 Her first professional experience as a singer came while in school at Union College (in New Jersey), when she joined the rock band Eve's Garden.With that band, she played a number of dates as the opening act for groups such as the Classics IV, the Vagrants (Leslie West), and Ten Wheel Drive.Cheryl performed in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" and on Broadway in "The Last Sweet Days of Isaac", "Godspell", and "Jesus Christ Superstar".