Nancy Dussault in MY LIFE…UPON THE WICKED STAGE at Feinstein's/54 Below

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Nancy Dussault in "MY LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE" on September 27, 2016 @ 7:00PM. Nancy will take the audience on a musical journey, returning to those heady days of her Broadway life. Expect this Golden Age leading lady to sing the brilliant songs of Richard Rodgers, Jule Styne, Burton Lane, and Stephen Sondheim. You'll also get to re-live the time when she introduced the classic, "Make Someone Happy". Nancy will regale with tales of being the first co-host of Good Morning America, co-starring in the New Dick Van Dyke show, and starring with Ted Knight in "Too Close For Comfort", before returning to Broadway in Side By Side By Sondheim and Into The Woods. In "My Life-Upon The Wicked Stage" Dussault brings her musicality, comedic storytelling, and unique personal accessibility to songs including "Getting Married Today", "Look To The Rainbow", "Where Is The Tribe For Me", "Old Friend" and of course, " Make Someone Happy".

Christopher Marlowe, Musical Director, was born in a trunk in Washington, D.C., and was the recipient of the 1996 Manhattan Association of Cabaret's Award for Music Director of the Year. Until her untimely death in 1995, Chris was principally associated with singer Nancy Lamott. Nancy's eight albums are still played on hundreds of radio stations around world. They include "Beautful Baby" (1991), " The Songs of Johnny Mercer"(1992), "My Foolish Heart" (1993), "Just in Time for Christmas"(1994), "Listen To my Heart"(1995), "What's Good About Goodby"(1996), and "Live at Tavern on the Green" (2005). "Ask Me Again" spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard charts in 2008. At this writing he has music directed/ arranged and co-produced over 50 CD's of 30 different vocalists. In 2008 Hal Leonard published his best-known arrangements. Chris conducted, arranged and recorded with Kathie Lee Gifford, worked on a pre-Broadway one woman show with Bernadette Peters, music directed David Zippel's All Girl Band at Joe's Pub and "It's Better With a Band" at The Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia. In 2013, Christopher music directed and played for Elaine Paige's first US concert tour, and music directed "Marvin Hamlisch: They're Playing His Songs" at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts, and the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, California. He has performed on Good Morning America, The Today show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, The View, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Late Night With David Letterman, American Idol, Carnegie Hall and twice at the Clinton White House.

Valentine Mayer, Director, arrived in New York City after completing a Master of Arts degree at the University of Pittsburgh and a two year residency at The Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park College. He acted in and/or stage managed 12 Broadway plays and musicals in the ten years he lived in the City, including THE VISIT, CHEMIN DE FER, HOLIDAY, THE RITZ, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (X2), SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM, THE HEIRESS, LEGEND, HAROLD AND MAUDE, DAMN YANKEES and THE WEST SIDE WALTZ; being privileged to work with Katharine Hepburn, Zero Mostel, Rachel Roberts, John McMartin, Richard Kiley, Jane Alexander, Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Herschel Bernardi, Nancy Dussault, Larry Kert, Georgia Brown, Hermione Gingold, Janet Gaynor, and Dorothy Loudon, while working for Harold Prince, Ruth Mitchell, Robert Whitehead, Roger Stevens, T. Edward Hambleton and Jerome Robbins to name but a few.

Since New York, Mayer has made his home in Los Angeles, and has directed multi-camera comedies for all the networks, including "The Facts of Life," (Charlotte Ray), "Too Close For Comfort", (Ted Knight & Nancy Dussault), "My Two Dads," (Paul Reiser), "Everything's Relative," (Jason Alexander & Anne Jackson), "Sweet Surrender," (Dana Delaney & Mark Blum), "The Thorns," (Tony Roberts, Mary Louise Wilson for Mike Nichols), Karen's Song," (Patty Duke), as well as directing for cable and first-run syndication.

His award-winning revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, starring Theodore Bikel & Lainie Kazan, earned him the Best Director of a Musical Award by the Greater Phoenix Theatre Critics. Other theatre directing includes a National Tour of I'M GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD, THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN, THE SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE, LETTICE AND LOVAGE, I DO, I DO!, STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF, THE WEST SIDE STORY, and with Sandy Duncan, THE BELLE OF AMHERST, for the ambitious Commonwealth Theatre Company in Norfolk, VA.

His teaching includes Acting for the Camera for the UCLA Extension, Theatre History for Pepperdine University and Point Park College, Introduction to Acting for the University of Fine Arts, San Francisco, and for twelve years was a member of the permanent acting faculty of Anne Reinking's Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa, FL.

Nancy Dussault in "MY LIFE...Upon the Wicked Stage" plays Feinstein's/54 Below (254 West 54 th Street) on September 27, 2016 @7:00PM. There is a $40.00-$80.00 cover charge and a food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.

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