“Sanders remains a cabaret star of the highest rank, she connects with her audience like few others who attempt to entertain. Old time razzle-dazzle entertainment with a vaudevillian’s panache.” – John Hoglund, Theatrescenes.com
Marta Sanders
2022 MAC Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Or…“Whatever Happened To That Nice Quaker Girl?”
Laurie Beechman Theater at The West Bank Café
April 13th & 15th, 2022 at 7:00pm
Director & Musical Director Mark Nadler
Powerhouse Vocalist and Entertainer, Marta Sanders (Broadway’s Best Little Whorehouse) has set the standard for cabaret in New York City since the 70’s is one of the original winners of The MAC “Outstanding Female Vocalist” Award and Bistro Award for “Consummate Cabaret Artistry.” Marta Sanders steps back into the spotlight and onto the cabaret stage with her new one-woman cabaret show: “LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT” and answers the burning question: “Whatever Happened To That Nice Quaker Girl?”for two nights only!
Sanders is the recipient of this year’s Manhattan Association of Cabaret & Clubs 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, alongside fellow artist Chita Rivera, and answers the burning question, “Whatever Happened To That Nice Quaker Girl?” and sets the record straight with vibrant vocals, dynamic storytelling, and demonstrates her mastery of the American nightclub style with a bold and brassy personality! Sanders is joined onstage by Director, Musical Director and Friend Extraordinaire, Mark Nadler (www.marknadler.com) This is an evening not to be missed! Buy your tickets now at www.westbankcafe.com
ABOUT MARTA SANDERS
With a career spanning decades, Marta Sanders continues to draw on her mastery of the American nightclub style with her bold and brassy personality. After arriving in Manhattan, her career led her to the New York cabaret circuit and making her Broadway Debut in the original company of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Marta Sanders set the standard for cabaret in New York City and is one of the original winners of Bistro and MAC Award “Outstanding Female Vocalist” and recently Bistro Award for “Consummate Cabaret Artistry.”
Marta Sanders has performed in New York’s prestigious venues- Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, Carnegie Hall. New York Nightclubs: Feinstein’s/54 Below, Laurie Beechman and Birdland. She has performed in many of the historic Manhattan showrooms in their heyday- Rainbow & Stars, Upstairs at Greene Street, Maxim’s, Reno Sweeney’s, Les Mouches, The Ballroom, Eighty Eights, Freddie’s Supper Club, Onstage and Metropolitan Room.
Marta continues to travel, performing in nightclubs and abroad with her one-woman cabaret shows. Her first CD “Corazon del Alma,” sumptuously orchestrated compilation of standard Latin ballads sung in Spanish and “Panache” includes original comedy songs by John McMahon, lyricist Jay Jeffries and was named one of 2012’s top ten CDs, alongside Stacey Sullivan and Barbara Cook.
“Marta Sanders, a consummate New York cabaret artist since the ’70s, whose artistry has grown so thrillingly that her performances are viewed as master classes in the art of song interpretation, concluded the evening and the 2018 Convention with a well-deserved standing ovation for “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?” and proved she still has everything and more.” ThaeaterPizazz.com
PRAISE FOR MARTA SANDERS
“Marta Sanders, a consummate New York cabaret artist since the ’70s, whose artistry has grown so thrillingly that her performances are viewed as master classes in the art of song interpretation, concluded the evening and the 2018 Convention with a well-deserved standing ovation for “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?” and proved she still has everything and more.” – Myra Chanin, ThaeaterPizazz.com
“Sanders remains a cabaret star of the highest rank… connects with her audience like few others who attempt to entertain.” “Old time razzle-dazzle entertainment with a vaudevillian’s panache.” – John Hoglund, Theatrescenes.com
“MAC and Bistro Award winner Marta Sanders‘ powerhouse rendition of “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have” was a very fitting close for the evening’s festivities— this woman can belt!”- Eugene Ebner, BroadwayWorld.com
“Every time you see her you have a good time!” – Scott Siegel, Theatrescenes.com
“Everything she does in her show is wonderful!” – Lynda Sturner, Cabaret Scenes
“Marta Sanders is a good-time girl: Whenever she performs, the audience has a good time. Bold and brassy, she poached the crowd with her very first numbers, a combination of tunes from Gypsy. Then she scrambled their expectations with her comic patter, before frying them with her ability to make them laugh themselves silly with a number like ‘Gristedes’ and then move them to tears with a poignant ‘Wonderful World’.” -Theatermania.com
PRODUCTION TEAM
Mark Nadler: (Music Director/Director) Internationally acclaimed singer, pianist, tap-dancer and comedian. He is the recipient of the 2015 Broadway World Editor’s Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year. His recent off-Broadway hit, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, has been honored with the 2013 Nightlife Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and two Broadway World Awards. Read more here at www.MarkNadler.com.
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