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The Board of Directors began bestowing its MAC Awards in 1986 to those they deemed "had made a contribution to live entertainment, whether a business person, local performer, dedicated critic, or cabaret luminary." Currently, the Awards are voted on by the MAC membership and honor cabaret, comedy, and jazz performers, as well as behind- the ...
George Nelson Treysman was primarily a coffee-house chess hustler who made his living by betting on games, usually offering material odds to his amateur chess opponents. His main base was the Stuyvesant Chess Club, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [1] Denker called Treysman the best odds-giver at chess in the United ...
4 nominations: Cabaret; 3 nominations: Breaking the Code, Speed-the-Plow and A Streetcar Named Desire; 2 nominations: Burn This, Chess and A Walk in the Woods; The following productions received multiple awards. 7 wins: The Phantom of the Opera; 3 wins: Anything Goes, Into the Woods and M. Butterfly
“Cabaret,” a revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical which has transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre into the ‘Kit Kat Club,’ won seven of the 11 categories it was nominated in ...
Interior of 54 Below. 54 Below is a nonprofit cabaret and restaurant in the basement of Studio 54 in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.Run by Broadway producers Steve Baruch, Richard Frankel, Marc Routh and Tom Viertel, 54 Below has hosted shows by such performers as Patti LuPone, Ben Vereen, Sierra Boggess, Peggy King, Lea Salonga, Marilyn Maye, Luann de Lesseps and Barbara Cook.
In 1987, she performed at Jan Wallman's in New York City in what a reviewer for The New York Times described as "the kind of brilliant cabaret act that does not happen overnight." [8] Cary's cabaret performances led to her twice winning MAC Awards, presented by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs as "the New York cabaret scene's top ...
Nancy LaMott (December 30, 1951 – December 13, 1995) was an American singer from Midland, Michigan, [1] popular on the New York City cabaret circuit in the 1980s and breaking out into radio and the national and international scene in the 1990s.
His chess career and his family's unconventional lifestyle were the subjects of many articles and TV shows. [1] Sarwer's attacking playing style was often compared to that Bobby Fischer, and a tournament game drawn against him by another young chess player, Joshua Waitzkin, was the inspiration for the climax in the film Searching for Bobby Fischer.