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Recent News

Interested in joining CGMC?

CGMC is taking new members for our upcoming Spring 2024 show “Party Like It’s 1983.” Vocal placements are January 4 & 6, 2024.

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Get tickets to The Big 4-0, ho, ho!

Celebrating 40 years of CGMC! Featuring festive arrangements from current AD Jimmy Morehead and a plethora of music from Chorus Alumni.

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CGMC: Proud to be #GaYmerican

Gallery

Lipstick & Lyrics: Vice Versa 2018

Hitting Rock Bottom: KnoW Hope 2017

*B-Town: From Barbershop to Boybands 2017

L & L: Save the Unicorn Club! : 2016

Miracle on Thirty-Funk Street: Holiday 2015

Choral, Cabaret and Musical Theater all Rolled into One

With more than 150 singing members backed by a small army of volunteers, the CGMC family covers a diverse cross-section of the Chicago metropolitan area. Under the visionary guidance and inspired direction of Artistic Director, Jimmy Morehead, CGMC delivers a distinctive brand of entertainment that keeps our audience coming back again and again. Our members log thousands of hours annually to accomplish an ambitious schedule of performances, fund-raisers and charitable appearances.

Our Mission

Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus is an inclusive, community-based performing arts organization that creates musical experiences to entertain and enlighten, inspire change, and build community. Through colorful performances that blend traditional choral music with musical theater, jazz and pop, and a gay aesthetic, we seek to delight our audiences, enrich our members and explore issues relevant to LGBT people and their allies—enlivening Chicago’s cultural landscape and creating a better community for all.