They Love the Nightlife

Among the other award winners, presenters, and special guest performers: Allan Harris, who was chosen Outstanding Male Jazz Vocalist by the judges…

…Jim Caruso, with Billy Stritch at the piano (Caruso won in the Unique Cabaret Performance category)…

…Jeanne MacDonald, named Outstanding Cabaret Female Vocalist…

…guest performer Lea DeLaria, who sang a controversial “stalker” version of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”…

…Demetri Martin, who won a Nightlife Award for his Unique Comedy Performance (and, believe us, “unique” is an understatement)…

…guest vocalist Christine Andreas, whose thrilling, bilingual rendition of “Storybook” from The Scarlet Pimpernel was a showstopper…

…Mark Nadler and KT Sullivan, who earned a Nightlife Award for their hit cabaret show honoring the life and work of Irving Berlin…

…The Scarlet Pimpernel himself, Douglas Sills, who sang “She Was There” from that show as a tribute to his mentor Margaret Whiting, winner of the Nightlife Hall of Fame Award…

…the amazing Ms. Whiting, who gave the equivalent of a master class in performance with her rendition of “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”…

…Maureen McGovern (Outstanding Cabaret Female Vocalist in a Major Engagement), whose phenomenal voice and interpretive ability made her performance of the David Shire-Alan & Marilyn Bergman song “The Promise” one of the highlights of the evening…

…Legend of Comedy award winner Alan King, who slayed the audience with his routine…

…Andrea Marcovicci, the evening’s charming hostess, here seen getting a leg up on presenter John Selya (literally)…

…guest star Ute Lemper, who sang Jacques Brel’s “Amsterdam”…

…and Legend of Cabaret Award winner Betty Buckley, who — in collaboration with her co-winner, the great jazz pianist Kenny Werner — offered a one-of-a-kind, free-form rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns.” For more on the 2004 Nightlife Awards, check out The Siegel Column on Friday, January 16.