2008 MAC AWARDS WINNERS
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
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
BRIDGET EVERETT & KENNY MELLMAN
FEMALE VOCALIST
MALE VOCALIST
JEANNE MACDONALD, Come Back to Me: Jeanne MacDonald Celebrates Miss Peggy Lee Bradstan Country Inn, Metropolitan Room
MILES PHILLIPS, Quiet Stars, The Unrest Inside Me Metropolitan Room, Cosmopolitan Club
FEMALE JAZZ VOCALIST
MALE JAZZ VOCALIST
LAURIE KRAUZ, Enzo’s Jazz Room, Iridium, Sweet Rhythm
JACK DONOHUE, Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, Cornelia Street Café
MAJOR ARTIST
MAJOR JAZZ ARTIST
BARBARA BRUSSELL, Out of the Mouths of Babes-Women Who Dared Metropolitan Room
NATALIE DOUGLAS, Birdland, The Duplex, Matthew's Mug (Vassar College)
FEMALE CELEBRITY ARTIST
MALE/DUO CELEBRITY ARTIST
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, Metropolitan Room, Birdland
STEVE ROSS, Oak Room at the Algonquin, 59East59
NEW YORK DEBUT – FEMALE
NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE
SUZANNE CARRICO, The Art of the Cahn: Music from the Sammy Cahn Songbook The Triad, Metropolitan Room
JONATHAN WHITTON, Perfect Finite The Triad, The Duplex, Laurie Beechman
STAND-UP COMIC
POPPI KRAMER
MAJOR STAND-UP COMIC – FEMALE
MAJOR STAND-UP COMIC – MALE
SUSIE ESSMAN
JIM DAVID
MUSICAL COMEDY / IMPERSONATION
DUO OR GROUP
RAY JESSEL, Songs from the Ridiculous to the Romantic Don't Tell Mama
KAREN MACK & MICHAEL HOLLAND, Gashole: Hole-O-Matic Metropolitan Room, The Duplex
JAZZ DUO OR GROUP
COMEDY/IMPROV DUO/GROUP
THE DARYL KOJAK TRIO, The Triad, Laurie Beechman, Sweet Rhythm, Metropolitan Room
CHICAGO CITY LIMITS
REVUE / SPECIAL PRODUCTION
VARIETY PRODUCTION/RECURRING SERIES
MY FRIEND, THE CAT, created by Phil Geoffrey Bond Laurie Beechman
JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY, hosted by Jim Caruso Birdland
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – MALE
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – FEMALE
DAVID COLBERT Helen's
SARAH MUCHO Rose's Turn, Don't Tell Mama
PIANO BAR/RESTURANT INSTRUMENTALIST
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
TRACY STARK Don't Tell Mama
STEVEN RAY WATKINS Lennie Watts, Jim Speake (The Metropolitan Room)
DIRECTOR
TECHNICAL 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)
JEAN-PIERRE PERREAUX Lina Koutrakos, Johnny Mercer A-Z ,Tom Wopat, Jimmy James, Karen Mason (Metropolitan Room)
SONG
SPECIAL MUSICAL MATERIAL
I REMEMBERWords by Shaynee Rainbolt & Russell Garcia, Music by Russell Garcia
ONE STOP SHOPPINGWords by Dan Page, Michele Page, Sue Matsuki and Gregory Toroian, Music by Sue Matsuki & Gregory Toroian
RECORDING
JAZZ RECORDING
TERESE GENECCODrunk With Love–Live (A Tribute to Frances Faye)
JOHN DeMARCOPure 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
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
BRIDGET EVERETT & KENNY MELLMAN
FEMALE VOCALIST
MALE VOCALIST
JEANNE MACDONALD, Come Back to Me: Jeanne MacDonald Celebrates Miss Peggy Lee Bradstan Country Inn, Metropolitan Room
MILES PHILLIPS, Quiet Stars, The Unrest Inside Me Metropolitan Room, Cosmopolitan Club
FEMALE JAZZ VOCALIST
MALE JAZZ VOCALIST
LAURIE KRAUZ, Enzo’s Jazz Room, Iridium, Sweet Rhythm
JACK DONOHUE, Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, Cornelia Street Café
MAJOR ARTIST
MAJOR JAZZ ARTIST
BARBARA BRUSSELL, Out of the Mouths of Babes-Women Who Dared Metropolitan Room
NATALIE DOUGLAS, Birdland, The Duplex, Matthew's Mug (Vassar College)
FEMALE CELEBRITY ARTIST
MALE/DUO CELEBRITY ARTIST
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, Metropolitan Room, Birdland
STEVE ROSS, Oak Room at the Algonquin, 59East59
NEW YORK DEBUT – FEMALE
NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE
SUZANNE CARRICO, The Art of the Cahn: Music from the Sammy Cahn Songbook The Triad, Metropolitan Room
JONATHAN WHITTON, Perfect Finite The Triad, The Duplex, Laurie Beechman
STAND-UP COMIC
POPPI KRAMER
MAJOR STAND-UP COMIC – FEMALE
MAJOR STAND-UP COMIC – MALE
SUSIE ESSMAN
JIM DAVID
MUSICAL COMEDY / IMPERSONATION
DUO OR GROUP
RAY JESSEL, Songs from the Ridiculous to the Romantic Don't Tell Mama
KAREN MACK & MICHAEL HOLLAND, Gashole: Hole-O-Matic Metropolitan Room, The Duplex
JAZZ DUO OR GROUP
COMEDY/IMPROV DUO/GROUP
THE DARYL KOJAK TRIO, The Triad, Laurie Beechman, Sweet Rhythm, Metropolitan Room
CHICAGO CITY LIMITS
REVUE / SPECIAL PRODUCTION
VARIETY PRODUCTION/RECURRING SERIES
MY FRIEND, THE CAT, created by Phil Geoffrey Bond Laurie Beechman
JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY, hosted by Jim Caruso Birdland
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – MALE
PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – FEMALE
DAVID COLBERT Helen's
SARAH MUCHO Rose's Turn, Don't Tell Mama
PIANO BAR/RESTURANT INSTRUMENTALIST
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
TRACY STARK Don't Tell Mama
STEVEN RAY WATKINS Lennie Watts, Jim Speake (The Metropolitan Room)
DIRECTOR
TECHNICAL 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)
JEAN-PIERRE PERREAUX Lina Koutrakos, Johnny Mercer A-Z ,Tom Wopat, Jimmy James, Karen Mason (Metropolitan Room)
SONG
SPECIAL MUSICAL MATERIAL
I REMEMBERWords by Shaynee Rainbolt & Russell Garcia, Music by Russell Garcia
ONE STOP SHOPPINGWords by Dan Page, Michele Page, Sue Matsuki and Gregory Toroian, Music by Sue Matsuki & Gregory Toroian
RECORDING
JAZZ RECORDING
TERESE GENECCODrunk With Love–Live (A Tribute to Frances Faye)
JOHN DeMARCOPure and Simple
