KT Sullivan & Mark Nadler

KT Sullivan

9/21/07—Read NY Times review of her cabaret show, Autumn in New York.

KT Sullivan’s Broadway credits include The Three Penny Opera with Sting, the play Broadway directed by George Abbott, and the leading role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She also played feature roles in the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun as well as the workshop production of Easter Parade with Tommy Tune. Off-Broadway, KT appeared in Splendora and A My Name is Still Alice. With Mark Nadler she co-wrote and starred in American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World, receiving Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations and winning the MAC Award for best musical revue. Her regional theatre credits include the Old Globe Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Municipal Opera of St. Louis, Missouri Rep, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse and The Great Lakes Theater Festival, where her roles have ranged from Frances in Light Up The Sky and Carrie in Carousel to Meg in Brigadoon and Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.

KT has been featured several times at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Lincoln Center and The Caramoor Festival. She has also performed at The Spoleto Festival, La Nouvelle Eve in Paris, The Chichester Festival in the U.K. and several times at The Adelaide Festival in Australia. Since 1992 KT has been a regular headliner at the Oak Room of New York’s Algonquin Hotel and for several years has starred at the Sabarsky Café of the Neue Gallerie on Fifth Avenue and Live on the Park in London. She made her West End debut in Vienna to Weimar at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre in 2004 and has returned annually in Noel Coward and Irving Berlin revues. In addition, KT has recorded seven albums on the DRG label, including “Crazy World” (voted #1 in the vocals category of Tower Records’ Pulse Magazine) and “Live From Rainbow and Stars: The Songs of Bart Howard,” which won Backstage magazine’s Bistro Award. Her latest CD of the songs of Cole Porter with Mr. Nadler and saxophonist Loren Schoenberg was recorded last fall during an extended engagement at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia.

On television, KT has guest starred on Police Squad, Night Court, Remington Steele, Hardcastle and McCormick, Cabaret 13 with Michael Feinstein and In Performance at the White House, with Mary Martin. Liza Minelli presented KT Sullivan with the Manhattan Association of Cabarets’ Outstanding Female Vocalist Award and Irish America Magazine named her one of its Top 100 Irish-Americans. On that note, KT is proud to be married to outstanding Irish American Steve Downey.

Mark Nadler

Mark Nadler starred in and co-wrote the off-Broadway Gershwin revue, American Rhapsody, which was nominated for a Drama Desk and two Lucille Lortel Awards and received the Manhattan Association Of Cabarets (MAC) Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. Additionally, he received the MAC award three years in a row for outstanding Musical Comedy Performer and in 1990 Mark was given the MAC award for his performance of five different interacting characters in his one man "Opera in Honky-Tonk,” Red Light, co-written with Dawn Hampton. For his show, Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians), which he performed in New York’s Algonquin Hotel, Firebird Supper Club and San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, as well as the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in Australia, Mark was awarded the 2003 Bistro Award for “Continuing To Raise The Standards Of Cabaret Performance.”

He also won the 1994 Bistro Award for outstanding singer/instrumentalist and the 2000 Bistro Award for Outstanding Revue for directing, conceiving and music directing Hard Candy, the songs of Carol Hall. He created and co-stars in Something Wonderful: Richard Rodgers In Song which he has been touring with since 2001 and The Night They Invented Champagne: A Toast to Operetta and the Musicals it Inspired. With KT Sullivan he created and performs A Fine Romance: the Dorothy Fields Songbook; Everything’s Coming Up Roses: the Music of Jule Styne; Sweet and Lowdown: an Evening of Pure Gershwin; A Swell Party: RSVP Cole Porter; Are We A Pair: Songs of Sondheim and Always: The Love Story of Irving Berlin, for which he and Ms. Sullivan received the 2004 Nightlife Award and the 2004 MAC Award, both for Outstanding Revue.

He has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops Orchestra and has been a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Ottawa Symphony and others. He has played New York City’s Town Hall and in almost every significant night-club in New York City, and Los Angeles, notably, four seasons at Sardi’s (where a caricature of Mark hangs among the other famous faces), The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, where Mark appears annually with Ms. Sullivan, The Cinegrill in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Maxim’s and the West Bank Cabaret where he was, at the age of nineteen, the house master-of-ceremonies and musical director. Abroad, Mark has performed in England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland and Australia.

Broadway credits include Dame Edna:The Royal Tour and The Sheik of Avenue ‘B’. At Lincoln Center, Mark co-wrote, directed and starred in The Nose Knows, a tribute to Jimmy Durante for the “Reel to Real” series. Favorite regional roles have been Tony Whitcomb, the outrageous hair-dresser in the Ft. Lauderdale and San Francisco companies of Shear Madness and the octogenarian piano-ukulele and chimes playing, dancing and singing Miss Mabel in Radio Gals, (a role he reprised for the cast album).

On television Mark played Freddie Martini and was the musical director of Café DuArt as well as numerous other television guest appearances. Mark was the miming ringmaster of the International Cirque du Monde. He arranged and coached Glenn Close's performance of "Bye Bye Blackbird" for the film, Maxie. Mark is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Academy Award nominated documentary maker Ray Errol Fox has created Mark Nadler's Broadway Hootenanny, Live from Sardi's available on DVD. With KT Sullivan, Mark has recorded A Fine Romance: a Dorothy Fields Songbook and Always: the Love Story of Irving Berlin. For more information visit www.marknadler.com.