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MANHATTAN
ASSOCIATION OF CABARETS
announces date of
38th Annual MAC Awards
VIVIAN REED, LEE
ROY REAMS, and JEAN-PIERRE PERREAUX
to receive
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The Manhattan
Association of Cabarets (MAC) is pleased to make its initial
announcement of the upcoming 38th Annual MAC Awards.
The awards presentation and show will take place on Monday,
April 15, 2024 at 7:00 pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space at
2537 Broadway at 95th Street in New York City.
The MAC Awards honor
excellence in NYC nightlife during the 2023 calendar year.
In addition to live musical performances at the show,
competitive awards will be presented in multiple categories
to performers, songwriters, directors, musical directors,
piano bar performers, behind the scenes technical experts,
and more, as well as the presentation of special honoree
awards. The envelopes will be opened and the winners will be
announced live at the MAC Awards show.
At the event, MAC
will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to three industry
luminaries: Broadway theater veteran, cabaret artist, and
educator VIVIAN REED; Broadway star, director, and
cabaret artist LEE ROY REAMS; and multi-award-winning
sound and lighting designer JEAN-PIERRE PERREAUX.
 VIVIAN
REED Credits include: Tartuffe;
Damn Yankees; Show Boat; Marie Christine; Sophisticated
Ladies; Blues in the Night; Tintypes; The Roar of the
Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd; Bubbling Brown Sugar;
High Rollers; Hallelujah, Baby!; More than a Song; One for
My Baby; The Countess of Storyville; Blues for an Alabama
Sky; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Cookin’ at the Cookery;
The Second Tosca; Pork Pie; and Invisible Life. Awards
include two TONY Award Nominations, Drama
Desk, Mabel Mercer Award, The Robby Critics Award for Best
Actress in a Musical, NAACP Award, Dance Educators of
America Award, AUDELCO Pioneer Award, and Outer Critics
Circle. She has performed in major theaters and clubs around
the world and has created several one woman shows: An
Evening with Vivian Reed; Vivian Reed Sings Lena
Horne; Vivian Reed Standards and More; and A
Little Bit of Soul, A Little Bit of Pop, receiving
critical acclaim both nationwide and abroad. She has also
given back of her talent as an educator, teaching nearly
three years at Berklee College of Music in Boston where she
created a performance class teaching the many aspects of
performing and also establishing a yearly concert event
called Singer’s Night. Presently, Vivian is on the
faculty of Marymount Manhattan College’s voice department in
New York City. Vivian is also the designer of VJR Scarves
and Glam Ponchos on Etsy. Photo by Stephen Mosher.
 LEE ROY
REAMS has been hailed by The
New York Times as “Broadway’s song and dance man
nonpareil” for his leading Broadway roles in The
Producers (Carbonell, Helen Hayes, and Las Vegas Life
Awards); 42nd Street (Tony & Drama Desk Nominations);
Beauty & The Beast; La Cage aux Folles;
Hello, Dolly!; An Evening with Jerry Herman;
Applause; Lorelei; Oklahoma!; and Sweet
Charity. On Broadway, he directed the last revival of
Carol Channing’s Hello, Dolly! and An Evening with
Jerry Herman. His TV, concert, and cabaret appearances
have taken him around the world and to the White House
before four U.S. Presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and
Clinton). Most recently, he played to another sold-out house
at Broadway’s
54 Below and made history as the first American male to star
as Dolly in an Equity production of Hello, Dolly! at
the Wick Theatre, where he also starred in La Cage aux
Folles. He’s a board member of the Chita Rivera Awards
and received the Friars Club Thespian of the Year Award. He
also is the proud recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from
his alma mater, CCM/University of Cincinnati.
 JEAN-PIERRE
PERREAUX was born and raised in
France. Combining his love and studies in electronics and
music he headed up both the music and technical departments
in the Clamart Cultural Center (a suburb of Paris) as well
as a music teacher. He has designed lights and sound for
various nightclubs and theaters in France and USA. This past
decade he has run and overseen—as sound engineer and/or tech
consultant—the lights and sound in many NYC nightclubs and
music spaces. (Arci’s Place, The Encore, Metropolitan Room,
Barnes and Noble...) He was the sound designer for the Big
Apple Circus for five years in a row (2011-2015). Special
events have included outdoor venues such as Under the
Brooklyn Bridge and the annual music festival in Miami.
Jean-Pierre is a Billboard-reviewed record producer
and appears on many CDs as a musician and/or producer/sound
engineer. He has done sound work on various film and TV
projects, and as a multi-faceted technician has a feature in
Live Sound Magazine. He is the recipient of 12
Manhattan Association of Cabaret Awards (2007-10, 2012-15,
2018-2020, 2023) for Best Technical Director and holds the
NYC Bistro Award for Outstanding Achievement in Technical
Direction (2002). Currently, JP works at the Laurie Beechman
Theatre and the Triad Theater as technician manager.
The MAC Awards show
is produced by JULIE MILLER and directed by AMY
WOLK. The musical director and leader of the MAC Awards
Band will be DAN PARDO.
Tickets are available at
https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-the-38th-annual-mac-awards
For more information, visit
www.macnyc.com
Please forward all requests and questions to
CabaretMACnyc@gmail.com
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