Broadway star and concert artist, Karen Mason, will present a special online video broadcast of her show Mason at Mama’s in March, recorded in Don’t Tell Mama in 2015. The show will be available to stream on a strictly limited basis for three performance times only: Thursday, October 15 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, October 17 at 2:00 PM; and Sunday, October 18 at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $15 each and can be accessed at KarenMason.com
Mason at Mama’s in March, directed by Barry Kleinbort with Christopher Denny serving as Music Supervisor, is a concert evening celebrating Mason’s return to the club she helped open almost 40 years before. When the show debuted in 2015, Stephen Holden in The New York Times hailed it was a “dramatic tour de force, a steady balance between interpretive insight and vocal showmanship.” In the powerful and heartfelt evening, Mason performs longtime fan favorites, selections from early in her nightclub career, songs from her Broadway career and highlights from her most recent album It’s About Time from Zevely Records.
A special part of the show is the album’s title song “It’s About Time,” an original composition written by Mason’s longtime album producer Paul Rolnick and Shelly Markham. Called “a subtle but profoundly moving call for marriage equality” by The Chicago Tribune, it was created for a wedding of Mason’s friends after Marriage Equality passed in New York State.
Mason is a thirteen-time MAC Award winner; most recently she was the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, and has won the MAC Award for Major Female Vocalist of the Year for six consecutive years. She has also won the 2006 Nightlife Award for Major Female Vocalist and has three Bistro Awards. She was recently seen as “Madame Giry” in the North American Premiere of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, and is currently slated to return to Broadway in the Judy Garland musical Chasing Rainbows. She has starred on Broadway, Off-Broadway, television and in the recording studio, winning awards for her many lauded performances in these genres. As an international concert artists, she’s headlined at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Feinstein’s at the Regency Rainbow & Stars, among many others, sharing concert stages with Michael Feinstein, Jerry Herman, Chita Rivera, Luciano Pavarotti, Rosemary Clooney, Liza Minnelli and John Kander and Fred Ebb, among others.
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