Past Performers

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Brian Stokes Mitchell

Tony Award winning star of Ragtime, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me, Kate, and Shuffle Along

Judy Kuhn

Four-Time Tony nominated leading lady (Fun Home, Chess, She Loves Me, Les Misérables)

Billy Porter

Tony Award winning star of Kinky Boots and Shuffle Along

Kyle Riabko

Broadway's hunky heartthrob (Hair, Spring Awakening), Star of the West End and Off-Broaddway's Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined

LaChanze

Tony Award winning star of The Color Purple,Once On This Island, and If/Then

Kyle Dean Massey

Star of TV's Nashville and Broadway'sWicked,Next to Normal, and Pippin

Mandy Gonzalez

Star of Broadway's Hamilton,Wicked,and In The Heights

Will Swenson & Seth Rudetsky

Tony Nominated Star of Broadway's Waitress,Hair,and The Pirate Queen & Host of SiriusXM OnBroadway

Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner

Tony Nominated Stars of the critically acclaimed Broadway hit Side Show

Joshua Henry

Star of Broadway's Violet, Porgy and Bess, and Shuffle Along

Rumer Willis

Saucy Broadway starlet (Chicago) and winner of Dancing With The Stars

Jason Danieley

Star of Broadway's Chicago, The Visit, and Next To Normal

Paula Dione Ingram

Indy's own powerhouse vocalist

Hilary Kole

Sultry jazz chanteuse

Allan Harris

Soulful jazz storyteller

Aaron Lazar

Hunky Broadway heartthrob (The Last Ship, The Phantom of the Opera, The Light In The Piazza)

Megan Hilty

Belting Blonde Bombshell (SMASH, Wicked, Noises Off!)

Jane Lynch

Star of Broadway's Annie, Emmy & Golden Globe Award winning star of GLEE

Patina Miller

Tony Award Winning Star of Pippin and Sister Act

John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey

Cabaret's Star Couple

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Triple Grammy Winner. Tony Winner. UN Goodwill Ambassador. Producer. Record Label Head. Vocalist. Jazz Legend. Global Icon.

Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp

Original Stars of Broadway's iconic show, RENT

Faith Prince

Tony Award Winning star of Guys & Dolls, Disaster!, and Annie

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Tony Award Winning Star of the Broadway Phenomenon Hamilton

Ramin Karimloo

Tony nominated star of Broadway's Anastasia,The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables

Lea DeLaria

Star of Netflix's Orange Is The New Black, jazz singer, Broadway star, and comedienne

Sutton Foster

Two-time Tony Award winning actor, singer, and dancer

The Hot Sardines

Named, “one of the best jazz bands in New York today”

Tony DeSare

Acclaimed vocalist, pianist, and composer

Nellie McKay

Quirky singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, ukulele player, and satirist

Spencer Day

Singer, songwriter, and pianist compared to Harry Connick, Jr. and Jamie Cullum

Mandy Gonzalez

Star of Broadway’s Wicked and In the Heights

Indianapolis Men's Chorus

Linda Lavin

Tony Award and Golden Globe Winner

Darrian Ford

Star of Broadway

Karen Irwin

Local Indianapolis performer

Laura Osnes

Star of Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, and Grease

Norm Lewis

Star of Broadway's Porgy & Bess, Les Misérables, and The Phantom of the Opera

Alan Cumming

Tony Award Winning Star of Broadway's Cabaret, Star of Television's The Good Wife

Adam Kantor & Betsey Wolfe

Stars of the acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of The Last Five Years

Megan Hilty

Star of Broadway’s Wicked and 9 to 5: The Musical & television’s SMASH

Chester Gregory

Star of Broadway’s Sister Act, Hairspray, and Dreamgirls

Stephanie J. Block

Tony nominated star of Broadway’s Wicked, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes, and The Pirate Queen

Tierney Sutton

Jazz vocalist and five-time Grammy nominee

Meow Meow

International cabaret chanteuse

Cyrille Aimée

Internationally renowned gypsy jazz singer

Karrin Allyson

Three-time Grammy nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album

James Tormé

Jazz vocalist bringing classic jazz to a new generation

Laura Benanti

Tony Award winner and television star

Susan Werner

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter

Cheyenne Jackson

Star of Broadway, GLEE, and 30 Rock

Steve Kazee

Tony and Grammy Award winner for Once

Jeremy Jordan

Star of Broadway’s Newsies and Bonnie & Clyde, film’s The Last Five Years, and television’s SMASH

René Marie

The most provocative risk taker of today’s jazz divas

Christine Ebersole

Two-time Tony Award winner for 42nd Street and Grey Gardens

Swingin' Christmas

Birdland regulars Billy Stritch, Jim Caruso, and Klea Blackhurst

Kelli O'Hara

Tony Award winning actress considered one of Broadway’s great leading ladies

Sara Gazarek

Hailed by the LA Times as “the next important jazz singer”

Kurt Elling

Grammy award winning jazz vocalist

Shoshana Bean

Broadway star, singer, and songwriter

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Star of Broadway and television’s SMASH

Barb Jungr

Winner of NY Nightlife’s Aware for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist and the Backstage Bistro Award for Best International Artist

Scott Alan & Caissie Levy

Renowned musical theatre composer/lyricist and Broadway star

Paris Combo

Hip & quirky global gypsies

Emily Skinner

Broadway star and Tony nominee for her work in Side Show

Ute Lemper

German cabaret icon

Ana Gastayer

Broadway veteran and Saturday Night Live favorite

Eden Espinosa

One of the most exciting voices of her generation and star of Broadway’s Wicked, Rent, and Brooklyn

Betty Buckley

Tony Award winner who has been dubbed “The Voice of Broadway”

Karen Irwin

Local theater veteran

Valerie Pettiford

A true diva and “triple threat” exuding the sensual and provocative style of a Fosse-trained performer

Louise Pitre

Canada’s first lady of musical theater

Christine Andreas

Veteran and award-winning Broadway musical theatre performer

The Broadway Boys

Some of the hottest male voices working on Broadway

Diane Schuur

One of Contemporary Jazz’s leading vocalists

Susan Egan

Tony Award nominee and television star

Jonathan Groff

Tony Award nominee for Spring Awakening and star of television’s GLEE on FOX and HBO’s Looking

Stacy Kent

Grammy nominated songstress who has sold out concert halls, jazz clubs, and cabarets around the world

Linda Eder

Vocal sensation and award winning star of Broadway’s Jekyll and Hyde

Melinda Doolittle

American Idol finalist and back up singer for performers such as Michael McDonald, Aretha Franklin, and Aaron Neville

Todd Murray

American cabaret crooner

Victoria Clark

Tony Award winning Broadway star

Lainie Kazan

Critically acclaimed and Tony nominated star of stage and screen

Maureen O'Flynn

Metropolitan Opera leading lady and one of the most thrilling voices to grace the worlds of opera, musical theater, and cabaret

Janis Siegel

Co-founder of The Manhattan Transfer and 10-time Grammy winner

Steven Stolen

Indy's favorite tenor

Sam Harris

Star Search Grand Champion, platinum selling recording artist, Tony nominated Broadway star, and an international concert sellout

Andrea Marcovicci

The Queen of Cabaret

The Legends of Doowop

Jimmy Guilford (“King of Northland Soul,” member of the Ink Spots, Lamplighters, Dominoes), Bobby Bernard (member of The Monograms), Herman Lewis (The Monograms), and Phil Armstrong

Jil Aigrot

French chanteuse and voice of Edith Piaf in the major motion picture Piaf

Melissa Manchester

Grammy award winning singer/songwriter and pop music icon

Cynthia Lane

Acclaimed jazz vocalist

Billy Stritch

Singer/songwriter, Broadway performer, and musical director/pianist

Brenda Williams

Local Indianapolis diva

Darrian Ford

Star of Broadway’s State Fair, The Who’s Tommy, and Smokey Joe’s Café

Liz Callaway

Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award winner

Tony DeSare

Acclaimed vocalist, pianist, and composer

Jason Robert Brown & Shoshana Bean

Award winning composer and Broadway star of Wicked and Hairspray

Stephanie J. Block

One of Broadway’s most versatile and relevant leading ladies

Karen Akers

One of cabaret’s most arresting and successful stars

Christine Pedi

Long time Forbidden Broadway diva and Sirius/XM Radio talk show hostess
 

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