Recognized by Billboard Magazine as “extraordinary…a voice tailor-made to travel far and wide in the world of adult pop,” two-time Chicago After Dark Award winner Tom Michael performs across the country to critical acclaim.
Appearing on such concert stages as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, and Metropolitan Room; Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, Empire Room, Davenport’s, Millennium Park Pritzker Stage, and Park West; The Royal Room in Palm Beach; and Guild Hall in East Hampton, Tom has delighted audiences with his warm, expressive style.
His three solo CD’s, “Let Me Be Your Home,” “Written in the Stars,” and “Sailing On,” have received international critical acclaim and radio play, and were named “# 1 CD of the Year ” by such publications as Show Business Weekly Magazine, After Dark Chicago, and WDVR-FM Radio. His recordings have also earned positions on the album spotlight page of Billboard Magazine, and received praise from Playbill, The Advocate, and Chicago’s #1 Radio Station, WGN.
Tom regularly performs with his musical partner Beckie Menzie. In what has been called a “musical marriage,” Menzie & Michael have become one of the nation’s most in-demand duos. With their unique blend of whimsy, nostalgia and imaginative twists on jazz standards, contemporary pop, and show tunes, their concerts and duo CD “Better Two-gether” have won audience and critical acclaim nationwide. They have been described by the Houston Chronicle as “a divine intervention of musical genius,” and NY Cabaret Scenes Magazine as “sizzling,” “pure brilliance,” and “cabaret at its best!”
Previous Performances
Chicago / Midwest
3160 Cabaret, Chicago
Acorn Theater (Three Oaks, Michigan )
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
Backroom, Chicago
Bart Howard Room, Burlington, IA.
Bon Ton Room, Jackson, MI
Boombala
Botanic Gardens, Highland Park
Brownville Nebraska Concert Series
Capital Theater, Burlington Iowa
Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, IL
Casino Club, Chicago, IL
Center For The Performing Arts, Carmel, Indiana
Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Washington Library
Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago
Cornelia’s, Chicago
Crossroads Theater (Naperville )
Crystal Ballroom Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago
Crystal Gardens, Navy Pier
Crystal Room, Navy Pier
Davenport ‘s
Douglas Dunes Cabaret, Douglas MI.
Driehaus Museum
Drury Lane Water Tower Theater
Empire Room
Freedom Hall, Park Forest
Four Seasons Chicago
Fox Theatre, North Platte, NE.
Fox Valley Rep Theatre, St. Charles, IL
Ft. Wayne Grand Center, Ft. Wayne, IN
Gallery 37 Theatre, Chicago
Gaslight Theatre, St Louis
Gentry
Grainger Ballroom, Symphony Center
Harris Theater, Millineum Park
Highland Park Country Club
Hoover-Leppen Theatre, Chicago
Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL
Kasch Performance Hall, Monmouth IL
Lakeshore Theater, Chicago
Le Piano
Lurie Gardens, Millineum Park, Chicago
Madden Theatre, Naperville IL
Maxims
Mayne Stage, Chicago
Chicago / Midwest
Merle Ruskin Theatre, Chicago
Metropolis Theatre, Arlington Heights, IL
Milwaukee Jewish Museum
Moraine Valley Fine & Performing Arts Center
Morton Grove Library
Navy Pier, Crystal Gardens
NorthShore Senior Center, Il
Oconomowac Arts Center
Overture Center, Madsion WI.
Park Ridge Library
Park West, Chicago
Patty Turner Center
Petterino’s, Chicago
Piano Forte, Chicago
Polo Cafe, Chicago
Pops For Champagne
Preston Bradley Hall
Pritzker Pavillion Main Stage, Millineum Park
Racoon Club
Ravinia Festival
Rodeheaver Series, Warsaw, IN.
Royal George Theater
Saugatuck Center for Performing Arts, Saugatuck, MI.
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center (Brookfield, WI.)
Skokie Library
Skokie Theater
Stackner Cabaret (Milwaukee, WI.)
Standard Club, Chicago, IL
State Theater, Bay City, MI
Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago
The Estate at Gene & Georgetti’s, Rosemont, IL
The Murphy Auditorium, Chicago
Thorne Auditorium, Evanston, IL
Toulouse on the Park
UIC Pavillion
Union League Club, Chicago
University Club, Chicago, IL
Victory Gardens Theatre
Village Players, Oak Park, IL
Wagon Wheel Theatre, Warsaw Indiana
Whitehall Hotel
Womens Athleteic Club, Evanston
Womens Athletic Club Chicago
California
Arthur Newman Theatre, Palm Springs
Houston, Tx
Ovations
The Post Oak Grill
Warwick Hotel
The Houstonian
New York and East Coast
Carnegie Hall, NYC
Lincoln Center, NYC
The Town Hall, NYC
The Supper Club, NYC
The Duplex, NYC
The Triad, NYC
Don’t Tell Mamma, NYC
Guild Hall, East Hampton
O’dettes, New Hope. PA
Goodwill Theatre, Johnson City, NY
The Metropolitan Room, NYC
Harlans, New Hope, PA
Sapinsley Hall, Providence RI
Florida
The Club at Pelican Reserve, Sarasota
Goldstein Concert Hall, Boca Raton
The Royal Room, Palm Beach
Freidman Symphony Center, Sarasota
Lyric Theater, Stuart
Big Arts, Sanibel
Symphony Concerts
Boston Pops Symphony
Chicago Chamber Orchestra
Danville Symphony
Racine Symphony
Spokane Symphony
Symphony of The Lakes, Warsaw
Other
Regent Cruise Line, Headliner
Windstar Cruises, Headliner