10/29/2025
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Paul W. Thompson's career as a performer, teacher and writer for the theater, church and concert hal Thompson Music right away!
Paul is a professional singer, actor, pianist, musical director, vocal coach, teacher, composer and commentator. With a bachelor's degree in theater, and master's degrees in both music and business, he moves easily between the worlds of classical music, religious music, classic pop and musical theater. He has appeared onstage or in the orchestra pit in concerts, musicals, operettas and operas in o
10/29/2025
I’m a guest on a podcast!
Romance/Romance (with Paul W. Thompson) | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Paul W. Thompson joins Alex to talk about the 1988 Original Broadway Cast Album of Romance/Romance. Explore the most underrated score of the season!Music by Keith Hermann, lyrics, book, & direction by Barry Harman, with musical direction by Kathy Sommer and orchestrations by Michael Starobin.Str...
Pretty good singing for 63.
12/14/2023
A song I truly love. Out there!
"Out There" from Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," sung and played live by Paul W. Thompson "Out There" from Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," sung and played live by Paul W. Thompson at Davenport's Cabaret, Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 2023...
12/14/2023
Garland’s “Chicago!”
Judy Garland's "Chicago" sung by Paul W. Thompson in Chicago, December 8, 2023. Song by Fred Fisher. Judy Garland's version of "Chicago," from the Carnegie Hall album and her television show, sung by Paul W. Thompson in Chicago's Davenport's Cabaret on Decem...
12/14/2023
World premiere art song!
"I Want to See the World," World Premiere Performance on December 8, 2023. "I Want to See the World" (Art Song in English for Soprano or Tenor), World Premiere Piano/Vocal Performance by Paul W. Thompson on December 8, 2023 at Daven...
11/08/2023
One month from tonight: Paul W. Thompson and Friends: “SEE THE WORLD”
Songs of travel. Songs of special things. Songs of hopes and dreams.
This December, come SEE THE WORLD in new ways with Chicago performer and teacher Paul W. Thompson (Chicago Symphony Chorus, Second City), with special guests Marianne Culver, T. Patrick Davis, Joseph Alexander Gemmell, Kyle Martin, Julie Muccillo, Jennifer Stuart and Joyce Thomas.
Features Broadway songs, popular songs and more, written by Alan Menken, Maria Grever, John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein, Giuseppe Verdi, Rodgers and Hart and more, made famous by Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong and more.
Includes the world premiere art song, “I Want to See the World,” written and performed by Paul W. Thompson.
Celebrate the holiday season with songs we can all see and hear, from the world we can all see and hear.
$20 cover charge plus a two drink minimum, 21+
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Friday, December 8, 2023, 8 pm
Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret
1383 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
773-278-1830
"I'll Be Seeing You" (a capella) from RIGHT THIS WAY, sung at Davenport's Piano Bar and Cabaret, October 28, 2022.
"Always Better" from THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, performed at Davenport's Piano Bar and Cabaret, October 28, 2022.
"Why Can't I Walk Away?/Where Are All the People?" Performed by Paul W. Thompson at Davenport's Piano Bar and Cabaret, October 28, 2022.
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