| 2022 MAC Award Nominees Announced! | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 01:48 pm EST 03/07/22 | |
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| ANNOUNCING THE 2022 MAC AWARD NOMINEES The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) is pleased to announce the 2022 MAC Award nominees. The nominees were determined by votes cast by the active MAC membership, except for the song and recording categories, which were determined by special committees. As previously announced, CHITA RIVERA and MARTA SANDERS each receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. The MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION and LENNIE WATTS each receive a MAC Board of Directors Award. AARON LEE BATTLE is the Hanson Award winner, and CABARET ON THE COUCH receives the Ruth Kurtzman Benefit Series Award. JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY/PAJAMA CAST PARTY receives the Show of the Year Award The winners will be revealed as the envelopes are opened live at the 36th Annual MAC Awards on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:00 pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The MAC Awards ceremony is produced by MICHAEL KIRK LANE and directed by LENNIE WATTS, with musical direction by YAZUHIKO FUKUOKA. The event is open to the public. Tickets are available at www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-36th-mac-awards. For additional information, visit www.MACnyc.com. The 2022 MAC Award Nominees are: FEMALE VOCALIST SUSAN MACK Music in the Air Birdland Theater AMY BETH WILLIAMS Beautiful Mystery: The Songs of Leonard Cohen; A Thousand Beautiful Things Don't Tell Mama DEBORAH ZECHER Jewish Caroling: The Music of Carole King, Carole Bayer Sager, and Carolyn Leigh Don't Tell Mama MALE VOCALIST SEAN PATRICK MURTAGH Summer Sunday Soiree, Holiday Test Drive IX West Bank Cafe, The Green at Lincoln Center, Martuni's Piano Bar (SF) KIM DAVID SMITH Mostly Marlene, A Wery Weimar Christmas Club Cumming (NYC), Club Cumming on the Coast (Kennebunkport, ME), Adelaide Cabaret Festival DORIAN WOODRUFF Studio Musician: The Music of Manilow Pangea MAJOR ARTIST - FEMALE MEG FLATHER Rodgers and Hammerstein 2021 Don't Tell Mama TANYA MOBERLY I Love New York Songwriters Part II Don't Tell Mama GABRIELLE STRAVELLI Various different shows Birdland, West Bank Cafe MAJOR ARTIST - MALE PETER CINCOTTI Birdland JASON KRAVITS Off the Top Birdland CRAIG POMRANZ Welcome Back; We're Back Again with a Holiday Show Pangea DAVID SABELLA 25Chicago25; Pandemic Relief Feinstein's/54 Below; Pangea NEW YORK DEBUT RODERICK FERGUSON Man Overboard!!! Don't Tell Mama CAROLYN GERMAN Unsolicited Advice Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex BRUCE SABATH Searching for Tevye Don't Tell Mama CELEBRITY ARTIST NATALIE DOUGLAS Best of Tributes: The Women (Nina, Dolly, Roberta); Best of Tributes: The Men (Nat, Sammy, Elvis); Tributes: James Taylor; To Nina: Tribute to Nina Simone; Four Women, Four Decades Birdland Theater, Birdland Jazz Club, Feinstein's at the Nikko (S.F.), Feinstein's at Hotel Carmichael (Indiana), Gulfshore Playhouse (Naples, FL) ANDRÉ De SHIELDS Black by Popular Demand Feinstein's/54 Below NORM LEWIS (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays Feinstein's/54 Below BILLY STRITCH Billy's Place Birdland LILLIAS WHITE The Green Room 42 IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/DRAG ARTIST FLOTILLA DeBARGE Corona and FLO; Shots & Shrieks with Nurse Fatass; Do They Flo It's Christmas? Pangea JINKX MONSOON AND BenDeLaCreme The Return of the Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show Town Hall, Lincoln Theatre (Washington, D.C.) CISSY WALKEN Hammered Drag Brunch; The Invasion; The Simsinz; Completely The Rusty Nail, Stonewall Inn, Caveat, Rockbar NYC MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER LEANNE BORGHESI Borghesi's Back Don't Tell Mama ANDREA BELL WOLFF Adventures in Vegas Don't Tell Mama DUO/GROUP ELENA BENNETT AND FRED BARTON Bennett and Barton: Back in the Swing of Things! West Bank Cafe MICHAEL GARIN AND MARDIE MILLIT The Michael and Mardie Show West Bank Cafe DARNELL WHITE AND DAVID LaMARR Fully Vaccinated Don't Tell Mama MAJOR DUO/GROUP JIM CARUSO AND BILLY STRITCH Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel CLEARLY NOW (Sean Harkness, Lina Koutrakos, Marcus Simeone) Clearly Now, Season 3 Don't Tell Mama, Pangea ERIC COMSTOCK AND BARBARA FASANO Birdland PIANO BAR INSTRUMENTALIST NATE BUCCIERI Don't Tell Mama, Brandy's; The Duplex GERRY DIEFFENBACH Don't Tell Mama; The Duplex; Stonewall Inn WILLIAM TN HALL Don't Tell Mama; Brandy's MICHAEL McASSEY Pangea DARNELL WHITE Brandy's; Stonewall Inn PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER - FEMALE ELAINE BRIER Don't Tell Mama MARIA GENTILE Brandy's; Stonewall Inn; The Duplex TARA MARTINEZ Don't Tell Mama ALISON NUSBAUM Don't Tell Mama; Brandy's PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER - MALE JONATHAN HOOVER Don't Tell Mama BRIAN KALINOWSKI Don't Tell Mama PAUL PILCZ Don't Tell Mama JON SATROM Don't Tell Mama, Brandy's RESTAURANT/HOTEL LOUNGE/HAPPY HOUR ENTERTAINER YAZ FUKUOKA Don't Tell Mama ERIC YVES GARCIA West Bank Cafe RICKY RITZEL Don't Tell Mama SHEREE SANO Chez Josephine ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTALIST STEVE DOYLE, Bass Cast Party (Birdland); A Swinging Birdland Christmas (Birdland); Karen Oberlin and Bewitched: The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart (Birdland) MATT SCHARFGLASS, Bass Tanya Moberly/I Love New York Songwriters Part II (Don't Tell Mama), Marnie Klar/A Woman's Prerogative (Don't Tell Mama), Debbie Zecher/Jewish Caroling (Don't Tell Mama), Scott Coulter & Friends/From Dolly Parton to David Bowie (Feinstein's/54 Below) SKIP WARD, Bass Sue Matsuki & Gregory Toroian: Sunday Open Mic & Jazz Brunch (Pangea), Brenda Braxton/After Hours! (Feinstein's/54 Below); Maria Corsaro/You Taught My Heart to Sing(Pangea); Kati Neiheisel/Yesterday… Once More (Pangea); Sidney Myer (Pangea) RECURRING SERIES THE LINEUP WITH SUSIE MOSHER Produced by Susie Mosher and Hope Royaltey; music direction by Brad Simmons Birdland Theater RICKY RITZEL'S BROADWAY Created and produced by Ricky Ritzel; staged and choreographed by Jay Rogers and Aaron Morishita Don't Tell Mama SALON Founder, Artistic Director, Host: Mark Janas; Executive Director: Tanya Moberly Don't Tell Mama REVUE OR SPECIAL PRODUCTION RITA HAYWORTH - THE HEAT IS ON! Starring Quinn Lemley, written and directed by Carter Inskeep, produced by Paul Horton, musical director Tom Wilson, costume designer Wendall Going Don't Tell Mama A SWINGING BIRDLAND CHRISTMAS Created by and starring Billy Stritch, Klea Blackhurst, Jim Caruso Birdland RIAN KEATING: TIME STAMPS - LIFE FRAGMENTS IN STORY AND SONG Written and performed by Rian Keating; directed by Tanya Moberly; musical direction by Woody Regan Don't Tell Mama VIRTUAL PRESENTATION CABARET CONVERSATIONS Conceived, curated, and hosted by Michael Kirk Lane; produced by 92Y School of Music 92Y web site MARDIE MILLIT: LIVE FROM LOCKDOWN! Mardie Millit: producer, writer, director, videographer, and star; Michael Garin: pianist, arranger, occasional singer OPEN MAC LIVE! Hosted by and principal performer: Michael McAssey, produced by Peter Nictakis Facebook, YouTube WEEKLY VIRTUAL SPOTLIGHT ON YOU OPEN MIC Produced and emceed by Natasha Castillo Facebook, YouTube EMCEE JIM CARUSO Jim Caruso's Cast Party Birdland SUSIE MOSHER The Lineup with Susie Mosher Birdland Theater DIRECTOR BARRY KLEINBORT Claudine Cassan-Jellison/Hey Frenchy: Stories and Songs from the Pantry (Don't Tell Mama); Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller/Sin Twisters (Feinstein's/54 Below); Karen Mason/Christmas! Christmas! Christmas! (Laurie Beechman); Haley Swindal/Back in Business (Feinstein's/54 Below) LINA KOUTRAKOS Dorian Woodruff/Studio Musician: The Music of Manilow (Pangea); Kati Neiheisel/Yesterday…Once More (Pangea); Susan Mack/Music in the Air (Birdland) TANYA MOBERLY Amy Beth Williams/Beautiful Mystery - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Don't Tell Mama); Rian Keating/Time Stamps - Life Fragments in Story and Song (Don't Tell Mama); Bruce Sabath/Searching for Tevye (Don't Tell Mama); Marnie Klar/A Woman's Prerogative (Don't Tell Mama); Frank McDonough/Legends of Las Vegas (Don't Tell Mama) MUSICAL DIRECTOR DARYL KOJAK Celia Berk/Porch Performances (Music at the Mansion); Collection of Solos and Duets from the Great American Songbook/ Beloved Songs from Stage and Screen (Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY); Tulis McCall/Tulis Talks and Sings (Don't Tell Mama); ASA/Cabaret Scenes Magazine's 25th Anniversary (The Green Room 42) TRACY STARK Sidney Myer/Sidney Myer at Pangea (Pangea); Meg Flather/Rodgers and Hammerstein 2021 (Don't Tell Mama); Kim David Smith/Mostly Marlene (Club Cumming); Brenda Braxton/After Hours (Feinstein's/54 Below); Alice Ripley/Alice Ripley in Concert (The Green Room 42) BILLY STRITCH Cast Party (Birdland), Marilyn Maye (Birdland); Linda Eder/Feinstein's/54 Below; LuAnn DeLessups (Feinstein's/54 Below) GREGORY TOROIAN Sue Matsuki/This Broad's Way (Pangea), Maria Corsaro/You Taught My Heart to Sing (Pangea); Kati Neiheisel/Yesterday… Once More (Pangea), Dorian Woodruff/Studio Musician-The Music of Manilow (Pangea); Jackie Draper/Spreadin' Rhythm Around (Laurie Beechman Theatre) TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ADAM DeCARLO Meg Flather/Rodgers and Hammerstein 2021; Angela Bacari/One Night Only; Claudine Cassan-Jellison/Hey Frenchy: Stories and Songs from the Pantry; Deborah Zecher/Jewish Caroling; Ricky Ritzel's Broadway (all at Don't Tell Mama) KJ HARDY (LIGHTS) AND AMANDA RAYMOND (SOUND) Marilyn Maye's 93rd Birthday Celebration; André De Shields/Black by Popular Demand; Jason Danieley/Reflections; Kelli O'Hara/Diamond Series; Paulo Szot/An Enchanted Evening (all at Feinstein's/54 Below) ROCKY NOEL Leanne Borghesi/Borghesi's Back (Don't Tell Mama); Our Sinatra (Birdland Theater); Quinn Lemley/The Heat Is On (Don't Tell Mama); Marnie Klar/A Woman's Prerogative (Don't Tell Mama); Claudine Cassan-Jellison/ Hey Frenchy: Stories and Songs from the Pantry (Don't Tell Mama) ALISON NUSBAUM Rian Keating/Time Stamps; Bruce Sabath/Searching for Tevye; David LaMarr and Darnell White/Fully Vaccinated; Timothy Quinlan/All My Stupid Jobs; Andrea Bell Wolff/Showgirl (all at Don't Tell Mama) KELLY WOHLFORD Tanya Moberly/I Love NY Songwriters Part II; Amy Beth Williams/A Thousand Beautiful Things; American Popular Song Society; Cathy Taylor/Life Hack Unabridged; Jill Senter/La Soirée (all at Don't Tell Mama) SONG INSIDE Music and Lyrics by Meg Flather JUST SAY GOODBYE Music by John Forster, Lyrics by John Forster and Harriet Goldberg LET THE MUSIC PLAY Music and Lyrics by Paul Rolnick and David Friedman WARP AND WEAVE Music and Lyrics by John Forster WHILE I'M STILL HERE Music and Lyrics by Bob Levy COMEDY/NOVELTY SONG BOO HOO Music by John Forster, Lyrics by John Forster, Hillary Rolls, Tom Toce HELIUM Music and Lyrics by John Forster I SURVIVED YOU Music and Lyrics by Bob Levy THOSE YEAR-END HOT KISSES Music and Lyrics by John A. Todras YOU CAN KEEP THE WINGS Music and Lyrics by Carolyn German RECORDING (LaMott Friedman Award) TINA BURNER Maybe This Time CHIP DEFFAA / VARIOUS ARTISTS Chip Deffaa's Irving Berlin: Love Songs and Such DAWN DEROW My Ship, Songs from 1941 BOB LEVY While I'm Still Here MARYA ZIMMET On the Road to Love MAJOR RECORDING PHIL GEOFFREY BOND / VARIOUS ARTISTS Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions Vol 1 CLEARLY NOW (Sean Harkness, Lina Koutrakos, Marcus Simeone) Clearly Now GAY MARSHALL Back on Boogie Street - The Songs of Leonard Cohen KAREN MASON Let the Music Play DAVID SABELLA Time Heals |
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