MARK
NADLER
For his most recent
show, I’m
a Stranger Here Myself, Mark
Nadler has been honored with the 2013 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret
Performer, as well as nominations for Cabaret Show of the Year and Best
Celebrity Vocalist (Male or Female) for the Broadway World Cabaret Awards. 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, National Arts Centre Symphony in Ottawa
and others. At Philadelphia’s 14,000 seat Mann Center for the Performing Arts,
Mark did a solo two-act evening with the New York Pops, as well as Three
Singular Sensations with Marvin
Hamlisch and Martin Short.
He 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 additionally, 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. Mark has created and performs many one-man shows including Crazy
1961, They
Can’t Take That Away From Me: Music Of George
Gershwin, Let’s Misbehave: A Cole Porter Suaree, Mark Nadler In A Nutshell, and …His Lovely Wife Ira: Ira Gershwin
With and Without George for
which Mark received the Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Solo
Performance. 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.” Tschaikowsky
(and Other Russians) was
reworked as a theatrical one man show called Russian on the Side, which played in Chicago and San Francisco,
garnering Mark the Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding One-Person
show. He also won the Bistro Award for
outstanding singer/instrumentalist and for Outstanding Revue for directing,
conceiving and music directing Hard Candy: The Songs Of Carol Hall.
He created and
co-stars in Something
Wonderful: The Songs Of Richard Rodgers and The Night They Invented Champagne:
A Toast To Operetta and The Musicals It Inspired. With KT Sullivan he created and performs Make
Someone Happy …In The Words Of Comden and Green, A Fine Romance: A 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: Sondheim’s Words and Music, Gershwin Here To Stay and Always: The Love Story Of Irving
Berlin, for which he and Ms.
Sullivan received the Nightlife Award and the MAC Award, both for Outstanding
Revue.
Mark 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), 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, 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, Scotland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Israel and Australia.
Broadway credits include Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and The Sheik Of Avenue ‘B’. At Lincoln Center, Mark cowrote, directed and
starred in Schnozzola,
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).
Academy
Award nominated documentary maker Ray Errol Fox has created Mark
Nadler’s Broadway Hootenanny, Live from Sardi’s which is available on DVD. His
recordings include Crazy 1961, Beyond Words: Lyrics of
Ira Gershwin and Tschaikowsky
(and Other Russians),
which Mark recorded live at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. With KT
Sullivan, Mark has recorded A Fine Romance: a Dorothy Fields Songbook, A Swell Party - RSVP
Cole Porter and
Always: the Love Story of Irving Berlin. For more information and to purchase his recordings, visit www.MarkNadler.com.