Who Left Straight No Chaser 2022

Shortly after Straight No Chaser released its first album, Steve Morgan left the group in 2009 to get a master’s degree and start working in Cincinnati as a financial analyst.

“That’s where the real fun is,” Morgan joked during a phone call from Fort Myers, Florida, where the a cappella group was doing a show.

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Morgan, who rejoined the ensemble earlier this decade, and the rest of Straight No Chaser will perform on Thursday at the Palace Theatre.

In 1996, Morgan was one of nine students at Indiana University who formed the group.

“Most of us hadn’t done much a cappella before, but we all had backgrounds in choir or theater or other kinds of singing,” Morgan said. “When we first got together, we were part of this big show choir at the university.”

After they graduated, they went their separate ways, with Morgan going on to work in musical theater on Broadway.

While the men were still at Indiana, some of their performances had been recorded, including a comic take on “The 12 Days of Christmas” in 1998.

One of the original members posted it on YouTube in 2006 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the group’s founding. It took off, and the group was offered a record deal.

But in 2008, when “Holiday Spirits” was released, the possibility existed that the group would be a one-hit wonder.

“At the time we did the first recording, I was still in ‘Mamma Mia’ on Broadway,” Morgan said. “My wife was pregnant with our first child, and we were looking to get out of New York City. It was like, ‘I have to get a big boy job now.’”

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By 2012, Morgan was rethinking his choice.

“The grass is always greener, you know?” he said.

A spot opened in the group when one of the other members left, and Morgan jumped back in.

“I thought, ‘This is what I love,’ and my wife encouraged me,” he said. “That made the decision much easier.”

Besides singing, Morgan serves as the dance captain and self-described “energy guy.”

“I love getting up there and running with what the crowd wants to do and bringing a good time,” he said.

Six original members are part of the current nine-person version of Straight No Chaser. Whenever a member leaves, he is replaced by an alumnus of the college group, which continues actively at Indiana University under the name Another Round.

“Every year, we go back to Bloomington and meet with the guys,” Morgan said. “They changed their name after there were some unscrupulous promoters who were booking them and promoting them as us.”

This year, the group has been touring since the end of October, sprinkling in a few holiday songs along the way.

“We have so many places that we hit at the beginning of the tour that we don’t get back to during the holidays, and people want to hear us sing holiday songs,” he said.

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The Palace Theatre show will be about half holiday music and half other songs, including those from their recently released album, “Open Bar,” and some old favorites.

“One of the calling cards of our show is that we do music from the ’50s up to what is on the radio today,” Morgan said. “There’s something that my parents grew up with, and there’s something my kids listen to on the radio.”

That means that the shows appeal to a wide age range.

“We see a lot of the same fans year after year. We’ll have three or four generations all coming to see the show together. They tell us that we are one of our holiday traditions, and it’s not really the holidays until they have come to see our show.”

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Who: Straight No Chaser

Where: Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St.

Contact: 614-469-0939, www.capa.com; www.ticketmaster.com

Showtime: 8 p.m. Thursday

Admission: $34.50 to $62.50

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