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MARK NADLER

Mark Nadler starred in and co-wrote the off-Broadway Gershwin revue, American Rhapsody which was nominated for a Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award and received the Manhattan Association Of Cabarets (MAC) Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. He received the MAC award three years in a row for outstanding Musical Comedy Performer and 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. 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. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops Orchestra, at Town Hall and in almost every significant night-club in New York City, and Los Angeles, notably, The Village Gate, the Blue Angel, Club Tatou (both in New York and Beverly Hills), The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, The Cabaret at the Russian Tea Room, two years of Thursdays at the Cinegrill in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Ballroom, L_Omnibus de Maxim_s and the West Bank Cabaret where he was, at the age of nineteen, the house master-of-ceremonies and musical director. He has just completed his fourth season at Sardi's. Abroad, Mark has performed in England, France, Belgium and Holland.

On Broadway Mark has appeared as "The Fingers On The Keys" in Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Pinky Pickles in The Sheik of Avenue ŒB_. Other New York theatrical credits include Nicky in Noel Coward_s The Vortex for New Directions Theatre and leading roles in John Glines_ productions of Robert Patrick_s Untold Decades and To Dinner With Friends directed by Peter Pope. Favorite regional roles have been Tony Whitcomb, the outrageous hair-dresser in the Ft. Lauderdale and San Francisco companies ofShear Madness; the octagenarian piano-yukelele and chimes playing, dancing and singing Miss Mabel in Radio Gals, (a role which he reprised for the cast album), Lucky in Dames at Sea, Linus in You_re a Good Man Charley Brown and the Leading Player in Pippin.

On television Mark played Freddie Martini on, and was the musical director of Café DuArt. He has been presented on the Phil Donahue Show, A Current Affair and Live with Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford. He has entertained at parties for the likes of Katherine Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine,Donald Trump and others. Mark was the miming ring-master of the international Cirque du Monde. As a vocal coach, he has worked with many, including Tony Award nominee, Donna Theodore, Heather Mac Rae and Glenn Close. Mark arranged and coached Ms. Close's performance of "Bye Bye Blackbird" for the film, Maxie. His recordings, Mark Nadler: Out There and American Rhapsody: George Gershwin to the World (with KT Sullivan) are distributed by Original Cast Recordings. Mark is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy.

 

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