Elgin fasten your seat belts…it’s going to be a crazy night with Chicago’s two wild and crazy guys – After Dark Award winners Daryl Nitz and George Howe. Celebrating a major milestone – the 25th anniversary of the Nitz/Howe Experience, the country’s longest running cabaret show, with over 1200 performances, the duo brings their act to the Elgin’s Hemmens, Theater in the Round (lower level) 45 Symphony Way, Sunday, November 24 at 7pm.

Tickets are $15 and available online at https://hemm.na.ticketsearch.com, by phone at 847-931-5900, or at box office.

Hailed as “the best party in town,” by New York’s Cabaret Scenes Magazine, the Nitz/ Howe Experience has been featured on WGN-TV and NBC-5, there is no other show like it! The show combines requests, audience participation and outrageous standup comedy. Coupled with Nitz’s 30 vocal impressions that include Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Carol Channing, Billie Holiday and even Edith Bunker, the duo’s spontaneous, zany antics makes for one wild entertainment experience.

Daryl Nitz has strong ties to the Elgin community. From his birth at the old Sherman Hospital, to attending Gifford Elementary School, then going onto Abbot Jr. High, where he was class president in 1979. Graduating Larkin High, in 1982, where he was also class president in 1981, Daryl performed in their production of Carousel. He attended Elgin Community College and began singing at Emmanuel Baptist Church on St Charles Street.

Daryl’s musical partner in crime, the multi-talented George Howe is an accomplished singer /actor/ pianist/ composer/ lyricist/ arranger, nominated last year for a Jefferson Award An in-demand songwriter, Howe has served as composer/lyricist for The Will Shakespeare Follies, The Three Seagulls (A Chekovian Extravaganza), I Know What You’re Doing This Summer, Ethel Merman’s Peter Pan and its sequel The Sound Of Merman. He has composed the scores for The Emperor’s Groovy New Clothes, Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch and Click Clack Moo Cows That Type for Lifeline Theatre’s Kid series as well as writing songs for The Jingle Elf Parade and the Miss Teen Pageant. As an actor, George has been featured in many stock and regional productions including the long-running Forever Plaid, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Sweeny Todd, Chicago and Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lloyd. He has also served as musical director for many of Chicago’s premiere cabaret singers.

There is nothing that Daryl Nitz and George Howe can’t or won’t do. They are two unique entertainers whose showmanship provide as Cabaret Hotline exclaims “a blockbuster evening of entertainment” and keep the audiences coming back for more.