The 17th
Annual MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Awards
ceremony will be held on Monday, April 14th, 2002 at SYMPHONY SPACE
(Broadway at 95th Street - 212-864-1414), beginning at 7:30 PM (doors
open at 7:00).
MAC
CELEBRATES THE BEST OF THE 2002-2003 CABARET SEASON AT SYMPHONY
SPACE
BARBARA
CARROLL TO RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
AND MARY CLEERE HARAN HONORED WITH BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD
Over
100 Vocalists, Comedians, Jazz Performers, Impersonators, Songwriters,
Original Revues, Directors, Musical Directors Receive Nominations
Monday, April 14th At The Peter Norton Symphony Space
The Best
of Cabaret will be celebrated when The Manhattan Association of
Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) presents the 2003 MAC Awards on Monday,
April 14th at The Peter Norton SYMPHONY SPACE (Broadway at 95th
Street - 212-864-1414) at 7:30 pm. MAC will honor master Jazz pianist
Barbara Carroll with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Oscar and Grammy
Award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz and International
chanteuse Mary Cleere Haran will be honored with Board of Directors
Awards. Award-winning performers, Colette Hawley and Jay Rogers
will share the stage as Master of Ceremonies. David Maiocco will
serve as Musical Director.
The producer,
Barry Levitt, and the director, Lennie Watts, will collaborate on
the star-packed event to include live performances and/or appearances
(to date) by Steven Brinberg, Alison Bryner, Ann Hampton Callaway,
Scott Coulter, Joan Crowe, Bill Daugherty, Tommy Femia, Michael
Holland, Lina Koutrakos, Quinn Lemley, Jay Leonhart, Karen Mack,
Sharon McKnight, Karen Mason, Mark Nadler, Phyllis Pastore, Bobby
Peaco, Christine Pedi, Eric Pickering, Ron Poole, Anne Runolfsson,
Richard Skipper, Rick Skye, Anne Steele, Billy Stritch, Chuck Sweeney,
Julie Wilson, and Christine Zbornick (ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE).
Bobby Short
and Michael Feinstein will present Barbara Carroll with her Lifetime
Achievement Award. Ben Vereen will be on hand to present Stephen
Schwartz with his Board of Directors Award and perform with other
artists in a medley of Stephen's songs. Award-winning performers,
Colette Hawley and Jay Rogers will share the stage as Master of
Ceremonies. David Maiocco will serve as Musical Director.
The MAC
Awards are the culmination of a four-week celebration of Manhattan's
cabarets and nightclubs and their abundance of live talent. The
MAC Awards are presented annually to honor achievements in cabaret,
comedy and jazz. The Awards encompass more than two dozen categories,
including vocalists and vocal groups, piano bar and jazz performers,
comedy and musical performers, impersonators, writers of songs and
special material, directors, musical directors and technical directors,
recordings, and more.
MANHATTAN
ASSOCIATION OF CABARETS & CLUBS (MAC) was founded in 1983 to advance
the art and business of live entertainment. A trade association,
its activities are designed to heighten public awareness of the
field's contributions and vitality, to honor its creativity, to
build its current and future audiences, and to speak out as an influential
voice on behalf of MAC members and the industry at large. Members
of MAC include cabaret, comedy and jazz artists, directors and musical
directors, technical directors, musicians, club owners and booking
managers, composers and lyricists, journalists and publicists, artists'
managers and agents, and friends and supporters of live entertainment.
2003
MAC AWARDS NOMINEES
FEMALE VOCALIST
BARBARA BRUSSELL
AUDREY LAVINE
JULIE REYBURN
MAJOR FEMALE VOCALIST
BETTY BUCKLEY
KAREN MASON
KT SULLIVAN
NEW YORK FEMALE DEBUT
MYCHELLE COLLEARY
LORINDA LISITZA
PAM TATE
MALE VOCALIST
DAVID GURLAND
MARCUS SIMEONE
LENNIE WATTS
MAJOR MALE VOCALIST
DAVID CAMPBELL
PETER CINCOTTI
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
NEW YORK MALE DEBUT
ED ALSTROM
BRANDON CUTRELL
JUSTIN DANIEL
JAZZ VOCALIST
NATALIE DOUGLAS
LAURIE KRAUZ
JENNIFER PACE
FEMALE MUSICAL COMEDY
ELAINE BRIER
SHARON MCNIGHT
GEORGA OSBORNE
MALE MUSICAL COMEDY
JOHN FLYNN
MORGAN SILLS
MICHAEL VACCARO
IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION
STEVEN BRINBERG
TOMMY FEMIA
CHUCK SWEENEY
FEMALE STAND-UP COMIC
KIM CEA
POPPI KRAMER
NANCY WITTER
MALE STAND-UP COMIC
ROCK ALBERS
MARK MCCOMBS
SHAWN MONINGER
VOCAL DUO/GROUP
THE ACCIDENTALS
KAREN MACK & MICHAEL HOLLAND
UPTOWN EXPRESS
REVUE
MIKEY WRITES IT!
PLACES PLEASE!
WHAT IN THE WORLD?!
COMEDY/IMPROV/MUSICAL
COMEDY DUO/GROUP
JUDY GARLAND & LIZA MINNELLI LIVE: Tommy Femia & Christine Pedi
LOVELY: Kelly Briggs and Jerry Christakos
THE MARCY & ZINA SHOW: Goldrich and Heisler
VARIETY PRODUCTION
OR SERIES
JAMIE DEROY & FRIENDS
NEW MONDAYS
POOLE PARTY
DIRECTOR
PHIL GEOFFREY BOND
ERV RAIBLE
LENNIE WATTS
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
DICK GALLAGHER
DAVID MAIOCCO
ALEX RYBECK
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
MICHAEL BARBIERI
ROBERT KNEELAND
SHAWN MONINGER
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT
INSTRUMENTALIST
BOBBY PEACO
JERRY SCOTT
TRACY STARK
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT
SINGING ENTERTAINER
JENIFER KRUSKAMP
ERIC PICKERING
RUBY RIMS
RECORDING OF THE
YEAR: FEMALE VOCALIST
Klea Blackhurst, EVERYTHING THE TRAFFIC WILL ALLOW
Audrey Lavine, AT HOME WITH ARLEN
Karen Mack, TAKE THAT
RECORDING OF THE
YEAR: MALE VOCALIST
Scott Coulter, SCOTT COULTER
John DePalma, THE SONG IS MINE
Joseph "Go" Mahan, JOSEPH MAHAN
RECORDING OF THE
YEAR: MAJOR ARTIST
Ann Hampton Callaway, SIGNATURE
Michael Feinstein, MICHAEL FEINSTEIN AND THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
KT Sullivan, LADIES OF THE SILVER SCREEN
RECORDING OF THE
YEAR: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Jamie deRoy & friends, JAMIE DEROY & FRIENDS: FAMILY
The Lounge-O-Leers, NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL THE LOUNGE-O-LEERS TWO
Jerry Scott with Various Artists, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
SONG OF THE YEAR
Jason Robert Brown, IF I TOLD YOU NOW
Maria Gentile and Caren Cole, IF I WAS A BOY
Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, LOVE LIKE BREATHING
Carol Hall, I DREAM IN TECHNICOLOR
Steve Marzullo and James Baldwin, SOMEDAYS
SPECIAL MATERIAL
OF THE YEAR
Julie Gold, THE HEARTBREAK DIET
Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, BALTIMORE
Rick Jensen, YOU'D BETTER SAY YES! (TO CHRISTMAS)
Mary Liz McNamara, HAIKU
Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, SENSITIVE SONG
2003
MAC AWARD WINNERS
2003
MAC AWARD SHOW REPORT
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