2018 Submissions FEMALE VOCALIST RUTH CARLIN Kaleidoscope Eyes Don’t Tell Mama LUCILLE CARR-KAFFASHAN Unwritten: Celebrating Twenty-First Century Female Singer-Songwriters Don’t Tell Mama, RRazz Room SALLY DARLING Love Lust & Longing Don’t Tell Mama DAWN DEROW My Ship: Songs from 1941 Laurie Beechman, Crown and Anchor (Provincetown) JEN FELLMAN Frenchy Don’t Tell Mama, United Solo Theatre Festival RENEE KATZ Never Been Gone Don’t Tell Mama MARNIE KLAR Bedtime Stories Don’t Tell Mama CARMEN LAMAR You’re Gonna Hear From Me Laurie Beechman, Rita Morgenthau Theatre (Neighborhood Playhouse, School for the Theatre) CAROL LIPNIK Goddess of Imperfection Pangea MARCIA RONEY Letting Go Don’t Tell Mama WENDY SCHERL New SCHERL in Town Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama, Davenport’s CAROL SHEDLIN Serenade in Blue Don’t Tell Mama MAUREEN KELLEY STEWART The Wizard of Words: EY Yip Harburg; Anything Goes: The Music of Cole Porter Laurie Beechman, Spencertown Arts Academy, Mohonk Mountain House DEBORAH STONE Still Exactly Where I Belong; Siren Song Don’t Tell Mama LISA VIGGIANO Three’s a Charm Don’t Tell Mama - 1 - DEBRA VOGEL Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Don’t Tell Mama SHELLY WATSON Songs on a Sunday Laurie Beechman AMY BETH WILLIAMS Carried Away, A Thousand Beautiful Things Don’t Tell Mama ANDREA BELL WOLFF Prisoner of Love Don’t Tell Mama, Metropolitan Room, Urban Stages LISA YAEGER Jersey Girl Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama MALE VOCALIST JOSHUA LANCE DIXON Pack of One Don’t Tell Mama ERIC HOFFMAN A New Nightclub Act Don’t Tell Mama RICHARD HOLBROOK The Many Moods of Christmas Don’t Tell Mama JEFF MACAULEY Hollywood Party: Movie Songs 1928-1936 Pangea JOHN MINNOCK Every Day Blue Metropolitan Room TYM MOSS (A) Live: Fun! Fabulous!! Flamboyant!!! Don’t Tell Mama CHARLIE ROMO Metropolitan Room KIM DAVID SMITH Morphium Kabarett Pangea STEVEN ZUMBO Young at Heart Don’t Tell Mama - 2 - MAJOR ARTIST –FEMALE CAROLE J. BUFFORD Fearless Females of the 1960s Feinstein's/54 Below NATALIE DOUGLAS Tribute shows (Sammy Davis, Jr., Linda Ronstadt, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey) Birdland ADRIENNE HAAN Rock Le Cabarett; Till the End of Time; Berlin to Broadway–Transatlantic Metropolitan Room GAY MARSHALL Gay's Paree Pangea TANYA MOBERLY Six Different Shows, Six Different Musicians, Six Friday Nights Don’t Tell Mama MARTA SANDERS Follow Me Laurie Beechman TAMMY FAYE STARLITE It Was a Pleasure Then – 50th Anniversary Celebration of Chelsea Girl Pangea STACY SULLIVAN The Sultry Side of Cole; The Fever of Miss Peggy Lee Beach Café, Rosarito Beach Hotel (Mexico) MAJOR ARTIST –MALE ERIC COMSTOCK Saturdays @6PM (20 varying performances) Birdland SEAN HARKNESS "Duos" series, Japan Tour 2017 Birdland, various venues in Japan JEFF HARNAR Easy to Love; Sammy Cahn: All The Way; The 1959 Broadway Songbook Beach Café, Metropolitan Room, Laurie Beechman CRAIG POMRANZ Live, Laugh, Love; Craig Encore; The Happy Show Pangea BRANDON URANOWITZ Feinstein's/54 Below - 3 - NEW YORK DEBUT –FEMALE AUDREY APPLEBY Ladies Cheap Cocktails Pangea LANE BRADBURY Let Me Entertain You, Again Don’t Tell Mama CAITLIN FAHEY Party of One Don’t Tell Mama ANNA FISHBEYN Anna on Fire and Uncensored Metropolitan Room BECCA C. KIDWELL A Song & Its Girl Don’t Tell Mama ANN KITTREDGE It’s About Time; One Night Only Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama, Feinstein’s/54 Below MARY ELIZABETH MICARI Rev. Mary and Granny’s Blue-Mers Duplex, West End Lounge KATI NEIHEISEL Among the Stars Don’t Tell Mama NEW YORK DEBUT –MALE DAVID BAIDA Unexpected Surprise Metropolitan Room KENNY HARMON It’s About Time; Raise a Glass Duplex ROSS HEWITT Rainbows and Ribbons Don’t Tell Mama BLAKE MELVER Blake Sings Barbra Laurie Beechman BYRON ST. CYR 4600 Mithra: My New Orleans Don’t Tell Mama JEREMY SUSSMAN Jeremy Sussman Sings More of the American Songbook and Other Curiosities Don’t Tell Mama - 4 - CELEBRITY ARTIST CHARLES BUSCH Feinstein's/54 Below MELISSA ERRICO Melissa Errico Sings Sondheim Feinstein's/54 Below KAREN MASON Mason at Mama’s in May; Mason’s Makin’ Music; CD Release Show Don’t Tell Mama, Davenport’s, the Razz Room, Birdland BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL Feinstein's/54 Below JINKX MONSOON Jinkx Sings Everything Laurie Beechman LEA SALONGA Lea Salonga: Encore Feinstein’s/54 Below KT SULLIVAN Colored Lights; You're the Top Laurie Beechman, Birdland IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/DRAG ARTIST ALASKA On Golden Girls Laurie Beechman DOROTHY BISHOP The Dozen Divas Show Metropolitan Room JACKIE COX I Dream of Jackie (Parts 1 and 2) Laurie Beechman ROBIN KRADLES (Richard Becker) Gambling on Love Don’t Tell Mama TRIXIE MATTEL Ages3 and Up; Two Birds (album release); Now with Moving Parts Laurie Beechman GINGER MINJ Sweet T; Crossdresser for Christ: The Musical Laurie Beechman PAIGE TURNER Easter Egg-stravaganza; This Show Is Gay; Confessions of an Unnatural Blonde Laurie Beechman - 5 - MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER LENA MOY-BORGEN The Awards Show; The Holiday Show Don’t Tell Mama, 53 Above LESLIE CARRARA-RUDOLPH What Just Happened? Laurie Beechman IRA LEE COLLINGS Life Is a Song—So, Why Not Sing It! Don't Tell Mama GRETCHEN REINHAGEN #iBlamePaleo Don’t Tell Mama TOM ROCCO Restless Soul Syndrome Metropolitan Room, Carnegie Stage (Pittsburgh) AMY WOLK Hungry Like the Wolk Duplex SPOKEN WORD ARTIST CHRIS HARDER #BIGBRIGHTSTAR Laurie Beechman DAN RUTH A Life Behind Bars Laurie Beechman Theatre NANCY WITTER Growing Up McDougal Don't Tell Mama DUO/GROUP JOSHUA BENNETT AND KATIA MALARSKY All You Have to Do Is Be Metropolitan Room, Don't Tell Mama MARIA CORSARO AND LINDA KAHN What the Hell Is Cabaret?! Laurie Beechman LYNN KEARNEY AND SONJA STUART What You Don't Know About W omen Don't Tell Mama, Bridge Street Theatre (Catskill, NY) - 6 - DAVID MAIOCCO AND CHUCK SWEENEY Lee Squared – An evening with Liberace and Miss Peggy Lee Metropolitan Room, Rrazz Room, Cotuit Center for the Performing Arts THOSE GIRLS (Eve Eaton, Rachel Hanser, Karen Mack, Wendy A. Russell) Those Girls; Those Girls Unplugged Laurie Beechman, Pangea UNEXPECTED TRIO (Meg Flather, Rosemary Loar, and Tracy Stark) Don’t Tell Mama, 53 Above, Music at the Mansion MAJOR DUO/GROUP KELLI BARRETT AND JARROD SPECTOR Look at It My Way Feinstein's/54 Below BARBARA BLEIER AND AUSTIN PENDLETON 'Tis the Season to Be Morbid; Beautiful Mistake—The Songs of John Bucchino and Amanda McBroom; We Don't Remember Christmas… Pangea ERIC COMSTOCK AND BARBARA FASANO Various shows Birdland, Jazz at Kitano, Kaplan Penthouse (Lincoln Center), Mezzrow, Gaslight Theatre (St. Louis), Café Seabarsky CAROLE DEMAS AND SARAH RICE Thank You For Your Love Laurie Beechman MARCUS SIMEONE AND SEAN HARKNESS Blue Don’t Tell Mama RECURRING SERIES AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY SERIES Produced by Linda Amiel Burns Musicians Hall at Local 802 BAZAZZ! A SEQUINED VARIETY Produced, directed, written by and starring Rick Skye Don't Tell Mama BROADWAY SESSIONS Produced and hosted by Ben Cameron Laurie Beechman GROOVIN’ ON A SUNDAY Produced and hosted by Ann McCormack, co-hosted and musical direction by Woody Regan Don’t Tell Mama, 53 Above I ONLY HAVE LIES FOR YOU Created and produced by Amy Wolk and Niki M. James Laurie Beechman - 7 - IT’S JUST A NUMBER Created, produced, and directed by Bobbie Horowitz Metropolitan Room, The Triad LE SCANDAL Produced by Bonnie Dunn Laurie Beechman MADAME MATHIEU’S SOIREE Co-produced, written, and hosted by Drew Fornarola, co-produced and directed by Tyler Spicer The Duplex OPEN MIC AT THE MET Produced and hosted by Deb Berman and Susan Winter Metropolitan Room RICHARD SKIPPER CELEBRATES Produced by Russell Woolley, hosted by Richard Skipper Laurie Beechman RICKY RITZEL’S BROADWAY Created and produced by Ricky Ritzel, staging and choreography by Jay Rogers and Aaron Morishita Don’t Tell Mama SALON Mark Janas, founder, artistic director, host; Tanya Moberly, executive producer Etcetera, Etcetera SPOTLIGHT ON YOU OPEN MIC Created, produced, and hosted by Natasha Castillo and John Koprowski 53 Above TWIZTED SISTERZ SERIES (Distorted Diznee; Sickening Superheroes; Kracked Kristmess; Hacked Halloween) Produced by SpinCycleNYC, hosted by Holly Dae and Bootsie Le Faris Laurie Beechman REVUE OR SPECIAL PRODUCTION IT HELPS TO SING ABOUT IT: THE SONGS OF BEN SCHAECHTER AND DAN KAEL Music by Ben Schaecter, lyrics by Dan Kael, directed by Sara Louise Lazarus, produced by Nora Davis Metropolitan Room JAZZ IN THE CITY: THE NEW YORK CONNECTION Conceived by Charles R. Hale, developed by Charles R. Hale and David Raleigh, directed by Natalie Douglas Duplex LAVENDER SONGS: A QUEER WEIMAR BERLIN CABARET Written and performed by Jeremy Lawrence, directed by Jason Jacobs Pangea LIVE TO TELL: MY LIFE, MADONNA'S SONGS Created by Kim Sutton, Steven Ray Watkins, and Lennie Watts; starring Kim Sutton Laurie Beechman MAMA'S NEXT BIG ACT Produced by Don't Tell Mama and Lennie Watts Don't Tell Mama - 8 - METROSTAR TALENT CHALLENGE Produced by Joseph Macchia, Tom Gamblin, Beck Lee, Bernie Furshpan Metropolitan Room NASTY DREW & THAT HARDER BOY Created, written and directed by Chris Harder Laurie Beechman NEW YORK'S NEXT TOP DRAG QUEEN Created and produced by Joseph Macchia Metropolitan Room SALTY BRINE: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Conceived, written, and performed by Salty Brine, directed by Max Reuben Pangea THIRTYWHATEVER Conceived and directed by Eric Michael Gillett, songs written by Patrick Dwyer Laurie Beechman TOGETHER: THE 2017 MAC-NOMINATED FEMALE VOCALISTS Starring Celia Berk, Sally Darling, Meg Flather, Josephine Sanges, Lisa Viggiano, directed by Jeff Harnar, musical direction by John M. 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