Tracy Stark: News

I won 2 MAC awards!!!!
It was an amazing night for me. And, the best part, was that both of my categories were in the first 5 minutes of the 4 hour presentation. So, I got to relax for the rest of the show!

Plus, the wonderful Ben Cherry won for Male Debut, and Miles Phillips/Karen Oberlin won for Duo show.

What an amazing experience, being on a stage with Carson Kressley, Michael Urie, Hillary Duff, and Sarah Dash, overlooking 45,000 enthusiastic people, who care enough to walk to abolish AIDS. They raised 4.5 million dollars. I played with Sarah Dash (from LaBelle) -- we closed the ceremony. It felt magical to me.

I musical directed 3 shows last year, that were nominated for MAC awards!!
Ben Cherry, for his debut show, "I Hate NY (a love story)"
David Gurland/Brian Farley do Rogers and Hammerstein
Miles Phillips/Karen Oberlin for "The Pleasure of Your Company"

PLUS, I was nominated for 2 categories myself!
For Musical Director, and also for Piano Bar.
Yee-haw! I love my job. And I love having such unique and amazingly talented friends.
The awards are on May 18th. I'll try to remember to update this, after the ceremony -- but I can't promise anything....

I'm hard at work, writing arrangements, and rehearsing. I have a bunch of fun shows coming up in March, including Ellen Hoffman's Once Upon a Dream, Donna Moore's Cougar Cabaret, and Ben Cherry -- who just won the Cabaret Hotline Award for Debut Male Vocalist! Yay! He's reviving his debut show, I HATE NY....A love story. And then we'll be working on his follow-up show.

I'm also writing and reworking arrangements for the Delivery Girls gig on March 20th. That's always a fun gig!

Also, Karen Black is going to be back in town!! Just booked March 23rd with her. She's doing a show that melds her past 2 shows together. So, this one will be autobiographical, plus -- she'll also be doing scenes. I think she's brilliant. I always have to be careful to pay attention to my own job, when I do shows with her, because I get so emotionally involved when I watch her act.

OH! We have 1 final show of "The Pleasure of Your Company" which is the duets show of Miles Phillips/Karen Oberlin, on Feb 28th, at the Metropolitan Room. It's a beautiful show!

I love CDbaby.com! They have this really easy way of setting up a website, so I can actually control it myself. It's idiot-proof! So, maybe now I can actually update my website every so often, instead of every 8 years!