Lehman, Moniz and Resnik Will Be Northwestern's Holiday Divas!

By Allison Klamkin
30 Nov 2009

Ross Lehman, Susan Moniz and Hollis Resnik will take part in Holiday Divas! Dec. 7-8 at Northwestern University's Theatre and Interpretation Center at the Ethel M. Barber Theater.



Lehman, Moniz and Resnik will perform holiday classics by Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, among others. They will be joined by co-hosts Cindy Gold and Bernie Yvon.

Directed by David H. Bell, Holiday Divas! is billed as "two evenings of fantastic song" that also include "funny, happy and moving holiday memories, as all five cast members share their favorite sights and sounds of Christmas and Hanukkah." Daniel Green, staff accompanist at Northwestern University Theatre and Interpretation Center, will accompany the performers.

Ross Lehman has appeared with several Chicago theatre companies including Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, Steppenwolf and Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. He has also toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, and his Broadway credits include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Tempest and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Joseph Jefferson Award winner Susan Moniz has appeared in many productions at the Drury Lane Theatre-Oakbrook and Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, and can be heard on the recordings "Second City Divas – Women of Chicago Musical Theater" and "Live At The Mercury Theater."

Nine-time Jeff Award winner Hollis Resnik appeared in the summer 2008 production of Dangerous Beauty at the American Music Theatre Project of Northwestern University, and the 2009 Summer Music Theatre Festival performance of Diva! Diva! Divas!

Co-host Cindy Gold is an associate professor of theatre in Northwestern's School of Communication, and she recently appeared in Northwestern's TIC Mainstage production of Arsenic and Old Lace. She will appear in Northlight Theatre's winter 2010 production of Awake and Sing!

Bernie Yvon has appeared in productions at Chicago's About Face Theatre and Goodman Theatre, and at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. He appeared on Broadway in Ragtime and can be heard on the recording of Stephen Flaherty and Frank Galati's Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein.

Tickets for Holiday Divas! range from $22-$30 and are available through the TIC box office at (847) 491-7282 or online at www.tic.northwestern.edu.