Celebrate Pride Month with PRIDE ANTHEMS at the Lakeside Pavilion 6/24

The Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA) at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) on the College of DuPage (COD) campus is presenting a wide variety of exiting programming in conjunction with the upcoming WARHOL exhibition opening June 3 and continuing Sept. 10. The June 24 6 p.m. PRIDE ANTHEMS Concert, taking place outdoors at the MAC’s Lakeside Pavilion, located at 425 Fawell Blvd. in Glen Ellyn, is one of these events.

Celebrate Pride Month with a journey through the past 50 years of Pride anthems. From Donna Summer and Queen to George Michael, Erasure, Madonna, Lady Gaga and much more, these essential songs take you from disco to the present day. PRIDE ANTHEMS is a show for all ages to come together in song and celebration of where the LGBTQ+ community has come from and how far it has come since Stonewall.

Featured performers include Natalie Joy Johnson, recently seen as Suzy Solidor at LaJolla Playhouse in the west coast premiere of “Lempicka” and as Pat in “Kinky Boots” (Broadway); Kevin Smith Kirkwood most recently appeared onstage in the Off Broadway revival of "Kinky Boots" as the Referee Angel and as Victor in the Fulton Theater’s production of “Smokey Joe’s Café;” and Jon-Michael Reese is an award-winning queer performer based in Brooklyn last seen in the Tony Award winning “A Strange Loop.” Music director is Brian J. Nash an award-winning pianist, singer, musical director, orchestrator, and producer who has been the Music Director of many off-Broadway and regional musicals.

Admission is free, however, in the spirit of Warhol who often anonymously volunteered at food banks, a donation of a canned good for the COD Glen Ellyn Food Pantry requested. For more info: Warhol2023.org