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ighwood once again is transforming into Pumpkin Fest headquarters and going big! The Autism Society of Illinois and the City of Highwood are proud to announce the 6th Annual Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival will be held October 9-11. Kicking off the Halloween season, this fan favorite event will bring communities together while working to beat the Guinness World Record of 30,581 for most jack-o’-lanterns carved and lit at the same time (a record held by Keene, New Hampshire). The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival will shine a light on hope, possibilities and options for the Continued on PG 12
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Hooray for … Light Opera Works
back; they’re like time machines. I get to feel again like I felt when I saw a certain movie and heard a certain song from that movie.” Berneche and three other women — Amanda Horvath, Sarah Larson and Mary Robin Roth — will sing movie songs spanning seven decades in “Hollywood’s Greatest Song Hits,” a Wilmette-based Light Opera Works concert. The two-hour show, suitable for ages eight and older, runs Oct. 2-11 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston. Among the hits: “As Time Goes By” (from Casablanca, 1942); “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (from Buck Privates, 1941); “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969); “Nobody Does It Better” (from The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977); “My Heart Will Go On” (from Titanic, 1997); and “When You Wish Upon a Star” (from Pinocchio, 1940). Berneche will sing the theme licia Berneche watched song from Titanic and “I Will Grease 2, the movie, Wait For You” (from The Umbreldecades ago. Michelle las of Cherbourg, 1964), among Pfeiffer and someone named Alicia Berneche other songs. Maxwell Caulfield starred in it. “I’m in love with that song,” It received exactly zero Academy Berneche back then. Music is a ers in cars, in kitchens, in dens. she says of “I Will Wait For You,” Award nominations for movies huge part of Berneche’s life today. Some are iconic tunes. Some are adding she’ll sing half of it in made in 1982. The opera singer has performed ditties from flawed flicks. All tend English and half of it in French. The snub did not surprise Ber- at Lyric Opera of Chicago and is to transport the listeners to “Each of the women [in the cast] neche, an Evanston resident and a voice instructor at Glenbrook another time, in many instances has her niche, her genre of music. a native of Kokomo, Indiana. North High School in North- a better time. What’s exciting for me is the op“Horrible movie,” she recalls. brook. “I’m 16 years old all over again portunity to perform music But the movie had a Oldies radio stations play all when I hear Grease 2 songs,” Bersoundtrack. Music appealed to kinds of songs, delighting listen- neche says. “Movie songs take me Continued on PG 12
Wilmette-based music theater to feature classic Hollywood songs
By BILL MCLEAN
What? Hollywood’s Greatest Song Hits When? Oct. 2-11 Where? Nicholas Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue Evanston
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