After two pandemic postponements, The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s centennial love letter to Peggy Lee takes the stage at 7 PM on Friday, June 3, at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. I Like Men” – Celebrating 102 Years of Miss Peggy Lee, created and cast by songstress Stacy Sullivan, will feature a dozen male cabaret vocalists in renditions of some of Lee’s best-known, best-loved, and most-treasured compositions. The show was first developed for Lee’s one-hundredth birthday in May 2020 and then rescheduled for summer 2021
Sullivan will host and perform, along with Danny Bacher, Derek Davis, Steven Davis, Darius de Haas, Eric Yves Garcia, Nicolas King, Todd Murray, Sidney Myer, Mark Nadler, Johnny Rodgers, Chuck Sweeney, and Gary Williams. The repertoire will include songs such as “It’s a Good Day,” “Mañana,” “I Love Being Here With You,” “I Don’t Know Enough About You,” “There’ll Be Another Spring,” “Where Can I Go Without You,” “He’s a Tramp,” “Bella Notte” and “The Siamese Cat Song”—the last three from the score of Walt Disney’s classic cartoon feature, Lady and the Tramp.
Born May 26, 1920, Peggy Lee was a multifaceted artist, whose career spanned more than seven decades. She was a distinct,vocal stylist (big band, swing, pop, blues, and jazz); an Academy Award-nominated actress; and a composer and lyricist. Lee published her first song in 1941 (Johnny Mercer was one of her mentors), and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999. Her song, “I Like Men,” serves as the inspiration for the June 3rd evening, Among scores of honors, Lee was nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards and won as Best Female Vocalist in 1969 for her rendition of “Is That All There Is?” She died on January 21, 2002, in Los Angeles.
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For further information about “I Like Men” and The Mabel Mercer Foundation, please contact: 212 980-3026 or info@mabelmercer.org.
