The
22nd ANNUAL MAC AWARDS were presented at a gala show on Tuesday, May
6th at BB KING'S BLUES CLUB (237 West 42nd Street, NYC - 212-997-4144
- http://www.bbkingsblues.com/
) .
2008
MAC CABARET AWARD WINNERS
MAC/HANSON AWARD
MAUREEN KELLY STEWART
FEMALE VOCALIST
JEANNE MACDONALD, Come Back to Me: Jeanne MacDonald
Celebrates Miss Peggy Lee Bradstan Country Inn, Metropolitan
Room
MALE VOCALIST
MILES PHILLIPS, Quiet Stars, The Unrest Inside Me
Metropolitan Room, Cosmopolitan Club
FEMALE JAZZ VOCALIST
LAURIE KRAUZ, Enzo's Jazz Room, Iridium,
Sweet Rhythm
MALE JAZZ VOCALIST
JACK DONOHUE, Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, Cornelia
Street Cafe
MAJOR ARTIST
BARBARA BRUSSELL, Out of the Mouths of Babes - Women
Who Dared Metropolitan Room
MAJOR JAZZ ARTIST
NATALIE DOUGLAS, Birdland, The Duplex, Matthew's
Mug (Vassar College)
FEMALE CELEBRITY ARTIST
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, Metropolitan
Room, Birdland
MALE/DUO CELEBRITY ARTIST
STEVE ROSS, Oak Room at the Algonquin, 59East59
NEW YORK DEBUT - FEMALE
SUZANNE CARRICO, The Art of the Cahn: Music from
the Sammy Cahn Songbook The Triad, Metropolitan Room
NEW YORK DEBUT - MALE
JONATHAN WHITTON, Perfect Finite The Triad,
The Duplex, Laurie Beechman
STAND - UP COMIC
POPPI KRAMER
MAJOR STAND - UP COMIC - FEMALE
SUSIE ESSMAN
MAJOR STAND - UP COMIC - MALE
JIM DAVID
MUSICAL COMEDY / IMPERSONATION
RAY JESSEL, Songs from the Ridiculous to the Romantic
Don't Tell Mama
DUO OR GROUP
KAREN MACK & MICHAEL HOLLAND, Gashole: Hole - O -
Matic Metropolitan Room, The Duplex
JAZZ DUO OR GROUP
THE DARYL KOJAK TRIO, The Triad, Laurie
Beechman, Sweet Rhythm, Metropolitan Room
COMEDY/IMPROV DUO/GROUP
CHICAGO CITY LIMITS
REVUE / SPECIAL PRODUCTION
MY FRIEND, THE CAT, created by Phil Geoffrey Bond
Laurie Beechman
VARIETY PRODUCTION/RECURRING
SERIES
JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY, hosted by Jim Caruso
Birdland
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING
ENTERTAINER - MALE
DAVID COLBERT Helen's
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER - FEMALE
SARAH MUCHO Rose's Turn, Don't Tell
Mama
PIANO BAR/RESTURANT INSTRUMENTALIST
TRACY
STARK Don't Tell Mama
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
STEVEN
RAY WATKINS Lennie Watts, Jim Speake (The Metropolitan Room)
DIRECTOR
ERIC MICHAEL GILLETT KT Sullivan, Karen
Akers, Lari White (Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel), Anna Bergman
, Raissa Katona Bennett (Metropolitan Room), Maureen Kelley Stewart
(Laurie Beechman), Olivia Stevens - Pleasure and Peril:The Songs of
Zarah Leander (Helen's)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
JEAN - PIERRE PERREAUX
Lina Koutrakos, Johnny Mercer A - Z ,Tom Wopat, Jimmy James, Karen
Mason (Metropolitan Room)
SONG
I REMEMBER Words by Shaynee Rainbolt & Russell
Garcia, Music by Russell Garcia
SPECIAL MUSICAL MATERIAL
ONE STOP SHOPPING Words by Dan Page, Michele Page,
Sue Matsuki and Gregory Toroian, Music by Sue Matsuki & Gregory Toroian
RECORDING
TERESE GENECCO Drunk With Love - Live (A Tribute
to Frances Faye)
JAZZ RECORDING
JOHN DEMARCO Pure and Simple
2008 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARDS
LINDA
AMIEL BURNS
BART GREENBERG'S ANY WEDNESDAY SERIES
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN
COMEDY
LEWIS BLACK
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JAZZ
GLORIA LYNNE
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
MAUREEN MCGOVERN
TONY SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
BRIDGET EVERETT & KENNY MELLMAN
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.
2008 MAC AWARD
NOMINEES
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