennedy’s, and For the Love of Mike and Let’s Kiss and Make Up at the Cleveland Playhouse Club. His compositions are featured on You Heard It Here First, Melissa Barber’s CD of music written by Northern Ohio composers. As a singer/actor, Charles has performed with The Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and in the wedding band for Tony and Tina's Wedding. Currently, Charles is the Music Director of the Singing Angels.
Page design by Andrew Rothman.
Some photos by Eric Mull, official photographer of The Cleveland Cabaret Project
“One Little way to measure an urban community’s sophistication is in the vitality of its cabaret performances. So it’s heartening to note that producer Lora Workman is trying to resuscitate this lovely art form here…”
Christine Howey, Scene Magazine
“Charles Eversole (Music Director) led the three-piece combo, bantered with the performers and, on one occasion, sang along with a featured performer. Eversole is a talented performer who adds excitement and good cheer to his performances, both at Kennedy’s and at other venues.”
David Ritchey, West Side Leader
“Hoffman scat sings like he invented the technique.”
Russ Mussara, The Akron Beacon Journal