Singer Karen Mason, of Broadway's Sunset Boulevard, inaugurated a new Manhattan cabaret spot, Arci's Place, Nov. 3, but on Nov. 27 she says goodbye.
Tickets are still available for a 9 PM Thanksgiving performance and prix fixe meal, and for shows Nov. 26-27. Tickets are tight, however.
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Barry Kleinbort directs and Christopher Denny musical directs Mason's interpretations of songs by the Gershwins, Sondheim, Bernstein, Kander & Ebb, Kleinbort, Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner, Brian Lasser, Paul Rolnick, Larry Grossman & Hal Hackady, and others.
Performances play Wednesday to Saturday through Nov. 27 at restaurateur John Miller's Italian-menu Arci's Place, 450 Park Avenue South (between 30th and 31st streets). Over the 1999 Labor Day weekend, part of Arci's Place was soundproofed and partitioned to create a new 80-seat cabaret room.
Miller hopes Mason (Sunset Boulevard, And the World Goes 'Round) will be the first of many marquee-name artists to perform at the spot. Matt Berman, a MAC Award winner, designed the new lighting and sound system.
Cabaret admission is $25 cover and a $15 minimum. The Mason gig coincides with the release of her new CD, "Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!," recorded in 1998.
For Arci's Place information, call (212) 532-4370.
-- By Kenneth Jones