The 19th Annual
MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Awards ceremony
will be held on Monday, April 25that SYMPHONY SPACE (Broadway at 95th
Street. NYC), beginning at 7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00).
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 NOMINEES
FEMALE VOCALIST
LISA ASHER
NATALIE DOUGLAS
BARBARA FASANO
MALE VOCALIST
BRANDON CUTRELL
ANTHONY SANTELMO JR
STEVE RAY WATKINS
NEW YORK DEBUT - FEMALE
MAUDE MAGGART
SARAH MUCHO
TRACY STARK
NEW YORK DEBUT - MALE
RITT HENN
THOMAS HONECK
STEVEN GARRETT WRIGHT
MAJOR ENGAGEMENT
BARBARA BRUSSELL
KAREN MASON
MARK NADLER
STAND-UP COMEDY/MONOLOGY
ROCK ALBERS
POPPI KRAMER
NANCY WITTER
IMPERSONATION
STEVEN BRINBERG (BARBRA STREISAND)
TOMMY FEMIA (JUDY GARLAND)
CHUCK SWEENEY (PEGGY LEE)
MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER
FRED BARTON
DOTTIE BURMAN
RAY JESSELL
SHAWN RYAN
VOCAL OR MUSICAL COMEDY DUO/GROUP
MARCUS SIMEONE & EVA LADAS
THE NEXT BIG BROADWAY MUSICAL
3 TENORS IN SEARCH OF AN ACT
REVUE
THE JOHNNY MERCER BIRTHDAY SHOW
SINGING ASTAIRE
TIMELESS DIVAS!
VARIETY PRODUCTION/RECURRING SERIES OR SPECIAL
PRODUCTION
GASHOLE: THE TALK SHOW, GASHOLE: THE TONYSHOW
NEW MONDAYS
POOLE PARTY
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT ENTERTAINER
LESLIE ANDERSON
JENIFER KRUSKAMP
GEORGE SANDERS
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT INSTRUMENTALIST
GERRY DIEFFENBACH
RICKY RITZEL
JERRY SCOTT
TRACY STARK
DIRECTOR
PHIL GEOFFREY BOND
HOPE HARDCASTLE
RON POOLE
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
CHRISTOPHER DENNY
RICK JENSEN
ALEX RYBECK
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
MICHAEL BARBIERI
THOMAS HONECK
SHAWN MONINGER
RECORDING OF THE YEAR
John Bucchino, ON RICHARD RODGERS' PIANO
Ann Hampton Callaway, SLOW
Ricky Ritzel & Leslie Anderson, COOL, COOL, COOL - SONGS OF JOHNNY
MERCER
SONG OF THE YEAR
Nancy Baxter & Paul Stephan, "ELUSIVE"
Bonnie Lee Sanders, Joel Diamond, and Mila, "FRIENDS (LAISSE MOI T'AIMER)"
Marie Gentile and Caren Cole, "I'D RATHER NEVER KNOW"
Ann Hampton Callaway, "MY ANSWERED PRAYER"
Michael Ogburn, "OU APRES LA GUERRE"
SPECIAL MUSICAL MATERIAL OF THE YEAR
Ann Hampton Callaway, "HERE COME THE CALLAWAYS"
Fred Barton, "I CAN BE AN ICON TOO"
Mary Liz McNamara, "I LOVE YOU SWEETHEART"
Peter Lurye and Peter Yawitz, "NOT GOOD ENOUGH"
Ray Jessel, "THE SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS BLUES"
2005
MAC AWARD WINNERS
2005
MAC AWARD SHOW REPORT
