MAC’s mission is to advance the art and business of live entertainment. A trade association, its activities are designed to heighten public awareness of the field’s contributions and vitality, to honor its creativity, to build its current and future audiences, and to speak out as an influential voice on behalf of MAC members and the industry at large.
Cabaret won Academy Awards for Minnelli and Grey, but lost the Best Picture award, and a similar judgment can be made about the soundtrack album. Their performances are outstanding, but the album as a whole is a bit skimpy. Subsequent stage productions tended to incorporate the new film songs. (The 1996 CD reissue re-sequences the songs.).
Members of MAC include cabaret, comedy and jazz artists, directors, musical directors, technical directors, musicians, club owners, booking managers, composers, lyricists, journalists, publicists, artists’ managers, agents, and friends and supporters of live entertainment. The organization was created in 1983.
When appropriate, MAC advocates for the best interest of the entertainment industry by being involved with city and state hearings on matters affecting MAC members and clubs.
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) was founded in 1983, primarily as an organization for cabaret owners, managers, and booking agents to meet and exchange ideas. The organization started accepting performers in 1985.
MAC is currently a trade organization, designation 501C6, with a dues-paying membership. It differs from an organization designated a 501C3 in that contributions to MAC are not tax deductible.
MAC’s first president was Curt Davis who, upon his death, was succeeded by Erv Raible, co-owner of several New York piano bars and cabarets. Past presidents include Jamie deRoy, Michael Estwanick, Barry Levitt, Judy Barnett, Scott Barbarino, Ricky Ritzel,and Lennie Watts. Its current president is Amy Wolk, appointed in 2020.
MAC’s mission is to advance the art and business of live entertainment. A trade association, its activities are designed to heighten public awareness of the field’s contributions and vitality, to honor its creativity, to build its current and future audiences, and to speak out as an influential voice on behalf of MAC members and the industry at large.
To help educate members to the business and behind-the-scenes aspects of live entertainment, MAC presents seminars and panel discussions on a variety of subjects. Recent topics have included: producing and marketing CDs, publicity, and using the internet as a marketing tool.
MAC serves as an advocate for its membership. At various times over its history, MAC has been an active participant in dialogues designed to change or overturn legislation adversely affecting New York’s community of performers and clubs. The MAC honorary board has included such greats as Joan Rivers, Kaye Ballard, Phyllis Diller, Jerry Herman, Liza Minnelli, Rex Reed, and Julie Wilson.
Since 1986, the MAC Awards have been presented by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs at an annual ceremony usually held in spring. Originally, MAC Awards were simply given by the Board of Directors to whoever they felt had made a contribution to live entertainment, whether a business person, local performer, dedicated critic, or cabaret luminary. Currently the annual Awards Show shines the spotlight on up and coming, locally established, and nationally recognized cabaret, comedy, and jazz performers, as well as behind- the-scenes professionals. Awards are voted by the MAC membership.
MAC in the newspapers over the years:
Linda and Peter Hanson
Martha Ann Talman
The Cabaret Foundation
Cynthia Crane
Tennie Leonard
Felix Truex
Wendy Sherl
Sponsor Level
Raissa Katona Bennett
John Alec Briggs
Claudine Cassan-Jellison
Sally Darling
Jamie DeRoy
Bob Diamond
Camille Diamond
Jim Dolan
Sandi Durell
Sherry Eaker
Lawrence Elow
Heather Frank
Melanie Greenberg
Marge Helenchild
Bobbie Horowitz
Ann Kittredge
Angela Leone
Susan Mack
John Minnock
Stephen Morfesis
Sidney Myer
Robert O’Hare
Colton Pometta
Jessica Rucker
Jamie Salzano
Roger Schmelzer
Jim Speake
William Terry
March 4-7 and 11-14, 2004. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Mainstage Theatre. Book by Joe Masteroff. Based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Directed by Phillip M. Church and Elsie Augenblick. Choreography by Ana L. Blanco. Scenic Design by Craig A. Young. Costume Design by Heather Rae Miller.
Spring 3-4-2004
MMC Campus
Department of Theatre
Theatre and Performance Studies
Department of Theatre, Florida International University, 'Cabaret' (2004). Department of Theatre Production Programs. 45.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/theatre_programs/45
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