Dan Stetzel – your host for open-mic night at 3160 every Tuesday evening starting at 9pm. Dan’s unique and diversified background in the arts brings a rich experience in cabaret and theatre to the keys at the club. He has a variety of music for your benefit or you may bring your own . . . come out and sing . . .

Dan is a musical director, arranger, vocal instructor, and pianist. He has worked at most of the major equity theatres in Chicago, and for many LORT theatres across the United States. As a conductor, he has toured nationally, and continues to accompany many of the major Broadway auditions in Chicago. Dan has long been affiliated with the Chicago Humanities Festival, overseeing and directing programs featuring Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Stephen Schwartz, John Bucchino, Craig Carnelia, Cy Coleman, and a host of performers, lyricists, and composers. His work in musical theatre has been recognized many times by the Joseph Jefferson committee. Dan is proud to be a member of the faculty at Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

 

Dan Stetzel – Five New Musicals Tested in Chicago's Stages 2009 Festival

Aug. 21-23 By Kenneth Jones

Stages 2009, Theatre Building Chicago's annual festival of new musicals presented in reading format, will kick off Aug. 21 with a special revue that includes songs by Martin Charnin, George Stiles & Anthony Drewe, Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen, Owen Kalt and Elizabeth Doyle and many others. Songs in the Key of Today will be presented Aug. 21, the first day of the nationally-known 16th annual Stages 2009, a three-day festival of "musicals in progress." The festival runs Aug. 21-23.

Songs in the Key of Today — coordinated by John Sparks, Cherie Coons and Dan Stetzel, directed by Henry Fonte and music-directed by Dan Stetzel — will be seen 7:30 PM Aug. 21 and 4 PM Aug. 22. The weekend also includes two presentations each of five musicals, plus two panel discussions. Stages 2009 is billed as "a creative gathering of authors, actors, artists, theatre producers and musical theatre lovers who come together for one weekend, celebrating America's original art form, the musical."