FEMALE VOCALIST NATALIE ARNESON I Love Being Here with You Don’t Tell Mama, The Café at the Society for Ethical Culture, Ovations (Houston, TX)

ANDREA AXELROD Almost Like Being in Love Metropolitan Room

CELIA BERK Manhattan Serenade Metropolitan Room

LUCILLE CARR-KAFFASHAN Unwritten: Celebrating 21st Century Female Singer-Songwriters Don’t Tell Mama

NATASHA CASTILLO Feels Like Home Don’t Tell Mama

SALLY DARLING Totally Noël Don’t Tell Mama

JAYCEE DRIESEN A Tribute to Barbra Metropolitan Room

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

ADRIENNE HAAN Berlin to Broadway; Adrienne Haan Sings Kurt Weill Metropolitan Room

MARNIE KLAR Tuned In Don’t Tell Mama

MINDA LARSEN My Southern Song Metropolitan Room

CAROL LIPNIK Goddess of Imperfection Pangea

1 SUSANNE MACK Reconciliation Pangea

TANYA MOBERLY Tanya Moberly Sings Harry Nilsson; Tanya Moberly Sings the Blues; Tanya Moberly Sings Amy Winehouse, Ani DiFranco, Ricky Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell; Tanya Moberly Sings Kenny Loggins Don’t Tell Mama

PEREZ Perez, My Way – Sinatra Metropolitan Room

DORA RUBIN Same Pony—Different Dress Metropolitan Room

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

CAROL SHEDLIN Romance in the Dark Don’t Tell Mama

MADELAINE WARREN Moving Forward by Looking Backward at the Great American Songbook Don’t Tell Mama

AMY BETH WILLIAMS Carried Away Don’t Tell Mama

MALE VOCALIST IRA LEE COLLINGS Simply, Ira Lee Don’t Tell Mama

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

2 JESSE LUTTRELL Show Stopper Feinstein's/54 Below, Off Key Tikki

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

RICHARD MALAVET Billy Eckstine Project: Songs in the Key of B; Midnight Moods Metropolitan Room

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

MIKEL Detour Triad

JOHN MINNOCK Metropolitan Room

DAVID SABELLA Loopin’ the Loop – A Celebration of Metropolitan Room

ANTHONY SANTELMO JR Christmas in August; Christmas on Halloween; Christmas in December Don’t Tell Mama

KIM DAVID SMITH Morphium Kabarett Pangea, Neue Galerie, Crown & Anchor (Provincetown)

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

KELLY WRIGHT Metropolitan Room

3 MAJOR ARTIST ERIC COMSTOCK Pangea

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

GAYE MARSHALL Gaye's Paree Pangea

MARIEANN MERINGOLO Between Yesterday and Tomorrow: The Songs of Marilyn & Alan Bergman Feinstein's/54 Below

MARISSA MULDER Marilyn in Fragments Laurie Beechman, Metropolitan Room

SIDNEY MYER Live at the Beechman Laurie Beechman

KAREN OBERLIN Bad Love: The Randy Newman Songbook; Heart and Soul: The Frank Loesser Songbook; Karen Oberlin Salutes Spring; His Aim Is True: The Singular Songs of Elvis Costello Metropolitan Room, Crazy Coqs (London), Royal Room (Palm Beach), Red House (Syracuse)

SARAH RICE Music of the Night Pangea

TAMMY FAYE STARLITE Holy War 2016: The New Regime Pangea

STACY SULLIVAN A Night at the Troubadour Metropolitan Room

4 CELEBRITY CHRISTINE ANDREAS Feinstein's/54 Below

JOEY ARIAS Little Black Book Pangea

MELISSA ERRICO Feinstein's/54 Below

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Feinstein's/54 Below

DONNA MCKECHNIE Feinstein's/54 Below

JINKX MONSOON Jinkx Sings Everthing Laurie Beechman

VIVIAN REED An Evening with Vivian Reed – Standards and More Metropolitan Room

JARROD SPECTOR Feinstein's/54 Below

PAULO SZOT Feinstein's/54 Below

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

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

D'VORAH BAILEY Wishful Thinking Metropolitan Room

HANNAH BURKE Why Is Everyone Laughing? Don't Tell Mama, Metropolitan Room, Duplex

LINDSEY BRETT CAROTHERS The Voice Within 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  ANGELA LEONE All My Tomorrows Don’t Tell Mama

JUDY PANCOAST All My Best Memories: Built by the Carpenters Don’t Tell Mama

PEGGY SARLIN Metropolitan Room

DEBORAH STONE The Good, the Bad, and the Lovely; Deborah Stone Sings; Exactly Where I Belong Don’t Tell Mama, Metropolitan Room, Guild Hall Episcopal Actors' Guild

TONI THOMPSON Toni Thompson Takes on NYC Don’t Tell Mama, West End Lounge, 53 Above

KATIE WELSH Women in the World of Sondheim; From Songbook to Sondheim Duplex, Metropolitan Room, Feinstein's/54 Below, Don’t Tell Mama

6 NEW YORK DEBUT – MALE

MATT DIPASQUALE Neither Here nor There Duplex

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

CHRISTOPHER HOWATT Hear My Song Don’t Tell Mama

BILLY LYKKEN Sacred Monster Don’t Tell Mama

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

COURTER SIMMONS Under the "C" — Cacophony Daniels Sings the Songs of Howard Ashman Duplex 

SPOKEN WORD ARTIST COLE ESCOLA First Gay President Duplex

KAREN FINLEY Unicorn Gratitude Mystery Laurie Beechman

SHAWN MONINGER Because I Can 2: Second Addiction Metropolitan Room

DOMINICK PUPA Cherstruck; Dom We Now Our Gay Apparel 2016! Cutting Room, Duplex, The Virgil (L.A.)

7 IMPERSONATION/CHARACTERIZATION/ ARTIST ALASKA Christmas Is Gay Laurie Beechman

BENDELACREME Inferno A-Go-Go Laurie Beechman

MARGOH! CHANNING MargOH! Channing Is Uncorked; MargOH! Channing Is Hung Pangea  KELLEY KAREL Hillary Confidential: A Heart-to-Heart Cocktail Cabaret; Hillary Confidential 2.0: Pre-Madame President Duplex, Laurie Beechman

LADY BUNNY Trans Jester Stonewall Inn

PORSCHE The Girl with 1000 Voices Stonewall Inn

LATRICE ROYALE Here's to Life Laurie Beechman

RICK SKYE Liza Live! Don’t Tell Mama

PAIGE TURNER She Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Make America Gay Again; Easter Egg- stravaganza Laurie Beechman

8 MUSICAL COMEDY PERFORMER MATTHEW HOLLOWAY Mother Always Said Duplex

NATALIE JOY JOHNSON Duplex

JASON KRAVITS Off the Top Duplex

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

BILLIE ROE Monopoly Metropolitan Room

AARON WEINSTEIN Violinspiration Pangea

DUO/GROUP ERIC COMSTOCK & BARBARA FASANO Summer Standard Time; Downton Abbey Road; Sun, Skin, Sin, Sinatra; Come a Little Closer Birdland, Germano's (Baltimore), Bridge Street Theatre (Catskill, NY)

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

SALLY MAYES & JEFF HARNAR Double Take Laurie Beechman

ROCKAPELLA Hits Like You Never Heard Feinstein's/54 Below

THOSE GIRLS Those Girls at the Beechman Laurie Beechman

9 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

"DISTORTED" DRAG SHOWS Produced by Spin Cycle NYC, hosted by Bootsie LeFaris and Holly Dae Laurie Beechman

POMPIE'S PLACE Created by Arthur Pomposello, Beck Lee, Ehud Asherie (musical director), Gregg Goldston (director) Pangea

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

RECURRING SERIES AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY SERIES Produced by Linda Amiel Burns Musicians Hall at Local 802

BROADWAY SESSIONS Produced and hosted by Ben Cameron Laurie Beechman

A GAY SHOW FOR ALL PEOPLE Produced by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp Duplex

GROOVIN’ ON A SUNDAY Ann McCormack, producer; Woody Regan, musical director Don’t Tell Mama

IN THE WORKS Produced by Thomas Honeck and Lisa Moss Duplex

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

10 JOE ICONIS AND FAMILY Created and written by Joe Iconis; shows at Feinstein's/54 Below produced by Jennifer Ashley Tepper Laurie Beechman, Feinstein's/54 Below

MADAME MATHIEU’S SOIREE Produced by Drew Fornarola and Tyler Spicer Duplex

NANCY WITTER'S COMEDY VARIETY SERIES Produced by Nancy Witter Don't Tell Mama

NEW YORK CABARET’S GREATEST HITS Created and produced by Stephen Hanks; Fr. Jeffrey Hamblin, associate producer 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

THE SONGWRITER PROJECT (Dan Furman Project; Mike Petry Project; Patrick Dwyer Project; Holiday Project) Produced by Eric Michael Gillett Collective Laurie Beechman

THE Q Produced by Joseph Macchia Metropolitan Room

THIS IS YOUR NIGHT Produced by Bernie Furshpan Metropolitan Room

TUNE IN TIME Produced by Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields; written by Amy Engelhardt and Nate Buccieri (musical director), emceed by Emily McNamara York Theatre Company

11 EMCEE LINDA AMIEL BURNS American Popular Song Society Series Musicians Hall at Local 802

BEN CAMERON Broadway Sessions Laurie Beechman

MICHAEL COLBY The Algonquin Kid American Popular Song Society, Stuyvesant Community Center, Brandeis/South River Public Library, Yiddish Culture Club at the Ponds, Temple Shaaray Tefila

HOLLY DAE New York's Next Top Metropolitan Room

HOLLY DAE & BOOTSIE LEFARIS "Distorted" drag series Laurie Beechman

DREW FORNAROLA Madame Mathieu’s Soiree Duplex

BERNIE FURSHPAN This Is Your Night Metropolitan Room

TOM GAMBLIN MetroStar Talent Challenge Metropolitan Room

BOBBIE HOROWITZ It's Just a Number Metropolitan Room

AARON JACKSON & JOSH SHARP A Gay Show for All People Duplex

EMILY MCNAMARA Tune in Time York Theatre Company

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

12 SPECIAL PRODUCTION THE ALGONQUIN KID Written and hosted by Michael Colby American Popular Song Society, Stuyvesant Community Center, Brandeis/South River Public Library, Yiddish Culture Club at the Ponds, Temple Shaaray Tefila

GUILTY PLEASURES CABARET Produced by Andrea Palesh and Bridget Bose Duplex, Feinstein's/54 Below

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 Triad

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

LATE NIGHTS IN SMOKEY BARS Performed by Barbara Bleier & Austin Pendleton, directed by Barbara Maier Gustern Pangea

MABEL MADNESS Written and performed by Trezana Beverly, directed by Peter Napolitano and Frances Hill Urban Stages

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

MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET Conceived 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 Don't Tell Mama, 42West

NEW YORK'S NEXT TOP DRAG QUEEN Produced by Joseph Macchia Metropolitan Room

13 MUSICAL DIRECTOR NATE BUCCIERI Tommy J. Dose (Don't Tell Mama), Elaine Brier (Cutting Room), Tune in Time (York Theatre Company), Anne Steele (Joe's Pub)

YASUHIKO "YAZ" FUKUOKA Gone Too Soon (Metropolitan Room), Stacy Sullivan (Metropolitan Room), Billy Lykken (Don't Tell Mama)

WILLIAM TN HALL Puttin' on the Brits (Laurie Beechman), Halloween Special (Laurie Beechman), Gerry Vega (Duplex), Noland King (Laurie Beechman)

MARK HARTMAN David Sabella (Metropolitan Room), Natalie Douglas (Freedom Songs, Human Heart, Birdland), 54 Below Sings My Fair Lady (Feinstein's/54 Below)

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), MargGO! Channing (Pangea)

MATTHEW MARTIN WARD Sally Darling (Don’t Tell Mama), Christine Pedi (Feinstein's/54 Below), Wendy Sherl (Don’t Tell Mama), Barbara Malley (Laurie Beechman), Cathy Taylor (Don't Tell Mama)

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)

14 DIRECTOR MAX FRIEDMAN Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band (Feinstein's/54 Below), Julia Mattison (Feinstein's/54 Below), Midnight at the Never Get (Don't Tell Mama, 42West), Alexander Sage Oyen (Don't Tell Mama)

ERIC MICHAEL GILLETT Jarrod Spector (Feinstein's/54 Below), The Dan Furman Project (Laurie Beechman), The Mike Petry Project (Laurie Beechman), The Patrick Dwyer Project (Laurie Beechman), The Holiday Project (Laurie Beechman)

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)

TANYA MOBERLY Amy Beth Williams (Don’t Tell Mama), Kathleen France (Iridium), Gregory Harrell (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)

GRETCHEN REINHAGEN Cabaret Cares Gala (Metropolitan Room), Bob Diamond (Don’t Tell Mama), Irenka Jakubiak (Metropolitan Room), Bennett Silverstein (Don’t Tell Mama)

TOM TOCE Emerging Songwriters from Yale (American Popular Song Society), The Harvard Yale Cantata (Feinstein's/54 Below), Circles (Urban Stages), Songwriter Alliance Holiday Showcase (Metropolitan Room)

15 NOTE:  The following categories will not appear on the Preliminary Ballot. For these categories, nominees will be chosen by special committees and will appear on the Final Ballot. o PIANO BAR/RESTAURANT SINGING ENTERTAINER o PIANO BAR INSTRUMENTALIST o RESTAURANT/HOTEL LOUNGE ENTERTAINER o ENSEMBLE INSTRUMENTALIST o TECHNICAL DIRECTOR  The SONG, COMEDY/NOVELTY SONG, RECORDING, and MAJOR RECORDING categories will not appear on the Preliminary Ballot. Special committees will choose the nominees for the Final Ballot from the submissions listed below.

SONG ALL I SEE IS YOU BACK TO NEW YORK BEFORE I FORGET BREATH AWAY CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK DREAM A LITTLE DREAM EV’RY PORT FILLING SPACE FIND ME HARMLESS LITTLE SIN IT’S TIME FOR LOVE A LITTLE LOVE IN BIG MANHATTAN MORE THAN FINE ’S SONG NEW YORK IS CLOSING RUNNING AWAY THE SECRET SOMETIMES I WONDER STUCK THIRTY-FIVE YEARS THE VOTING SONG WAITING WOULD I TRADE

16 COMEDY/NOVELTY SONG THE CHRISTMAS TREE BLUES DOIN’ IT FOR AMERICA! DON’T EAT YELLOW SNOW DREAM BALLET I’LL KEEP YOUR STOCKING STUFFED THE MOM SONG A NEW YEAR’S EVE LOVE SONG SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR CHOCOLATE SELFIE SHOVE IT UP YOUR FAIRYTALE SITTING AT 'S PIANO SO MANY REASONS A SONG OF ENCOURAGEMENT 10,000 MILES WANDERING EYE WELCOME TO ANOTHER DAY WHAT’S A DAD TO DO? YOU JUDGE

17 RECORDING (LAMOTT FRIEDMAN AWARD)

CELIA BERK Manhattan Serenade

SCOTT EVAN DAVIS Next

SUZANNE LORGE Wild Birds

ANTHONY SANTELMO JR. Songs for the Season

TOM TOCE Songwriter in the House

MAJOR RECORDING MARY FOSTER CONKLIN Photographs

NATALIE DOUGLAS Human Heart

MARCUS SIMEONE Together

TRACY STARK Shades of Beautiful – The Tracy Stark Songbook

STACY SULLIVAN with John Weber Stranger in a Dream

TALES OF TINSELTOWN Music by Paul Katz, Lyrics by Michael Colby

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