Celebrating the release of their new album of duets, Thanks for the Memory, KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler also mark 25 years of music and friendship on Tuesday, May 14 at 7:00 PM. at the Green Room 42. Highlights include selections from Cole Porter (“Don’t Fence Me In”), Stephen Sondheim (“The Little Things You Do Together”), The Gershwins (“Love Is Here to Stay”), Jule Styne (“Everything’s Coming Up Roses”) and many more. Sullivan and Nadler have performed six shows at the famed Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel celebrating legendary songwriters, as well as creating nine other shows including their Off-Broadway Gershwin revue American Rhapsody.
Sullivan was named artistic director of The Mabel Mercer Foundation in 2012. She starred in the Broadway revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and headlined for almost two decades in The Oak Room of The Algonquin Hotel. One of the shows she created there, “Rhyme, Women, and Song,” was presented on PBS/WNET 13 and her award-winning Sondheim show with Jeff Harnar was filmed for PBS from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Besides regular appearances in such New York venues as The Laurie Beechman Theatre and Birdland, she stars annually at The Pheasantry in London and has been showcased at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Spoleto Festival, Chichester Festival, CLUB RaYé in Paris and The Adelaide Festival in Australia. She guest starred on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” recorded six albums on the DRG Label, was the star vocalist on two tours of China with The Manhattan Symphonie and was twice named one of “The Top 100 Irish Americans” by Irish America magazine.
Nadler is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist, tap-dancer and comedian. He is the recipient of the 2015 Broadway World Editor’s Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year. His off-Broadway one-man show, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, has been honored with the 2013 Nightlife Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Broadway World Awards. Nadler has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra and has been a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony, National Arts Centre Symphony in Ottawa and others. At Philadelphia’s Mann Center for the Performing Arts, he did a solo two-act evening with the New York Pops, as well as Three Singular Sensations with Marvin Hamlisch and Martin Short. He is the recipient eight awards from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, three Backstage Bistro Awards, two New York Nightlife Awards and two Bay Area Outer Critics’ Circle Awards. Broadway credits include Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and The Sheik Of Avenue ‘B.’ At Lincoln Center, Mark cowrote, directed and starred in Schnozzola, a tribute to Jimmy Durante for the “Reel to Real” series.
Thanks for the Memory plays on Tuesday, May 14 at 7:00 PM. The cover charge is $20-$50. There is no food and drink minimum. For tickets, please visit www.TheGreenRoom42.com.
The Green Room 42 is located at 570 Tenth Avenue at 42nd Street, on the 4th Floor of Yotel
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