Looking Back on the April 24 , 2024 Alexandria Cabaret Celebrating Spring2ACTion
Alexandria A Cappella Collective (AACC) singers presented quite a fun show for this year’s cabaret to celebrate another successful fundraising drive as part of the City of Alexandria’s spring2ACTion campaign. It is designed for non-profit arts groups to raise funds for their programs.
A good crowd of members from both Metro Voices and the Harmonizers attended, enjoyed some refreshments and clapped loudly for the cabaret performers. It was also live on Facebook. There were also a large number of chapter patrons at the cabaret.
The donations are still coming in as we write this, but as of 10 am on April 26 the total was $27,185 from 241 donors, Thanks for our many donors in the chapter and friends of the chapter, we also won some prize money for things like the most donors in our 3-4 pm power hour.
The chapter had several members and friends who contributed funds prior to spring2ACTion that allowed the chapter to match the first $6750 received on the big day. Thanks to Randall Eliason, David and Jeanne Hillinck, Ellen Dellert, Dean Rust and Terry Reynolds.
The daylong competition between Randall and Joe Cerutti continues – but as of now, Joe has pulled ahead of Randall’s $2750 with a $3239 total dollars raised from other donots. He actually first pulled ahead near the end of the cabaret when Joe asked for his friends to help him go ahead. Joe Cerutti Sr. (who was watching on Facebook) came to the rescue and donated enough at that point to make it happen – actually in honor of Joe Junior's birthday on the 24th. And donations have continued coming.
Zak Sandler was accompanist for all of his fellow singers from the chapter. The cabaret acts included the following:
Lance Fisher who sang an aria in German
Clyde Crusenberry who entertained with a show song
Charlie Rothermel sang and accompanied himself with guitar
Heidi Krukowski sang a Whitney Houston song
Joan Wolford, wife of Frank Shipp, sang a fun show song. (She was the caterer for the recent gala.)
Sophie Clarke sang a solo – she recently completed her voice recital for her Master’s Degree
Terry Reynolds sang “Trouble” from The Music Man with the chorus members filling in the responses
Becca Williams and Ben Watsky sang a duet from High School Musical
Joan and Frank sang a fun duet of a John Prine song with Frank accompanying on the guitar
David Breen with Zak did a great jazz work on “Without a Song”
Devin Gerzof and Matt Ambler each did a song from Les Misérables
Joe felt like he should do a song, and so he decided to replicate performance of Tony Colosimo singing “Bring Him Home” also from Les Misérables. (It worked ok until Joe got the words mixed up and revealed he was not singing – Tony was on a mic in the back of the audience.)
Tessa Walker sang a song from Dogfight, and then Samantha Tramack and Maggie McAlexander sang a show song duet to put a finale on the cabaret show.
Joe was emcee for the night, welcomed all the guests and donors both in the house and on Facebook, and thanked the development team of Randall, Ken Rub, Susan Fitzpatrick for their leadership in stimulating participation in spring2ACTion and for hosting the cabaret night. There were drinks and goodies for guests to enjoy all evening. Mike Kelly was on-hand to do the tech and sound in cooperation with the staff at The Bike Club.
Until next time – editorjack!
(This message is prepared for your review if you were there, for your information if you had to miss, and as a historical record for the great things going on each week during the 75th year of the Alexandria Chapter. - YeEd)
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