The Annual 35th Cabaret Convention of the Mabel Mercer Foundation will be held on Tuesday, October 22 through Thursday, October 24 at Rose Hall in Jazz at Lincoln Center. More than 80 performers will celebrate the American popular songbook, classic and modern. Each 6 PM performance offers an individual theme, cast and repertoire, all in Mabel Mercer’s honor.
Tuesday brings “Put On a Happy Face” – A Celebration of Charles Strouse and includes that composer’s melodies from such works as Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Golden Boy. The annual Julie Wilson Award,will be presented during this show, as well. On the second night, “I’m In Love Again” with Bobby Short – A Centennial Celebration, featuring music selected from the Short songbook of material by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman & Carolyn Leigh, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim, among others. Two additional yearly Foundation honors will be presented: The Donald F. Smith Award,and The Mabel Mercer Award. The third and final evening of the Convention takes both its title and topic from Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager’s 1974 hit, “Everything Old Is New Again.” The evening covers over a century of classic and present-day standards – everything from “The Kerry Dance” to “Anticipation,” “The Girl from Ipanema,” “The Ladies Who Lunch” — and “Lady of Spain”!
Tickets, on sale now, for all three 2024 evenings are priced at $100 (prime orchestra), $50 (orchestra and mezzanine) and $25 (balcony). They are available in person: Jazz At Lincoln Center box office, online at www.jazz.org or by phone at 212 721-6500 CenterCharge. For more information, click here.
$10 “rush tickets” will be available for students and Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) members with ID on the day of each concert only – at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office.
For “Premium Patron Seating” – at $500 per ticket – limited to fifty seats at each concert ($350 which is tax deductible) includes an invitation to a post-show cocktail reception with the evening’s artists. “Premium Patron Seating” is available ONLY through The Mabel Mercer Foundation at 212 980-3026.
