The complete roster of Bistro Award winners has been revealed, following the previous announcement of composer David Shire and lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. as recipients of the Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award. The team has collaborated for five decades and produced such Broadway works as Baby (seven Tony nominations including Best Musical and Best Score), Big (Tony nomination for Best Score), and two Off-Broadway revues, Starting Here, Starting Now (Grammy nomination for Best Cast Album) and Closer Than Ever (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical). These last two shows got their start in smaller nightclub venues, the cabaret at Manhattan Theatre Club and Eighty Eight’s, respectively, as did Mr. Maltby’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, which he conceived and directed.
Others to receive Bistro Awards are:
Charles Busch / Creative Artistry
Michele Brourman / Singer-Songwriter-Musical Director
Lorna Dallas / Consummate Cabaret Artistry
Jack Bartholet / Ira Eaker Special Achievement Award
Spencer Day / Singer-Songwriter-Recording Artist
Aisha de Haas / Jazz Vocalist
Joanne Halev / Debut / Like a Perfumed Woman
Sean Harkness, Lina Koutrakos, Marcus Simeone / Musical Group
Elizabeth Ward Land / Tribute Show /
Still Within the Sound of My Voice: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt
Sue Matsuki, Greg Toroian / Collaboration
Nancy McGraw / Interpretive Artistry
Gretchen Reinhagen / Recording –Take It With Me
Gabrielle Stravelli / Recording –Pick Up My Pieces
Stephanie Trudeau / Tribute Show / Chavela: Think of Me
Shellen Lubin, theatre director, playwright, songwriter, and vocal- and acting coach again directs. The “Bistro Band” consists of Daryl Kojak, pianist and musical director; Ritt Henn on bass; and Dwayne “Cook” Broadnax on drums. Sherry Eaker, the former longtime Editor-in Chief of Back Stage and the producer of the event since its inception, heads up the Awards Committee, which includes BistroAwards.com critics Gerry Geddes, Roy Sander, Robert Windeler, and Mark Dundas Wood. Sander is the award show’s associate producer; Wendy Lane Bailey is the assistant producer.
Tickets range from $80.00 to $350.00. Ticket-buyers in all categories are invited to the “After-Bistros” supper party as guests of the Bistros. For details about the various ticket categories and early-purchase prices, visit www.BistroAwards.com. For additional information, call 917-239-5467.
The gala event will be held on Monday, March 9 at 7:00 pm at Gotham Comedy Club. 208 W. 23rd Street.
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