Porchlight Music Theatre Returns to Evanston SPACE with “New Faces Sing Broadway 1984,” April 25

Porchlight Music Theatre announces the latest offering in its 2022 – 2023 season, “New Faces Sing Broadway 1984,” hosted by Jeff Award-nominee and member of the “Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame” Honey West, directed by Tommy Novak with music direction and arrangements by Micky York, Tuesday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Evanston SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave. in Evanston and Wednesday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Now in its eighth season, Porchlight Music Theatre’s New Faces Sing Broadway series returns, taking audiences on a musical journey from the start to the finish of an entire Broadway season in 90 minutes. Host Honey West will introduce the audience to the next generation of Chicago music theatre artists while serving as the guide to the stars, songs and stories of the past. “New Faces Sing Broadway 1984” includes hit songs from the seminal age of Broadway musicals including “La Cage Aux Folles,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Baby,” “The Rink” and others.

The cast of “New Faces Sing Broadway 1984” includes, in alphabetical order, Teddy Gales (national tour of The Spongebob Musical (Nickelodeon)); Isabel Garcia (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Kokandy Productions)); David Gordon-Johnson (And Neither Have I Wings to Fly (First Folio Theatre)); Mai Hartwich (Avenue Q (Music Theater Works)); Nikki Krzebiot (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Kokandy Productions)); Justin Grey McPike (Disney Deep Dive (The Beautiful City Project)); Nora Navarro (Songs for a New World (Theo)); Patrick O’Keefe (Jeff Award winner – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Kokandy Productions)); Lincoln J. Skoien (Merrily We Roll Along (CCPA)) and Luiza Vitucci (The Threepenny Opera (Theo)).

Many of the artists who have appeared in Porchlight’s New Faces Sing Broadway series have continued their careers on television, and local and national stages including Neala Barron (Porchlight’s “Merrily We Roll Along”), Frankie Leo Bennett (Porchlight’s “In the Heights”), Dawn Bless (“Waitress”-national tour), Katherine Bourne (“School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play” at Goodman Theatre), Kayla Boye (“Call Me Elizabeth”-national tour), Anna Brockman, Tim Foszcz, Haley Gustafson, Josiah Haugen, Cam Turner, Jerod Turner and Evan Wilhelm (Porchlight’s “Cabaret”), Lydia Burke and Molly Kral (Jeff Award winners [ensemble] “Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies”), Darilyn Burtley and Max Cervantes (“The Light in the Piazza” at Lyric Opera of Chicago), Kyrie Courter (Broadway’s “Sweeney Todd”), Maddison Denault and David Moreland (Jeff Award-nominees, “Cruel Intentions”), Gilbert Domally (Broadway’s “The Lion King”), Andres Enriquez (Jeff Award nominee-Porchlight’s “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”), Nik Kmiecik, Ziare Paul-Emile and Alix Rhode (Porchlight’s “Rent”), Theo Germaine (Showtime’s “Work in Progress”), Lucy Godinez (Jeff Award nominee-”Oliver”), Emily Goldberg (Jeff Award nominee-Porchlight’s “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”), Nicole Michelle Haskins (Jeff Award winner-“The Color Purple”), Michelle Lauto (Jeff Award winner-“Spamilton”), Yando Lopez (Broadway’s “Wicked”), Henry McGinniss (“Book of Mormon”-national tour), Brandy Miller and Bryce Ancil (Jeff Award-nominees “She Loves Me”), Chloé Nadon-Enriquez (Broadway’s “Bad Cinderella”), Anthony Norman (“The Prom” on Broadway, “Dear Evan Hansen”-national tour), Patrick Rooney (“Les Miserables”-national tour), Aalon Smith (Porchlight’s “Gypsy”), Katherine Thomas (Jeff Award winner-”Ragtime”), Aeriel Williams (“Oedipus Rex” at Court Theatre) and Nicole Lambert, Courtney Mack, Mallory Maedke and Samantha Pauly (“SIX” on Broadway).

“New Faces Sing Broadway 1984” takes place Tuesday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Evanston SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave. in Evanston and Wednesday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. There will be a pre-show lobby gathering at The Den Theatre beginning at 6:30 p.m. with complimentary appetizers and a cash bar. Tickets are now on sale at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org.

The 2023 season of New Faces Sing Broadway concludes with “New Faces Sing Broadway NOW,” coming this summer. Tickets go on sale May 2 at 12 p.m.