THE FOUR C NOTES | Batavia Fine Arts Centre (2024)

DANIEL TATAR: Dan’s Chicago credits include The Baker in Into the Woods (Music Theater Works), Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Drury Lane Oakbrook), Big River and Miss Saigon (Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (original cast, Royal George), Pacific Overtures (Chicago Shakespeare), and The Ballad of Little Jo (Steppenwolf Theatre). Spending the last decade in Los Angeles, Daniel created, produced, and performed with The Company Men, and was seen as Jamie in The Last Five Years, Baby (opposite Kerry Butler), Hairspray (with Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Nick Jonas), Denny in Life Could Be A Dream, and Fervio in the Carnegie Hall concert of Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. Television credits include: 90210, CSI:NY, and Grey’s Anatomy, and various commercials. Voiceover credits include American Idol, The Game Show Network, Volkswagen, and as Chomp the Beaver in Leapfrog’s “Scout and Friends” series. www.danieltatar.com

DEVIN DeSANTIS: Devin is a performer in the Chicagoland area, where some of his favorite credits include Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (Jeff Award Nomination Best Actor), Marius in Les Miserables (Jeff Award Nomination Best Supporting Actor), Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid (Paramount Theatre); Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (Drury Lane); Frank Churchill in Emma (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Matthew in Altar Boyz Chicago (Broadway Playhouse); Anyone Can Whistle starring Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, and The Most Happy Fella starring George Hearn (Ravinia Festival); he spent 4 years as a singer in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes (Radio City Music Hall). Devin is a resident Guest Artist with the Colorado Symphony and a lead singer with Bluewater Kings Band in Chicago. He also spends a lot of his time helping people all around the country grow their families through adoption as a consultant with RG Adoption Consulting. He just wrapped up playing Charlie Price in the regional premiere of Kinky Boots at Paramount Theatre in Aurora, IL.

JERRY KELEL– Jerry is originally from Detroit Michigan and studied computers and musical theatre at Oakland University before moving to Chicago to pursue a performing arts career. After several years working at venues like the Royal George Theater, Ravinia Festival, and Pheasant Run he transitioned to the realm of the corporate IT world. He currently works for one of the largest Chicago law firms, Sidley Austin. While not his full-time job, he loves the opportunity to perform with the Four C Notes, as well as popping up on stage from time to time at local theaters. He is also part of local wedding/cover band called, Time of Your Life.

Performing since the age of 6, John Michael Coppola has had the good fortune of appearing on the stages of some of the top regional and Off-Broadway theatres in the US. Among them: The Duke Theatre, the Promenade Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Goodspeed Opera House, Stages St. Louis, Ravinia, American Theater Company, and the Marriott Theatre. Career highlights also include appearing on the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as sharing stages with Tony Award winners Patti LuPone, George Hearn, and Patirck Cassidy. During his near 20 year career, his most notable success was his appearance in the Chicago and Las Vegas companies of the Tony Award-winning musical, Jersey Boys, where he understudied and performed the role of Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons, as well as served as the production’s dance captain. JMC has also been seen on tour throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including multiple productions of She Loves Me, 42nd Street, Flight of The Lawnchair Man, Hot Shoe Shuffle, and Singin’ in the Rain. As of 2013, he is on a hiatus from theater projects to concentrate on THE FOUR C NOTES, which he created in 2013 and his solo concert, A JERSEY VOICE: Sinatra to Springsteen…and Everyone in Between, which he debuted in 2011. www.johnmichaelcoppola.com