Upcoming Events and Concert Dates
 l to r: Jenn Clodi, Connie Mulch, Kathy Fugate, Kay Love and Amalia LaViolette Ours is a Story of Friendship and Christian Fellowship. The five of us first sang together as "The Jeweltones" in the Spring of 2000. A community theatre production brought all of us together, and we soon discovered that, not only did we love singing together, we also cherished our time together, just being friends. It didn't take long for us to realize that we had something very special in our friendship. We have laughed together and cried together. We have listened to each other's problems and held each other's hands. We finish each other's sentences. We hug a lot. We have more fun together than we can express in words. People seeing our concert often comment on how our sincere caring for each other and support of each other comes across very powerfully to the audience. "The Jeweltones in Concert" isn't just a concert. It is a celebration - a celebration of our friendship, our Christian faith, and our love of music and performing. We hope we get the chance to share it with you!
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 Jenn has performed with several community theatre groups, the Cornerstone Chorale, the Trinity Choir, and the St. Louis Chamber Chorus. Favorite past roles include Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense, Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Tuptim in The King and I, for which she received an ARTS FOR LIFE* Best Supporting Actress nomination, Marion Thayer in TITANIC: The Musical (AFL Best Cameo Actress nomination), and Young Heidi Schiller in Follies. In real life, she teaches high school math. Most recently, Jenn premiered the role of wife to Jeff Clodi and relocated to Blue Springs, Missouri, near Kansas City. Even though she can't be with us all of the time, she will always be a Jeweltone, and she returns to St. Louis to perform with us whenever she can. |
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 Kathy is a full-time wife and mother who has been performing since junior high. She has appeared as the opening soloist at a benefit concert featuring John Selders of the Grammy-winning Edwin Hawkins Band. She has been performing in community theatre since 1998. Her favorite roles include Harriet in Bitter Sweet, Cinderella's Stepmother in Into the Woods, for which she received an ARTS FOR LIFE* Best Supporting Actress nomination, Martha in The Secret Garden (AFL nomination, Best Actress in a Featured Role), and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me. She also received an ARTS FOR LIFE* Best Cameo Actress nomination for her portrayal of Dinah Murphy in South Pacific. Most recently, she portrayed Stewardess Hutchinson in TITANIC: The Musical, her favorite show to date. Kathy is a former voice student of Cynthia Benavides. |
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 Amalia holds a Music Education degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was an alto section leader with the St. Louis Symphony Chorus for eight seasons, has performed twice at Carnegie Hall, and made her Symphony solo debut in 1996 with Mozart's Coronation Mass. She has performed in over 30 musicals in St. Louis and Washington, D.C. Favorite roles have included Manon in Bitter Sweet, for which she won an ARTS FOR LIFE* Best Supporting Actress Award, Rosalie in Carnival, for which she won an ARTS FOR LIFE Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role, Ado Annie in Oklahoma (AFL Best Supporting Actress nomination), Lady Thiang in The King and I (AFL Best Supporting Actress nomination), Alice Beane in TITANIC: The Musical (AFL recipient - Best Actress in a Comedic Role), the Queen in Cinderella (AFL Best Supporting Actress nomination) and Bobbi/Gabby in the Kirkwood Theatre Guild's production of City of Angels (AFL Best Actress in a Featured Role nomination). Amalia home schools her two children, Justine and Adam, and Justine (also the recipient of several Arts for Life nominations) performs regularly with Amalia in musicals in the St. Louis area. |
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 Kay is an accountant by day, but her real love is the theatre. She has performed in over 50 community theatre productions and was featured in four seasons at The Muny. Kay sang with the St. Louis Symphony Chorus for 15 years, the St. Louis Chamber Chorus for three years, has made several recordings, and performed at Carnegie Hall on three occasions. She is a featured vocalist with the Michael Brooks Band (www.michaelbrooks.com). Kay has received honors at the ARTS FOR LIFE* Awards as Best Actress in 2000 (Sarah/Sari/Lady Shayne in Bitter Sweet), Best Supporting Actress in 2001 (Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man) and 2002 (Countess Charlotte Malcolm in In a Little Night Music), Best Actress in a Featured Role in 2003 (Svetlana Sergievesky in Chess), and Best Actress in 2005 (Aurora/Spider Woman in Kiss of the Spider Woman). Other AFL nominations include Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Show, Emma Carew in Jekyll and Hyde and Blanche Ingram in Jane Eyre. Recent performances include The Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, Adriana in Boys from Syracuse, and a Siamese twin in Side Show. |
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 Connie has a Music Education degree and a Masters in Vocal Performance that she is using to teach piano and voice. After a long hiatus, Connie found her way back to the stage for a community theatre production of H.M.S. Pinafore. Since then, she has sung the roles of Laurie in Oklahoma (ARTS FOR LIFE* Best Actress nomination), Guenevere in Camelot (AFL Best Actress nomination), Ilona Ritter in She Loves Me (AFL Best Supporting Actress nomination) and Abigail Adams in 1776. She has also been found directing musically (Snoopy, Chess and City of Angels), and playing in the orchestra pit. Recently, Connie has appeared as Flo Owens in Picnic and Heidi Schiller in Follies. *For more information about the ARTS FOR LIFE organization or
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 How many Jeweltones will fit in a photo booth? We're going to have to go with five, because we could not have squeezed one more person into that booth! |
