FEBRUARY 8, 2026 @ 2PM

All proceeds benefit Music Theatre of CT and its programming.

Directed by Barry Kleinbort
Music Direction by Christopher Denny

Performance at MUSIC THEATRE OF CONNECTICUT
509 Westport Avenue (Route 1) in Norwalk
(Click here for directions)

About the Show

Featuring fan favorites like ALL THAT JAZZ, A WHOLE NEW WORLD, DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FREND, BROADWAY BABY, FOR GOOD, and many more!

After her SOLD-OUT SHOWS last year in New York, Chicago and Puerto Vallarta, and on the heels of winning another Award in NY, Broadway, Concert, Recording Artist Karen Mason brings a celebration of her favorite music to MTC!

Sassy, brassy, and tinged with confessional monologues, and songs from some of her favorite writers, Karen will share her love of music, and her love of storytelling.

Come on! Isn’t it a good time to leave the craziness outside? You know you want to! So....see you there! This Broadway Baby won’t disappoint!

TICKETS
Standard: $70 / Senior: $60
Not including fees.

About the Team

KAREN MASON.  Mason played Mrs. Marsh on Ryan Murphy’s “HALSTON” on Netflix.  Seen as “Madame Giry” in the North American Premier of LOVE NEVER DIES (Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera). On Broadway, starred as The  Queen of Hearts in “Wonderland,” & originated the role of Tanya in “Mamma Mia!”(2002 Drama Desk nomination as Best Actress). Also, Norma Desmond in ALW’s “Sunset   Boulevard,” on Broadway
and Los Angeles; Velma von Tussel, (Broadway company of “Hairspray”); “Monotony” singer, Mazeppa (“Jerome Robbins’ Broadway”). On tour and regional, she starred in Chasing Rainbows (The PaperMill Playhouse) A Christmas Story as Miss Shields; White Christmas, (St. Louis Muni Opera); Gypsy (Sundance Theatre & Muni); Company (Huntington Theatre). Off-Broadway, she won the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in “And The World Goes ‘Round”. She is a 14-time MAC Award winner, and was the recipient of the 2019 MAC Lifetime Achievement Award. And 3 Bistro Awards. Her 9 albums include her most recent Award Winning Album, Karen Mason And All That Jazz! ;  It’s About Time includes the single, “It’s About Time,” written by Paul Rolnick and Shelly Markham; Let The Music Play; Right Here/ Right Now, The Sweetest of Nights, When The Sun Comes Out, Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!, Better Days (featuring the 1998 Emmy Award-winning song “Hold Me”); and Not So Simply Broadway. Also, Wonderland (original cast); Jeffrey; Wonderful Town & the cast album of And The World Goes Round .     www.karenmason.com 

Barry Kleinbort (Director) has earned the prestigious Edward Kleban Foundation Award for Lyric Writing, two Gilman-Gonzalez Musical Theatre Awards, the Second Stage Musicals Writers Award, the Jamie deRoy ASCAP award, two Back Stage Bistro awards and ten MAC awards for his directorial and songwriting efforts. Among his many projects, he wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Was (music by Joseph Thalken) which was the inaugural production of the American Musical Theater Project in Chicago and is now being readied for Off-Broadway. He provided scripts for eight PBS TV specials and was artistic consultant for Cathouse: The Musical for HBO. His newest musical 13 Things about Ed Carpolotti, starring Penny Fuller, had a successful Off Broadway run. Mr. Kleinbort has directed and/or written material for Brent Barrett, Petula Clark, Marvin Hamlisch, Kaye Ballard, Regis Philbin, Tony Roberts, Anita Gillette, Sylvia McNair, Heather MacRae and many others. An acclaimed revue of his theatre songs Big City Rhythm is available on Harbinger Records.

Christopher Denny (Music Director) has served as musical director, arranger and pianist for such theater, cabaret and opera luminaries as Julie Wilson, Brent Barrett, David Campbell, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Loudon, Judy Kaye, Steven Brinberg and Rodney Gilfry, earning 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.