FEMALE VOCALIST CELIA BERK Manhattan Serenade Metropolitan Room

SALLY DARLING Totally Noël Don’t Tell Mama

MEG FLATHER Portraits; Carly and Me Don’t Tell Mama

JOSEPHINE SANGES Haven't We Met?; To Ann, with Love Metropolitan Room, Don't Tell Mama

LISA VIGGIANO Night in the City Don't Tell Mama, Laurie Beechman

MALE VOCALIST BOB DIAMOND The Gift of Love Don’t Tell Mama

RICHARD HOLBROOK Richard Sings Rodgers with a Lot of Heart; Always December: A Holiday Musical Celebration Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama

JEFF MACAULEY Mwah! The Dinah Shore Show; It Was Me; Le Grand Tour Metropolitan Room

STEARNS MATTHEWS Me and the Gersh-twins Laurie Beechman, Metropolitan Room

JIM SPEAKE Sweet Life, the Show Don’t Tell Mama, Laurie Beechman

1 MAJOR ARTIST NATALIE DOUGLAS Human Heart; Stevie Songs; Freedom Songs 2016; A Very Natalie New Year; others Birdland; Duplex, others

SIDNEY MYER Live at the Beechman Laurie Beechman

STACY SULLIVAN A Night at the Troubadour Metropolitan Room

CELEBRITY CHRISTINE ANDREAS Feinstein's/54 Below

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Feinstein's/54 Below

DONNA MCKECHNIE Feinstein's/54 Below

MARK NADLER Does This Room Make My Act Look Big? Pangea

CAROL WOODS Ain't We Got Fun: The Music of Richard Whiting Metropolitan Room

NEW YORK DEBUT – FEMALE AMORIKA AMOROSO The Whore Next Door Don’t Tell Mama

HANNA BURKE Why Is Everyone Laughing? A Tribute to Madeline Kahn Don't Tell Mama, Metropolitan Room, Duplex

MARY SUE DANIELS Straight Outta ‘Conda Don’t Tell Mama

SALLIE JO HADLEY Bustin’ Loose: The Liberation of Sallie Jo Hadley Don’t Tell Mama

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NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE

MATT DIPASQUALE Neither Here nor There Duplex

TOMMY J. DOSE by.the.book Don’t Tell Mama

CHARLIE ROMO (a.k.a. CHARLIE POVOROMO) Metropolitan Room

SPOKEN WORD ARTIST KAREN FINLEY Unicorn Gratitude Mystery Laurie Beechman

SHAWN MONINGER Because I Can 2: Second Addiction Metropolitan Room

IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/DRAG ARTIST MARGOH! CHANNING MargOH! Channing Is Uncorked; MargOH! Channing Is Hung Pangea  LADY BUNNY Trans Jester Stonewall Inn

RICK SKYE Liza Live! Don’t Tell Mama

MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER LYNDA RODOLITZ Lynda Rodolitz Is Off Her Rocker Don’t Tell Mama

BILLIE ROE Monopoly Metropolitan Room

3 AARON WEINSTEIN Violinspiration Pangea

DUO/GROUP ANITA GILLETTE & PENNY FULLER Sin Twisters Too Feinstein's/54 Below, Metropolitan Room

SALLY MAYES & JEFF HARNAR Double Take Laurie Beechman

THOSE GIRLS (Eve Eaton, Rachel Hanser, Karen Mack, Wendy A. Russell) Those Girls at the Beechman Laurie Beechman

REVUE ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE: AN EVENING OF ALAN JAY LERNER Performed by KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler, directed by Mark Nadler Laurie Beechman

BROADWAY BOOZY BRUNCH Created by Manuel Araujo and Patrick DeGennaro, produced by Don't Tell Mama Don't Tell Mama

RODGERS, HART, AND HAMMERSTEIN Created and written by Marcus Simeone Don’t Tell Mama, Metropolitan Room

RECURRING SERIES IT'S JUST A NUMBER Created, produced, and directed by Bobbie Horowitz Metropolitan Room

RICKY RITZEL’S BROADWAY Created and produced by Ricky Ritzel; staged and choreographed by Jay Rogers and Aaron Morishita Don’t Tell Mama

SALON Mark Janas, founder, artistic director, host; Tanya Moberly, executive producer Etcetera Etcetera

4 EMCEE BERNIE FURSHPAN This Is Your Night Metropolitan Room

TOM GAMBLIN MetroStar Talent Challenge Metropolitan Room

BOBBIE HOROWITZ It's Just a Number Metropolitan Room

NANCY WITTER Nancy Witter's Comedy Variety Series Don't Tell Mama

SPECIAL PRODUCTION THE JOE ICONIS CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR Written and created by Joe Iconis, produced by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, directed by John Simpkins Feinstein's/54 Below

MAMA'S NEXT BIG ACT Produced by Don't Tell Mama and Lennie Watts Don't Tell Mama

METROSTAR TALENT CHALLENGE Produced by Joseph Macchia, Tom Gamblin, Beck Lee, Bernie Furshpan Metropolitan Room

MUSICAL DIRECTOR RICK JENSEN Doris Dear’s Christmas Special (Feinstein's/54 Below), Mary Sue Daniels (Don’t Tell Mama), Bob Diamond (Don’t Tell Mama), Susan Winter (Metropolitan Room)

DARYL KOJAK Laurie Krauz and Daryl Kojak Celebrate 25 Years (Metropolitan Room), Amy Beth Williams (Don’t Tell Mama), 2016 Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club), Leslie Orofino (Metropolitan Room), Rob Davis (Metropolitan Room)

TRACY STARK Sidney Myer (Laurie Beechman), Kim David Smith (Pangea), Sarah Dash (Iridium, Rrazz Room-Philadelphia), Eric Millegan (Don't Tell Mama), MargOH! Channing (Pangea)

5 STEVEN RAY WATKINS Amorika Amoroso (Don’t Tell Mama), Billie Roe (Metropolitan Room), Those Girls (Laurie Beechman), Lynda Rodolitz (Don’t Tell Mama), Tanya Moberly (Tanya Moberly Sings Loggins, Don't Tell Mama)

DIRECTOR BARRY KLEINBORT Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller (Feinstein's/54 Below, Metropolitan Room), Paula Dione Ingram (Metropolitan Room), Adrienne Haan (Adrienne Haan Sings Kurt Weill, Metropolitan Room), Claudine Cassan-Jellison (Don't Tell Mama), Madelaine Warren (Don't Tell Mama)

LINA KOUTRAKOS Doris Dear (Feinstein's/54 Below), Mary Sue Daniels (Don't Tell Mama), Dawn Derow (Winter Songs, Laurie Beechman), Rick Jensen's Birthday Bash (Don't Tell Mama), Patti Bottino Bravo (Metropolitan Room, Don't Tell Mama)

MARK NADLER Stacy Sullivan (Metropolitan Room), Billie Roe (Metropolitan Room), Mark Nadler & KT Sullivan (Almost Like Being in Love, Laurie Beechman)

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR COLLETTE BLACK Bob Diamond, The Gift of Love, Don't Tell Mama Rick Skye, Liza Live!, Don't Tell Mama Susan Neuffer, Apocalypse Wow, Don't Tell Mama Tommy Femia & Rick Skye, Judy & Liza Together Again, Don't Tell Mama

ARMANDO BRAVI Alvin Ing, Got a Lot of Livin' to Do, Duplex John McDaniel & Lennie Watts, Celebrate Me Home, Don’t Tell Mama Natalie Joy Johnson & Brian Nash, Natalie Joy Johnson at The Duplex, Duplex Tim Di Pasqua, Beach in the Blinding Sun Concert, Don’t Tell Mama Tanya Moberly, Tanya Moberly Sings Kenny Loggins with Steven Ray Watkins, Don’t Tell Mama

ADAM DECARLO Tommy J. Dose, by.the.book., Don't Tell Mama Midnight at the Never Get (musical, with Sam Bolen & Mark Sonnenblick), Don't Tell Mama Amorika Amoroso, The Whore Next Door, Don't Tell Mama Lynda Rodolitz, Lynda Rodolitz Is Off Her Rocker, Don't Tell Mama

6 JASON ELLIS Groovin' on a Sunday (Woody Regan and Ann McCormack), Don’t Tell Mama Amy Beth Williams, Carried Away, Don’t Tell Mama Ricky Ritzel’s Broadway Halloween, Don’t Tell Mama Tanya Moberly, Tanya Moberly Sings Amy Ani Ricky Joni with Ritt Henn, Don’t Tell Mama Billy Lykken, Sacred Monster, Don’t Tell Mama

ABBY JUDD Sidney Myer, Live at the Beechman, Laurie Beechman KT Sullivan & Mark Nadler, Almost Like Being in Love, Laurie Beechman Eric Michael Gillett, The Songwriter Projects, Laurie Beechman Those Girls (Eve Eaton, Rachel Hanser, Karen Mack, Wendy Russell), Laurie Beechman

ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTALIST DONNA KELLY, drums/percussion Lennie Watts, Manilow '73-'83, Laurie Beechman Those Girls, Those Girls at the Beechman, Laurie Beechman Amorika Amoroso, The Whore Next Door, Don't Tell Mama Lynda Rodolitz, Lynda Rodolitz Is Off Her Rocker, Don't Tell Mama

TOM HUBBARD, bass Marilyn Maye, Dizzy's at Jazz at Lincoln Center Carole J. Bufford, ROAR! Music of the 1920's and Beyond, Feinstein's/54 Below Paulo Szot, Feinstein's/54 Below

MATT SCHARFGLASS, bass Jim Speake, Sweet Life, Laurie Beechman Lennie Watts, Manilow '73-'83, Laurie Beechman Lisa Viggiano, Night in the City, Don't Tell Mama Those Girls, Those Girls at the Beechman, Laurie Beechman

KENJI TAJIMA, drums/percussion Tim Di Pasqua, Beach in the Blinding Sun Concert Series, Don't Tell Mama Tim Di Pasqua, The Music and Lyrics Project: Chapter Six, Don't Tell Mama Lisa Viggiano, Night in the City, Laurie Beechman, Don't Tell Mama

PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – MALE PAUL PILCZ, Don't Tell Mama

TOMMY J. DOSE, Don't Tell Mama

ADAM CHANDLER, Duplex

JOE ARDIZZONE, Brandy's

BOBBY BELFRY, Brandy's

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PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER – FEMALE TARA MARTINEZ, Don't Tell Mama

MICHELLE DOWDY, Don't Tell Mama

LAUREN MUFSON, Brandy's

HEIDI WEYHMUELLER, Brandy's

LAURA PAVLES, Don't Tell Mama

PIANO BAR INSTRUMENTALIST MICHAEL ISAACS, Duplex, Brandy's, Don't Tell Mama

WILLIAM TN HALL, Don't Tell Mama, Duplex

BRIAN NASH, Duplex

DARIUS FROWNER, Duplex

RICK JENSEN, Brandy's

RESTAURANT/LOUNGE ENTERTAINER BILL ZEFFIRO, La Rivista

CLARE COOPER, Don't Tell Mama Happy Hour

PATRICK DEGENNARO, Duplex Happy Hour

RECORDING (LAMOTT FRIEDMAN AWARD) CELIA BERK: "Manhattan Serenade"

SCOTT EVAN DAVIS: "Next"

GINGER MINJ: "Sweet T"

MAJOR RECORDING MARY FOSTER CONKLIN: "Photographs"

NATALIE DOUGLAS: "Human Heart"

TRACY STARK: "Shades of Beautiful – The Tracy Stark Songbook"

SONG BEFORE I FORGET

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FILLING SPACE

MORE THAN FINE

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS

WAITING

COMEDY/NOVELTY SONG THE CHRISTMAS TREE BLUES

THE MOM SONG

SELFIE

SITTING AT THE PIANO

SO MANY REASONS

SHOW OF THE YEAR MARILYN IN FRAGMENTS Laurie Beechman, Metropolitan Room Starring Marissa Mulder; Directed by Sondra Lee; Musical Direction by Jon Weber

MOLLY POPE IN A STAR IS BORN Feinstein's/54 Below Starring Molly Pope; musical direction by Brian Nash; choreographed by Ben Cameron; conceived by Will Nunziata, staged by Molly Pope

MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET Don't Tell Mama, 42West Conceived & Performed by Sam Bolen and Mark Sonnenblick; book, music, and lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick; directed by Max Friedman; production at 42West produced by Michael Chase Gosselin

THE JOE ICONIS CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR Feinstein's/54 Below Written by Joe Iconis; directed by John Simpkins; produced by Jennifer Ashley Tepper; choreographed by Christine O'Grady and Jennifer Werner

SPAMILTON The Triad Created, written, and directed by Gerard Alessandrini; musical arrangements by and Richard Danley; choreography by Gerry McIntyre; produced by Lush Budget Productions, John Freedson, , and , and Gerard Alessandrini

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