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2nd PBS Special in Rehearsal

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[youtube]http://youtu.be/zheqgpwNgpE[/youtube] The Under the Streetlamp crew is in the final stages of rehearsal for its upcoming Sept. 7 taping for a PBS special at Chicagoland’s Star Plaza Theatre.

Concert camaraderie: Streetlamp promises fresh mix of musical fun for 2nd PBS concert taping

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NWI TIMES: Entertainer Michael Cunio promises audiences a party at every performance of Under the Streetlamp, the skyrocketed foursome of talented young singers introduced as new stage faces just two years ago. “Fans already know what to expect, and can count on a mix of favorite songs they know and love,” Cunio explained last week during a break in rehearsals at Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, where he will perform Saturday with his three crooning counterparts before television cameras and plenty of applause. “Add to the experience fresh musical numbers and some surprises and it’s like a party where everyone is invited.”

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Michael & Angela Ingersoll

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METROPOLIS INSIDER: Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is proud to welcome home our favorite Jersey Boy Michael Ingersoll, along with his adorable wife Angela. The pair are set to serenade MPAC audiences Saturday, June 22, with their hilarious and heartwarming concert My Baby Just Cares For Me. In anticipation of the big night, we caught up with Michaelangela (can we call them by their celebrity couple name?) at home in Los Angeles to collect some juicy facts you may not know.

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Mr Blue Medley

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ry-0Omthnw[/youtube] Affable crooner Michael Ingersoll delivers a soulful medley of sweet favorites. From irresistible man and wife duo Michael & Angela Ingersoll’s concert My Baby Just Cares For Me. Filmed at Northlight Theatre, October 2012.

“Here We Come a Wassailing”

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGIT9uBJZIM[/youtube] Under The Streetlamp, the four recent cast members of Jersey Boys, bring Santa Claus back to town. Our Christmas album, “Every Day’s A Holiday” is available for purchase on http://underthestreetlamp.com

Hollywood 360

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The Ingersolls have a heartwarming chat with lovely Lisa Wolf on the Hollywood 360 Radio Show. [jwplayer config=”Video Feed” mediaid=”880″]

Married musical theater standouts team up for local benefit

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Daily Herald talks with Michael and Angela Ingersoll

Stepping onto the Northlight Theatre stage Monday evening marks a reunion of sorts for married musical theater veterans Michael and Angela Ingersoll, who bring their cabaret revue “My Baby Just Cares for Me” to the Skokie theater Monday for the first of two benefit shows. The couple, who met onstage 11 years ago at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, last worked together in the 2006 revival of the musical revue “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights.

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My Baby Just Cares For Me

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The wife and I are putting together a shindig at Northlight. From the Broadway World Press Release:

Monday, October 1 and Tuesday, October 2 at 8:00pm at Northlight Theatre

Sparks fly as irresistible husband and wife duo Michael and Angela Ingersoll share the spotlight for a scintillating night of classic pop favorites. He’s the affable crooner from Jersey Boys and the PBS vocal group sensation Under the Streetlamp. She’s the vivacious starlet from The Second City Hollywood with two Jeff Award nods. Together the playful pair woos audiences with all the candor and chemistry of a modern day George and Gracie. Their hilarious, heartwarming soiree features unforgettable hits from The Drifters, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, Lesley Gore, Bobby Darrin, The Jackson Five, Judy Garland, and many more. It’s love in concert, live in concert.

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Q&A with Under the Streetlamp’s Michael Ingersoll

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Cincinnati’s CityBeat gets the scoop on Ohio native’s success

Under the Streetlamp is a new act storming the nation that presents audiences with a vocal performance spotlighting what they call the “American Radio Songbook.” The ensemble took its classic approach and turned it into a full production that has been drawing packed houses all over. Under the Streetlamp is currently barnstorming across the country on the heels of its PBS special and debut self-titled album, which showcases UtS’s strong Doo-Wop/Pop/Motown/Rock & Roll-oldies sound.

CityBeat recently spoke with one of the vocalists, Michael Ingersoll, of Jersey Boys fame, and discussed the rise and evolution of the group as well as where the sights are set for the future…

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Ingersoll reflects on new musical endeavor

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from the Dayton Daily News  article “Kettering native co-creates retro quartet Under the Streetlamp”

…The group’s terrific, personable debut CD and DVD (available exclusively through PBS) continues to gain momentum, especially as they embark on their first tour… In advance of Under the Streetlamp’s appearance in our region, Ingersoll, who particularly supplies wonderfully smooth and sincere renditions of “Pretty Woman,” “Save the Last Dance” and “Cupid,” reflected on the troupe, the tour and the timeless songs of a bygone era that continues to bridge generations.

Q: What pleases you the most when you look back on Under the Streetlamp’s origin?

A: “It all started by accident. We started doing this for fun on the nights off from ‘Jersey Boys,’ but have since invested all we have to see what this group can become. We want to see if we can maintain a project that is ours, a project that we can guide and have ownership over to overcome the cycle of employment and unemployment that is the reality of actors.”

Q: Is it difficult to maintain a sense of individuality in a quartet?

A: “Not the way we do it. By design, we’re a quartet with four lead singers, which is very rare… All four of us sing in different styles as well and we don’t step on each other’s toes. When we choose our music, we almost know immediately who will sing lead. Shonn is a great crooner and showman. Chris is a very soulful balladeer. Michael is drawn to Motown material and has an awesome range, particularly singing ‘At Last’ in Etta James’ original key. I’m more of a rock and folk kind of guy. Our goal has always been to take our four individual strengths and make this group better than the sum of its parts.”

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Take Aim: Under the Streetlamp’s Michael Ingersoll vs. Amy Sciarretto

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ArtistDirect: “Anyone who admits to singing Garth Brooks in the shower is cool by us.” Under the Streetlamp’s Michael Ingersoll was tough enough to withstand an interrogation with Amy Sciarretto. He’s talented and fun to chat with, and very candid and informative.These questions didn’t intimidate him; he housed these bitches, from back to front. He was a class act, … Read more

UNDER THE STREETLAMP Commands The Stage in Style

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Broadway World Review by Jeffrey Ellis

While seated at TPAC’s James K. Polk Theatre Thursday night, I was struck by a sudden realization: If Matthew Weiner, the creator/executive producer/grand poobah of Mad Men, needs some inspiration, or if perhaps he needs a special musical guest for his particular period-piece of a television juggernaut, he need look no further than the four men who make up Under the Streetlamp, the singing group that is currently taking the USA by storm in their first national tour. With exceptional style and remarkable confidence, their act goes down as smoothly as a perfectly dry martini served up in the glamorous nightclub of your nostalgia-fueled dreams.

Oozing charm and brimming over with sex appeal and an overabundance of stage presence, Under the Streetlamp—the quartet (Michael Ingersoll, Michael Cunio, Shonn Wiley and Christopher Kale Jones) that somehow manages to capture the sounds of multiple generations in their polished act, one that has delighted PBS pledge drive supporters for some time now—took to the stage of the Polk Theatre for a concert of pop music standards, a tuneful blend they quite appropriately call “The American Radio Songbook.”

Clad in impeccably tailored suits, the four men look for all the world as if they have just stepped off a Mad Men soundstage, calling to mind the final scenes of the television series’ season five finale (which aired only four nights earlier). Much like Don Draper striding purposefully off a soundstage, the men of Under the Streetlamp strode onto the Polk Theatre stage, proceeding to give a performance that resulted in multiple standing ovations—a tricky, if altogether deserved, trifecta of appreciation—and the kind of respect Nashville audiences give only to the extremely talented. With smooth sophistication, an easy wit and the kind of rapport some performers can only dream about, Under the Streetlamp delivered the musical goods and then some.

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Streetlamp Brings Style, Class, & The American Radio Songbook

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Broadway World talks with Streetlamp’s Michael Ingersoll and  Michael Cunio

Timing just seems right for the four men who make up Under the Streetlamp—the quartet that’s taking American stages by storm this summer—to share their mantra that “retro never sounded so now!” with the legions of fans of “The American Radio Songbook of the ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s” while bringing a whole new audience over to their side of the musical dial.

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Harmony, hard-times, and a little help from their friends.

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Chicago Sun-Times talks with the Michaels, Cunio & Ingersoll

Talk to members of the quartet known as Under the Streetlamp, and invariably the guys will refer to their success as nothing short of a dream coming true. That might be over-simplifying the journey that Michael Ingersoll, Michael Cunio, Christopher Kale Jones and Shonn Wiley took to get to this point in their careers — and their lives. But arrived they have, playing to sold-out crowds, starring in their first national PBS special, and, oh yes, then there’s that first national tour they’re kicking off May 12 at the Park West, in addition to the release of their debut DVD and CD.

And on one level, they have Chicago to thank for all of it.

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Under the Streetlamp Basks in Retro Sunlight

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(Reuters) – One Direction, who? The Wanted, what? Their music is kids’ stuff. As a new wave of boy bands floods the market, there is one quartet winning fans with a modern twist on a retro sound they call “Amercan Radio Songbook.”

Under The Streetlamp steers clear of top 40 songs in favor of classic Motown hits, good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll, doo-wop and a Beatles tune or pop number thrown in for fun.

Its members, Michael Cunio, Shonn Wiley, Michael Ingersoll and Christopher Kale Jones, are all veterans of the stage, having starred in various productions of Broadway hit “Jersey Boys,” a musical history of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

“We’re a ‘man band,'” Cunio told Reuters, with a laugh, drawing a contrast between pop sensations like One Direction and The Wanted with their screaming teenage fans and Under the Streetlamp, which relishes in bringing new life to classic hits.

“The generation that came before us grew up listening to this music and passed it along to us, and now we are stewards of this music to the next generation,” said Cunio.

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Under the Streetlamp on Access Hollywood Live

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Thanks for tuning in to Access Hollywood Live! If you love the music of the American Radio Songbook as much as we do, and want more Under the Streetlamp, get your CD and DVD today! Our music is currently available exclusively through PBS. You can make a difference by making a pledge to your PBS … Read more

Reviews: Jersey Boys

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“Jersey Boys, you’re just too good to be true. Can’t take our eyes off of you… Jersey Boys, which opened its national tour Sunday at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, is every bit as good as you’ve heard it is… Much praise has been heaped on the award-winning Four Seasons on Broadway, but it’s hard to imagine anyone better than the guys in the touring cast. Michael Ingersoll is Nick Massi, the quieter, classier one; Deven May is Tommy DeVito, the gambler and de facto older brother; Erich Bergen is Bob Gaudio, the musical mastermind; and Christopher Kale Jones is Frankie Valli, the voice. The guys sound great and look sharp… I can’t say enough about the fab four at the story’s center… These guys are stars in the making. Who needs Broadway when the tour is this good?”
-Inside Bay Area
 
“Night after night, the audience in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre doesn’t even ask permission to applaud… they just do! In the middle of songs no less, they’re on their feet, swimming in the ubiquitous sound of The Four Seasons during the first tour engagement of the Tony Award-winning musical, Jersey Boys. This act hits all the right notes… (and) features four knock-out leading men backed by an explosive band… Rounding out the quartet is Michael Ingersoll as the late-Nick Massi. Ingersoll’s controlled, open voice is the perfect piece to the rich and flawless harmonies. His second-act tirade atop an unrelenting bass line is eminent and biting.”
-Broadway World

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Reviews: Tick, Tick… BOOM!

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Michael Ingersoll, Tick, Tick...BOOM!

“MICHAEL INGERSOLL HELPS LARSON’S 3-CHARACTER PIECE ROAR WITH COMPASSION”

“The main reason why this version is so good is the presence of Michael Ingersoll in the lead role. Ingersoll is a newcomer to Chicago, but once casting agents get a look at this dripping-with-talent young fellow, he won’t need further introduction. Not only does he have a great set of pipes and laudable interpretive skills with a song, he actually looks and acts like a writer-composer type rather than an actor… Far better than the lead in the national tour of this show a couple of years back, Ingersoll has this character down cold—the vulnerability, the charm, the musical chops, the gentle but persistent neuroses. He makes you want him to win, which is the point.”
-Chicago Tribune
 

“AS GREAT COMPOSER REMEMBERED, NEW STAR GOES ‘BOOM!’”

“His name is Michael Ingersoll. Remember it. He has just recently arrived in Chicago, after working in Cincinnati and Memphis. And he’s got ‘star’ written all over him. In fact, Monday night at Pegasus Players, as the actor flew through tick, tick … BOOM! – Jonathan Larson’s beguiling pre-Rent musical – I was ready to slip him a note that read: ‘Start learning the score for Jersey Boys; you might have a real shot at that hit show’s national tour.’ He’s that good, as both actor and singer. It doesn’t hurt at all that he’s boy-next-door cute.”
-Chicago Sun Times

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Reviews: Frost Nixon

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  “Outstanding performances were the reign of the night, particularly Bill Andrews’ portrayal of former president Richard Nixon and Michael Ingersoll who brought the role of David Frost to life…  Mr. Ingersoll portrays Frost with charm and humor, smoothly evoking the blithe superficiality of a kind of lightweight journalist who worked against all odds and … Read more

Keeping It Real with Tony Bennett

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If you’re like us, you love the world of art and entertainment showcased on PBS’s Great Performances. Friends, we cannot recommend this week’s new episode highly enough! Check your local listings to catch an extraordinary documentary on the making of Tony Bennett’s Duet’s II album. The legendary Mr. Bennett elegantly continues to bring generations together with great music, and there’s no end in sight. He doesn’t believe in retiring. Not if you get to do what you love.

Streetlamp’s own Michael Ingersoll enjoyed the awesome privilege of meeting Tony Bennett just a few years ago. Both gentlemen appeared as musical guests on the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mr. Bennett, who was honored that night with an Emmy for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his television special Tony Bennett: An American Classic, sang a scintillating duet with Christina Aguilera. And Mr. Ingersoll, who was then playing to sold-out houses in the San Francisco production of Jersey Boys, performed a rocking Four Seasons medley in tribute to those other Jersey boys, HBO’s The Sopranos. Ingersoll was thrilled to be surrounded by the many show-busniess luminaries the ceremony attracts. But perhaps no encounter with an admired icon was more influential than the one with Mr. Bennett.

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Reviews: Of Mice and Men

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  “…George Dudley and Michael Ingersoll are picturesque as Steinbeck’s famous drifters. Ingersoll’s young but world-weary George is sarcastic and grouch but never unlikable. Ingersoll plays him as an emotional vortex, a man who knows cruelty – and has even used it – but now dares to share his dream with his friend and albatross.” … Read more

Reviews: Bat Boy: The Musical

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  “Company Member Michael A. Ingersoll has dedicated a year to creating his superb characterization of a blood-sucking half-bat, half-human creature… His bald, deathly pale skin combined with ballplayer’s muscular physique belies the genteel, immaculately voiced aesthete the monster becomes.” -Commercial Appeal   “In the role of the bat boy, Michael A. Ingersoll perfectly inhabits … Read more

Reviews: Floyd Collins

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  “Michael Ingersoll may not have been raised in a cave, but his theater experience could make him at home in one. Donning Spock ears and vampire fangs, he was the cave-dwelling outcast in Bat Boy: The Musical in the summer of 2003. And now Playhouse’s welterweight tenor is back underground – this time as … Read more

Reviews: Shakespeare’s R&J

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    “Michael Ingersoll, a resident company member at Playhouse on the Square, brought his considerable experience to the role of Student Two, who draws the assignment of Juliet. Ingersoll has been stellar in diverse parts on Memphis stages. Here his nuanced performance was even more a wonder to behold.” -Commercial Appeal

Reviews: Picnic

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“Michael A. Ingersoll’s powerful performance as Hal was winning and graceful. The actor, who has shown he’s comfortable in all sorts of roles, easily conveyed Hal’s rugged charm…” -Commercial Appeal

PBS PREVIEW

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxY_sJibrD8[/youtube] Get your first look at Under the Streetlamp, America’s hottest new vocal group, coming to you from their very first PBS Special. The quartet delivers the classic hits of the American radio songbook with the irresistible rapport of a modern day Rat Pack. Take and look and you’ll see why retro never sounded so … Read more

Streetlamp Fans Sing Praises on Ticketmaster

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As we near our PBS Broadcast premiere, we’re just bursting with anticipation. And it looks like some of you share our countdown fever! Fans are sounding-off on Ticketmaster and predicting big things for Under the Streetlamp. Barb 0809 says: “As soon as PBS airs this concert, they will be loved nationwide. These four men are so talented … Read more

PBS Scheduling Update

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Drumroll, please… We’ve just finished the post-filming technical production for the PBS special! And here’s the scoop you’ve been waiting for: Album and DVD will be released in February 2012 alongside the launch of the PBS broadcast. National tour info to follow! We wish to shout from the rooftops our sincere gratitude to the magnificent … Read more

Press: Under the Streetlamp at DeVos Hall

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Under the Streetlamp

Under the Streetlamp

Imagine a group of guys who like to sing together so much they can’t resist gathering under a streetlamp in their urban neighborhood to give an impromptu concert. That is the kind of image Michael Ingersoll had in mind when he gathered some of his “Jersey Boys” co-stars and formed his quartet, Under the Streetlamp.

“It’s evocative of the era (1950s and ’60s),” Ingersoll said. “People would be sitting on their porches and stoops because there wasn’t any air conditioning. Doo-wop was an emerging art form, a working class medium. I just liked that image.”

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Season’s Greetings-A Jersey Boys Christmas

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Michael got in the mood for the holidays a little earlier than usual this year. He was overjoyed to reunite with Jersey Boys friends and family to record vocals for the smashing new holiday collection: Seasons Greetings-A Jersey Boys Christmas. With wonderfully creative arrangements from Music Director Ron Melrose, magnificent vocal performances by Jersey Boys … Read more

Press: Speaking with Michael Ingersoll of Under the Streetlamp

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 Michael Ingersoll, Under the Streetlamp

No, it’s not the name of the latest Broadway musical.

Under the Streetlamp is a quartet of thirtysomething singer-actors who are making a big splash on the music-theater scene — including the taping of their Aug. 20 concert in Merrillville, Ind., for an upcoming PBS special. Consisting of founder-creator Michael Ingersoll, Michael Cunio, Shonn Wiley and Christopher Kale Jones, the vocal group shares a stage musical history: all have previously starred in “Jersey Boys,” here in Chicago and/or on national tours of the show. You can catch their Rat Pack-style act when they headline the Star Plaza for the aforementioned television special, or via their first DVD/CD release due later this year.

Ingersoll, who cut his acting chops in a slew of Chicago and regional theater productions, spoke to the Sun-Times about the musical group he launched nearly three years ago.

Question: What’s it like to star in your own PBS special?

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Press: Rock n’ Roll with a Philanthropic Twist

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Under the Streetlamp 2

The importance of community sharing, investing in social good, and conscience capitalism has grown in the last few years with many organizations realizing the value of giving back to their community. Following the recent economic downturn, many entrepreneurs have shifted their thoughts from what is best for “me,” to synergistic business models that work with the community and focus on what is best for “us.” A great example of this forward-thinking outreach is the philanthropic contributions of the new hit show, “Under the Streetlamp.”

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LA Ovation Awards

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Michael joined his dear friend and former Jersey Boys co-star Erich Bergen as co-presenters at the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. The pair’s wickedly funny camaraderie delighted the sold-out crowd.  Backstage, Michael was interviewed by the LA Stage Alliance before the ceremony: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhTF_sb_Rc[/youtube] And here’s Erich Bergen looking dapper, Angela Ingersoll looking vivacious, and Michael Ingersoll … Read more

One More Moondance With You

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Sparks fly as a vivacious bride and dashing groom share the spotlight! Michael and Angela Ingersoll deliver a scintillating night of classic pop favorites. They recently shared the stage for a sparking celebration at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago. Contact the couple for your own enchanted evening.

Press: Jersey Boys Graduate to Under the Streetlamp

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During the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys’ remarkable 2 1/2-year run in Chicago, Michael Ingersoll took the stage eight times a week, portraying Nick Massi of the Four Seasons more than 1,000 times for roughly 1.3 million fans.

Then he spent Sundays and Mondays — his days off — making a name for himself by performing solo shows at a variety of local venues. Soon his fellow cast members began joining him for these gigs, and, even though they were prohibited from covering any material from Jersey Boys during these shows, it didn’t take them long to realize they might have something special on their hands. Something they could call their own.

Something called Under the Streetlamp.

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WJJG: Kevin Moore Show

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[jwplayer config=”Video Feed” mediaid=”412″] Enjoy an in-depth interview with Michael Ingersoll by Kevin Moore

California Dreamin’

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It’s official! Michael has relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles and now resides in sunny Studio City with his wife, Angela Ingersoll. As satirist Stephen Colbert once advised Michael and Angela through the famished and tipsy haze of an Emmy after-party, “Chicago’s a great place to fail.” After five formative years in the Second City, the … Read more

Cubs 7th Inning Stretch

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Comcast Sports Network

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY_FdiJv2Oo[/youtube] After singing Take Me Out with the Boys, Michael Ingersoll is interviewed in the broadcasting booth about Jersey Boys on Comcast Sports Network.

Cubs Opening Pitch

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Fools Fall in Love/LOVE

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd0NGSo406Y&list=PL823C509A2AC5F890&index=8&feature=plcp[/youtube] Michael and his band performing live in his wildly successful concert Steppin’ Out at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.

Day In, Day Out

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hgyHk423c&feature=BFa&list=PL823C509A2AC5F890&lf=plcp[/youtube] Michael and his band performing live in his wildly successful concert Steppin’ Out at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.

Press: Audiences Still Adore Jersey Boy Ingersoll

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Michael Ingersoll’s not saying “Bye Bye Baby” to the Chicago area yet. Although Jersey Boys, where Ingersoll has been performing as Nick Massi for more than two years, closed Sunday after 951 performances – making it the second-longest-running musical in Chicago history (after Wicked) – local audiences can still hear Ingersoll and the boys in a series of suburban benefit concerts.

Two January shows are already sold out, but there are still tickets left for a Saturday, Jan. 16, concert at Aurora’s Paramount Theatre and two February dates at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights. “These suburban communities have embraced me,” Ingersoll says. “Those people have made me successful.”

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Press: As Chicago Hit Ends its Run, One Voice Has Been There for Duration

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Jersey Boys came into Chicago walking like a man and leaves on its feet. The Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is closing Sunday after 951 performances and more than two years in the Loop, a nationally touring show that became a dedicated Chicago production. And when the curtain comes down at the Bank of America Theatre at the end of the 2 pm matinee, there will be one Jersey Boy who was there to see it first rise. Michael Ingersoll has played the character of bass guitarist Nick Massi for the entire run — from first “Sherry” in 2007 to last “Who Loves You.” He’s been bandmates with no fewer than three marquee Vallis.

“That’s why I think I actually know what Sunday will feel like,” Ingersoll says. A friend told him that he works in the goodbye business. Shows open and close, cast mates move on. “So I already know that bittersweet feeling,” he says, “it’ll just be times 19.”

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