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DANCE WITH NANCY!

Nancy offers dance instruction in ballroom, swing, latin, lindy hop, wedding day, party, country line and partner dance tutorials at DanceWithNancy.com. Nancy's music and step sheets are available here. 


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Nancy's audiobook narrations on Audible.com can now be previewed online!

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tHE NEWEST SINGLE FROM
​NANCY HAYS & tHE hEFFERNANS!

​Nancy Hays & The Heffernans have recorded a love song for anyone who misses family, friends and home. Duet lead vocals, solo violin strains and sweet family harmonies wrap around Nancy's personal tribute to her birth place in the Midwest.
Available on all streaming platforms.
Works with the line dance from "Come Dance with Me"!



​check out more of  recordings OF NANCY & her family on HeffernanTalent.com

Judy & Liza:
​"Once in a Lifetime" 

In 2020, Nancy Hays Entertainment, Inc. co-produced the critically acclaimed, Judy & Liza, the London Palladium Concert- A Tribute at The Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago. 

Check out the reviews HERE
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For more information on this show visit: JudyLizaTribute.com 

"judy & liza" featured on wgn Radio!

reviews of nancy:

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“A central performance from Nancy Hays that emphasizes vocal style and finesse."
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
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​“A comic touch by the delightful Nancy Hays”
​Alan Bresloff,
Around Town Chicago Review ,
The Pirates of Penzance
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"M'Lynn, Shelby's mother and friend of the other women, is played perfectly by Nancy Hays, who accurately shows the delicate balance of love, pride and fear, mothers have for their children." 
Sammantha Pidde,
My Carroll County News
​Steel Magnolias
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"Nancy Hays truly shines as Tennessee Williams’ fading southern belle, this actress absolutely commands the stage."
Colin Douglas,
Chicago Theatre Review,
The Glass Menagerie
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Ms. Hays, has a gorgeous, velvety voice and a captivating smile."
Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review

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"Nancy Hays nearly threatens to walk off with the show..."
Patrick O’Brien, Chicagoland Musical Theater Review

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"Hays did a wonderful job emulating a tumultuous mother-and-daughter relationship while also convincing us of her unconditional love for her daughter"
Robert Harling,
River Cities Reader Review
​Steel Magnolias
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“Nancy Hays is deliciously sexy Hedy LaRue. Nancy plays Hedy as if the role were written expressly for her”
​Colin Douglass,
​Chicago Theater Review
"As for Hays, her performance was especially stellar when it came to the play's more serious and dramatic scenes. In fact, the woman seated next to me began to sob uncontrollably during the parts in which Hays was lamenting her daughter’s circumstances." 
Robert Harling,
River Cities Reader Review
​Steel Magnolias
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"Hays never drops her energy. She can hoof up a storm to Clayton Cross’s spirited choreography..." 
Stage and Cinema, Lawrence Bommer
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​“Very sexy Nancy Hays as Hedy LaRue (she is a delight)”
Alan Bresloff,
Around Town Chicago
"...Nancy Hays, as Mame Dennis, is a fabulous Mame."
 Tom Williams, Chicago Critic​
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​“Skilled comedienne,
Nancy Hays”
Lawrence Bommer, Stage and Cinema 



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“The leading lady of Light Opera Works's 50th-anniversary revival of the show, belter Nancy Hays, looks good and sounds great”
Chicago Reader by Albert Williams​
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“Nancy Hays nails Hedy’s voice while playing her lovable enough to avoid the groan-worthy stereotype of office bombshell”
Ellen Beth Gill, 
​Splash Magazine Review