BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – A group of Illinois Wesleyan alumni will have the unique opportunity to appear on the farewell season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, performing with members of their choir on an episode airing Tuesday, Sept. 14.
The four alumni: Mark Tomasino ’06, Joan (Teitelman) Cinquegrani ’06, Hilary Barry ’06, and Angela Latkowski ’07 are part of Wicker Park Choral Singers (WPCS), which will perform behind the Grammy award-winning duo, The Judds.
Tomasino founded WPCS in 2008, but never dreamed it would land them a spot on America’s longest-running daytime television talk show. The group got their chance when a member of WPCS jokingly offered the choir’s services to a friend who is an assistant executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show. “He called us literally the next day and said, ‘You’re never going to believe this, but we need singers for the show,’ ” said Tomasino.