
The 32nd MAC Awards were held on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, New York City.
And the winners are:
FEMALE VOCALIST

Dawn Derow
Dawn Derow: My Ship: Songs from 1941: Laurie BeechmanTheatre; Crown and Anchor (Provincetown)
MALE VOCALIST

Joshua Lance Dixon
Joshua Lance Dixon: Pack of One: Don’t Tell Mama
MAJOR ARTIST – FEMALE

Natalie Douglas
Natalie Douglas: Tribute shows (Sammy Davis, Jr., Linda Ronstadt, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey): Birdland
MAJOR ARTIST – MALE

Dawn Derow, Jeff Harnar

Alex Rybeck, Jeff Harner
Jeff Harnar: Easy to Love; Sammy Cahn: All the Way; The 1959 Broadway Songbook: Beach Café; Metropolitan Room; Laurie Beechman Theatre
NEW YORK DEBUT – FEMALE

Ann Kittredge
Ann Kittredge: It’s About Time; One Night Only: Metropolitan Room; Don’t Tell Mama; Feinstein’s/54 Below
NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE

David Baida
David Baida: Unexpected Surprise: Metropolitan Room
CELEBRITY ARTIST

Paul Rolnick accepting for Karen Mason
Karen Mason: Mason at Mama’s in May; Mason’s Makin’ Music; CD Release Show: Don’t Tell Mama; Davenport’s; The RRazz Room; Birdland
IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/DRAG ARTIST

Robin Kradles
Robin Kradles (Richard Becker): Gambling on Love; Don’t Tell Mama
MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER

Gretchen Reinhagen
Gretchen Reinhagen: #iBlamePaleo: Don’t Tell Mama
SPOKEN WORD ARTIST

Dan Ruth
DAN RUTH: A Life Behind Bars: Laurie Beechman Theatre
DUO/GROUP

Eve Eaton, Rachel Hanser, Karen Mack and Wendy A. Russell
THOSE GIRLS (Eve Eaton, Rachel Hanser, Karen Mack, Wendy A. Russell): Those Girls; Those Girls Unplugged Laurie Beechman Theatre; Pangea
MAJOR DUO/GROUP

Rick Jensen,, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano
Eric Comstock AND Barbara Fasano: Various shows: Birdland; Jazz at Kitano; Kaplan Penthouse (Lincoln Center); Mezzrow; Gaslight Theatre (St. Louis); Café Sabarsky
RECURRING SERIES

Ricky Ritzel
Ricky Ritzel’S BROADWAY: Created and produced by Ricky Ritzel, staging and choreography by Jay Rogers and Aaron Morishita: Don’t Tell Mama
REVUE OR SPECIAL PRODUCTION
MAMA’S NEXT BIG ACT: Produced by Don’t Tell Mama and Lennie Watts: Don’t Tell Mama
EMCEE

Lennie Watts
Lennie Watts: Mama’s Next BIG Act!: Don’t Tell Mama
DIRECTOR

Dawn Derow, Jeff Harnar
Jeff Harnar: Dawn Derow/My Ship: Songs from 1941 (Laurie Beechman Theatre); Anna Bergman/You’re All the World to Me (Feinstein’s/54 Below); Tovah Feldshuh/Aging Is Optional (Feinstein’s/54 Below); Together: 2017 Cabaret Award-Nominated Vocalists (Don’t Tell Mama, Urban Stages); Margo Brown/Margo Sings Mercer (Metropolitan Room)
MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Tracy Stark, Gretchen Reinhagen
Tracy Stark: Meg Flather/Hold on Tight (Don’t Tell Mama); Gretchen Reinhagen/#iBlamePaleo (Don’t Tell Mama); Kim David Smith/Morpheum Kabarett (Pangea, Café Sabarsky, Crown & Anchor); Peggy Eason (Laurie Beechman Theatre); Karen Kohler/The Home I Love-From Birdland to Tel Aviv (Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Jean-Pierre Perreaux
Jean-Pierre Perreaux, Metropolitan Room: Annie Ross; Stacy Sullivan/A Night at the Troubador; Marissa Mulder/Be Here Now: The Songs of Ray Lamontagne; Marilyn Maye/Marilyn by Request; Gunhild Carling/The Gunhild Carling Experience (all at Metropolitan Room)
ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTALIST

Sean Harkness
Sean Harkness, guitar: Kathleen Turner (Ripley Grier New Studio, Philadelphia Theatre Company): Keith Richards/Sarah Dash (Joe’s Pub); KJ Denhert (55 Bar); Love Cures benefit concert (Symphony Space); Stacy Sullivan/A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (Sheen Center)
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – MALE

Tommy J. Dose, Elaine Brier
Tommy J. Dose (Don’t Tell Mama)
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – FEMALE
Elaine Brier (Don’t Tell Mama)
PIANO BAR INSTRUMENTALIST
GERRY DIEFFENBACH (Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex)
RECORDING (LaMott Friedman Award)

Josephine Sanges
Josephine Sanges: Finding Beauty: Celebrating Ann Hampton Callaway
MAJOR RECORDING
Karen Mason: It’s About Time
SONG

Ben Schaechter; Lyrics by Dan Kael
“I CAN TELL TIME”: Music by Ben Schaechter; Lyrics by Dan Kael
COMEDY/NOVELTY SONG

Billy Recce
“GO INTO FINANCE”: Music and lyrics by Billy Recce
SHOW OF THE YEAR
Natalie Douglas: Tributes Residency Created by and starring Natalie Douglas, musical direction by Mark Hartman and Brian Nash (Birdland)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sharon McNight
Sharon McNight
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Ruby Rims
Ruby Rims
BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD

James Gavin with Frank Dain
James Gavin
HANSON AWARD

Carol Shedlin
Carol Shedlin
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