Claire Sardina’s life story is coming to the big screen in “Song Sung Blue,” a biopic about Claire (Kate Hudson) and her husband Mike (Hugh Jackman) and their Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder. (Mike was Lightning, and Claire, Thunder.)
But on Dec. 30, Claire is heading to the kind of place where it all began for Lightning & Thunder: a Milwaukee-area bar.
Claire, who spends her winters in Arizona, will be in her native Milwaukee around the holidays, where Lightning & Thunder performed Neil Diamond-heavy sets, and paid tribute to artists like Patsy Cline and ABBA, from 1989 to 2006. Claire will perform at 6 p.m. Dec. 30 at Paulie’s Pub & Eatery, 8031 W. Greenfield Ave., in West Allis…