The 19th
Annual MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Awards
ceremony were held on Monday, April 25th at SYMPHONY SPACE (Broadway
at 95th Street. NYC), beginning at 7:30 PM.
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.
2005
MAC AWARDS WINNERS
FEMALE VOCALIST
NATALIE DOUGLAS
MALE
VOCALIST
BRANDON CUTRELL
NEW
YORK DEBUT - FEMALE
MAUDE MAGGART
NEW
YORK DEBUT - MALE
RITT HENN
MAJOR
ENGAGEMENT
KAREN MASON
STAND-UP
COMEDY/MONOLOGY
NANCY WITTER
IMPERSONATION
CHUCK SWEENEY (PEGGY LEE)
MUSICAL
COMEDY PERFORMER
RAY JESSELL
VOCAL
OR MUSICAL COMEDY DUO/GROUP
MARCUS SIMEONE & EVA LADAS
REVUE
THE JOHNNY MERCER BIRTHDAY SHOW
VARIETY
PRODUCTION/RECURRING SERIES OR SPECIAL PRODUCTION
NEW MONDAYS
PIANO
BAR/RESTAURANT ENTERTAINER
LESLIE ANDERSON
PIANO
BAR/RESTAURANT INSTRUMENTALIST
JERRY SCOTT
DIRECTOR
PHIL GEOFFREY BOND
MUSICAL
DIRECTOR
ALEX RYBECK
TECHNICAL
DIRECTOR
THOMAS HONECK
RECORDING
OF THE YEAR
Ann Hampton Callaway, SLOW
SONG
OF THE YEAR
Ann Hampton Callaway, "MY ANSWERED PRAYER"
SPECIAL
MUSICAL MATERIAL OF THE YEAR
Ray Jessel, "THE SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS BLUES"
HANSON AWARD WINNER
Lucille Carr-Kaffashan
2005
MAC AWARD NOMINEES
2005
MAC AWARD SHOW REPORT
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