"I just returned from a week in Colorado studying at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp with the likes of Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Mason, Shelly Markham, Barry Kleinbort, Christopher Denny and David Gaines (precious gems all, believe me) and I cannot tell you in just a few words what an amazing experience this was, but I'll try to be brief. There was a group of 12 of us, all from varying styles of music. There was not one ego trip or energy sap among us and it was an atmosphere of complete trust and mutual respect and love of the arts and for each other. . . . The camp itself is splendorous. The mountains of Colorado were all around us. Horses running in the fields. We camped in beautiful log cabins and were fed 5 star cuisine. . . . The concert was one of the best shows I’ve ever been a part of and I had the honor of singing “Here’s to Life” which became so much deeper a song to me after having had this wonderful experience with these new friends in this extraordinary place."

Sue Matsuki

"I knew when I left Steamboat that the week had been potentially life-changing and, indeed, my career has benefited greatly. My October performances, informed by the training in The Art of Cabaret, were not only received, but got a rave review in Back Stage, and from a critic who is notoriously hard to please. I couldn't have done it without that week with the Perry-Mansfield cabaret faculty."

Kate Loitz
2006 Back Stage Bistro Award winner for Vocalist

Admission by Audition Only

Limited to 16 Participants

2007 Participants & Faculty

Read an essay from 2005 participant Hillary Ann Feldman Read an article by faculty member Andrea Marcovicci at Theatermania

2008 Workshop Dates:
August 18 - August 25

Master Teachers

• Andrea Marcovicci
• Teri Ralston
• Christopher Denny
• Barry Kleinbort
• Shelly Markham
• David Gaines

The Art of Cabaret is an intensive workshop designed for performers who wish to explore this time-honored medium. The faculty has been carefully assembled to reflect the best that the art form has to offer in the areas of performance, composition, direction and musical direction. A maximum of 16 participants will study in small group sessions that meet twice daily. Evenings will consist of special topic presentations by our faculty and guests, the opportunity to see the renowned faculty perform in concert and a visit to the local hot springs. The weeklong intensive will culminate in a public concert given by those participating in the program.

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ADMISSION AND COSTS
Admission to the program is by audition only. Participation in a live audition is preferred, however performers may request consideration for a video audition. To schedule a live audition, please call Perry-Mansfield at 800-430-ARTS (2787). To inquire about submitting a video, please e-mail a performance and training resume to p-m@perry-mansfield.org, with Art of Vocal Performance Workshop application in the subject line.

Live Audition Locations:
NEW YORK CITY
Monday, February 11 and Monday, April 14
11 am to 2 pm each day
Conference Room, 6th floor ASCAP NY
One Lincoln Plaza New York, NY 10023

LOS ANGELES
Monday, March 10
11 am to 2 pm
ASCAP office, 7920 W. Sunset Boulevard, Third Floor Los Angeles, CA 90046

Audition Preparation:
Please prepare 10 minutes of material of your choice. Your material can include patter, or not. Also, please bring your book with you, in case there is a request for a specific type of song. An accompanist is provided.

Cost: $2,400 includes the workshop, all meals, activities and lodging

Payment Policy: (check or credit card)
$500 nonrefundable deposit is due upon notification of acceptance
Balance is due July 1st

ArtsPass.com Invites You to Watch an Exclusive Video Interview and Performance by Cabaret Chanteuse ANDREA MARCOVICCI

Andrea Marcovicci, the Queen of Cabaret, “torch singer, spellbinder, heart-breaker” (People) was hailed as the “most Sinatra-like” of the new generation of cabaret performers by Life Magazine. “The most throbbingly irresistible voice in cabaret” stated New York Magazine, while Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, “Andrea Marcovicci has an incandescent enthusiasm and a masterly balance between poignancy and wit.

Cabaret legend Andrea Marcovicci continues to entertain sold-out audiences from coast to coast whenever touring her numerous critically acclaimed shows. She just completed her nineteenth season at the legendary Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel with a reprise of her most requested show, I’ll Be Seeing You… Love Songs of WWII and her famed creation, Andrea Sings Astaire. (Also available on CD.) In May of this year Andrea returns to the Oak Room with a brand new show - just love…by request. A departure from her traditional theme shows just love…by request features classic and contemporary material crafted with the collaborative air of spontaneity.

In November Andrea created, performed and directed Kurt Weill in America with a cast of six at the prestigious Lyrics And Lyricists Series at the 92Y. Last April Andrea played to sold-out houses at the esteemed LICEU Opera House in Barcelona and celebrated her Twentieth Anniversary at the Gardenia in Hollywood with I’ll Be Seeing You, Love Songs of WWII. Last Spring Andrea served as Director and Artistic Director for Easy to Love, The Lyrics of Cole Porter for Lyrics and Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y. In the fall of 2003, and again in 2004, she directed the Cabaret Concert for Young Audiences at the New York Cabaret Convention.

Ms. Marcovicci has thirteen CDs to her credit. Her most recent releases, Andrea Sings Astaire, How’s Your Romance? Andrea Marcovicci Sings Cole Porter and If I Were A Bell ~ The Songs of Frank Loesser, debuted on her own record label, Andreasong.

In 2005 Andrea released her very own Calendar replete with luscious photos and anecdotes of her life and career in television, film and theatre. An actress and singer, Andrea began on the daytime television series Love Is A Many Splendored Thing. She debuted on Broadway in Ambassador, the musical adaptation of the novel by Henry James, staring Howard Keel and last appeared on the Great White Way in Frank D. Gilroy’s play Any Given Day with Sada Thompson. Her numerous appearances off-Broadway include The Wedding of Iphigenia, Variety Obit, and The Seagull. She performed Ophelia to Sam Waterston’s Hamlet for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park. Ms. Marcovicci received rave reviews for her performances in the leading roles of the American Conservatory Theater productions of St. Joan (1989), Burn This (1990) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1991). In Los Angeles, she starred opposite Anthony Newley in Chaplin, portraying all the legendary actor’s wives and starred in the Philadelphia revival of Lady in the Dark at the Prince Music Theatre. Her film credits include: The Front (nominated for a Golden Globe Award) with Woody Allen, The Hand with Sir Michael Caine, The Stuff with Michael Moriarty, Spacehunter with Peter Strauss, The Canterville Ghost with Sir John Gielgud, Henry Jaglom’s Someone To Love (featuring Orson Welles in his last film appearance), and Jack the Bear, as Danny DeVito’s wife. Her many television appearances include Arliss for HBO, Cybil, Taxi, Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues, and Trapper John, M.D., among others and numerous made-for-television movies. She most recently appeared in Strong Medicine on the Lifetime network.

Andrea was most honored to usher in the Millennium with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her concert work includes appearances with the San Francisco Pops, Florida Philharmonic, and Oregon and Ft. Worth Symphonies among others. Her 1993 Carnegie Hall solo debut, with the American Symphony Orchestra, was to a sold-out audience. Prior to that, Carnegie Hall commissioned December Songs specifically created for Andrea by Maury Yeston. The concert was then reconceived as a ballet by Lynn Taylor Corbett and premiered with Andrea at The Carolina Ballet in 2002. Lincoln Center commissioned both her Noel Coward show and her Kurt Weill in America. The latter is the genesis of her latest Lyrics & Lyricists show.

Enjoying the intimate art of cabaret performance, Andrea has appeared at numerous prestigious nightclubs throughout the country including the famed Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, The Plush Room in San Francisco, Le Chat Noir of New Orleans and many others. Her London cabaret debut in 1994 sold out a one-month engagement at the Music Room at Pizza on the Park. Sheridan Morley, theater critic of The Spectator and The International Herald-Tribune, called her “the greatest cabaret star of her generation.” Peter Hepple in The Stage and Television Today wrote, “Marcovicci cast her spell, with a voice of supreme tenderness, much rangier than at first appeared, with a thrillingly controlled vibrato, marvelous diction and phrasing that can only come from a skilled actress.”

Andrea Marcovicci has performed at the White House and her numerous fundraising efforts have produced everything from building additions to aiding the disenfranchised. She is the recipient of several awards and honors including two Lifetime Achievement Awards, one from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs and the other a Backstage Bistro. In recognition of her accomplishments in the arts, Andrea received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. For more information please visit www.marcovicci.com.

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Teri Ralston celebrated the New Year with "Teri Ralston, Home Again" for two performances at the Metropolitan Room in New York. Her first solo CD, I'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO NEW YORK, is being released in August, featuring her share of Stephen Sondheim's songs, joined by musical director Shelly Markham. They will be reprising their show at the Gardenia in Los Angeles and at the Metropolitan Room this Fall. Teri spent her formative years creating roles in the original casts of Company, A Little Night Music, The Baker's Wife and Home Again (a little known Cy Coleman musical). Teri's association with Sondheim has continued over the years, having performed or directed 11 of his works. She directed and performed in Side-By-Side-By-Sondheim with Peggy Lee and has performed Sally in three productions of Follies - one that she also directed featuring Harvey Evans, Kurt Peterson, Julie Wilson, Betty Garrett and John Raitt. As a soloist with Michael Feinstein, she performed with the New Mexico Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl, and is featured on 5 original cast albums. Teri has appeared in many television shows as well, including "Frasier", "Dharma and Greg", "Geppetto", "Wings", "Murder She Wrote", "Married With Children", and "The Bold and the Beautiful ."

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Christopher Denny has served as musical director, arranger and pianist for such theater, cabaret and opera luminaries as Karen Mason, Julie Wilson, Brent Barrett, David Campbell, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Loudon, Judy Kaye, Steven Brinberg and Rodney Gilfry, earning, in the process, two Back Stage Bistro Awards and four Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) Awards for Outstanding Musical Direction. His duties have taken him to virtually all of the major rooms in New York and throughout the country, notably including Carnegie Hall, where he performed with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, and the Opera Liceu in Barcelona, as well as to Australia and London’s West End. His film work includes having produced the recording sessions of Placido Domingo for Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-winning musical film, Moulin Rouge. This season, he has been co-creator and arranger for David Arthur’s new musical, Saratoga Trunk Songs, staged at the York Theater in New York and the Stages Festival in Chicago, and was musical director for Norman Mathews’ Dorothy Parker musical, You Might As Well Live, starring Karen Mason, in the New York Music Theater Festival. He was also musical director for the recent New York premiere of Bob Merrill’s “lost” musical, The Prince of Grand Street, starring Mike Burstyn, at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Other favorite credits include musical direction for Barry Kleinbort’s hit musical revue, Big City Rhythm, at the Triad and the Village Gate in New York; for The Songs of Kurt Weill, starring Kitty Carlisle Hart and Paula Lawrence, at the 92nd Street Y; for Tovah Feldshuh in the revue, Can It Be Love; for Joshua and Nedda Logan’s musical memoir, I Remember It Well; and for Will Holt’s Ah, Men, starring Jane White and Stephen Lang, Off-Broadway. Mr. Denny also assisted Agnes de Mille in preparing the gala dance concert, Agnes de Mille and Friends, at the Shubert Theatre in New York. As a vocal coach, he has worked with many promising newcomers and well-established stars, including Boyd Gaines, John Cameron Mitchell, Ethan Hawke, Melissa Errico, Anthony Rapp, Jack Noseworthy, Austin Pendleton and many others. He has recorded more than a dozen CDs.

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Barry Kleinbort has worked as a composer, lyricist and/or librettist, and director over the last twenty years, earning the prestigious Edward Kleban Foundation Award for Lyric Writing, a 2002 and 2003 Gilman-Gonzalez Falla Musical Theater Commendation Award, the 2001 Second Stage Constance Klinsky Music Theater award, two Back Stage Bistro awards, ten Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) awards, and two Cable "Telly" awards. He has directed and/or written special material for such cabaret/theater luminaries as Kaye Ballard, Marcia Lewis, Mary Cleere Haran, Regis Philbin, John Epperson (AKA Lypsinka), Karen Mason, Rita Gardner, Brent Barrett, John Barrowman, Jeff Harnar, Heather MacRae and many, many others. He wrote the incidental music and songs for the off-Broadway production of Second Avenue by Allan Knee and the book, music and lyrics for Angelina, a musical based on That Summer-That Fall by Frank D. Gilroy, which had its world premiere in Albany. As librettist, he also co-wrote with David Levy, Perfect Harmony, a musical play about the lives of the Barry Sisters which completed a highly successful run in Florida. Besides Was, Mr. Kleinbort is currently working on an intimate musical with songwriter Ben Moore, Henry and Co., for Metropolitan Opera star Jerry Hadley (which was workshopped at the Appalachian State Music Festival in Boone, North Carolina.) A highly acclaimed revue of his theater songs Big City Rhythm, which played the Triad Theater in New York City, is available on Harbinger Records.

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Shelly Markham is well known as a arranger, musical director and pianist in both Los Angeles and New York City. He has produced four recordings for the noted cabaret singer, Andrea Marcovicci, including her latest CD release which features the songs of Fred Astaire from her 20th Anniversary show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room in New York City. He arranged and conducted her popular Cole Porter evening, which toured for two years in concert halls nationally and most recently at the famed Liceu Opera House in Barcelona. He has worked with a most diverse roster of performers, including Lanie Kazan, Michael Feinstein, Margaret Whiting, Nell Carter, Ann Jillian, Gogi Grant, Julie Wilson, Chad Mitchell, Carol Lawrence and Bonnie Franklin. As a composer, Shelly has enjoyed a long and successful collaboration with the acclaimed poet and author Judith Viorst. Their musical revue, Love & Shrimp, a celebration of Viorst's poetry and insights, ran at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills and The Ballroom in New York City and is published by Samuel French. Their musical Alexander & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, based on her best-selling children's book, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Now published by Dramatic Publishing, the show toured for two years and became one of the most performed children's musicals in the country. Their sequel Alexander Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going To Move has been touring for nine months and is also being published this fall by Dramatic Publishing. Shelly has also written songs for the long-running hit Off-Broadway show Naked Boys Singing and is currently working on a musical revue about the wonders and terrors of aging called Too Old For The Chorus which was first presented at the ASCAP-Disney Workshop, enjoyed a sold-out run at the Celebration Theater in Los Angeles and is currently being optioned for an Off-Broadway debut. He scored the PBS production of Charley's Aunt starring Charles Grodin and has written special musical material for many popular television series, including Friends, The Nanny, Golden Girls, Gimme A Break and Touched By An Angel.

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David Gaines' most recent theater credits include serving as the musical director for Old Wicked Songs, The Immigrant (both at Westport Country Playhouse), and Picon Pie (Lamb’s Theater). David's NYC credits include Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, the Vineyard, the York and others. He has served as musical director for Liz Swados on several projects (BAM/Next Wave, La Mama, NY Stage & Film) and has worked as an audition pianist/rehearsal pianist on many Broadway and off-Broadway projects. He has served as faculty member of cabaret conferences at the Perry-Mansfield School of the Arts (Steamboat Springs, CO) and the O’Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT), where he musical directed two cabaret evenings for actress/singer Penny Fuller. He has also been a member of the faculty of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch for the past eight years. As musical director/accompanist, David has worked with cabaret artists Jeff Harnar, KT Sullivan, Eric Michael Gillett and Georga Osborne, among others. His arrangements and orchestrations can be heard on the Jamie deRoy compilation CDs Tis the Season, Family, and The Real Thing.

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