That's entertainment

Mark Nadler will sing, dance and play his way through a laugh-filled night of fun.

Mark Nadler hits the O'Shaughnessy Center stage in Whitefish on Oct. 29 for a riotously fun evening of comedy, great songs and madcap merriment in Victor Borga-like style.

Nadler, who has appeared at Carnegie Hall, on Broadway and everywhere in between was recently heralded by The New York Times as "a comic spark plug touched with brilliance" and The Village Voice dubbed him "the most prodigiously talented entertainer working in America today!"

His resume includes roles in musical comedies and dramas on Braodway, serious piano gigs with symphony orchestras and a host of appearances in the country's best-known nightclubs. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Nadler starred in and co-wrote the off-Broadway Gershwin revue, "American Rhapsody," which was nominated for a Drama Desk and two Lucille Lortel Awards and received the Manhattan Association Of Cabarets Award for Outstanding Musical Revue.

For his show, "Tschaikovsky (and Other Russians)" Nadler was awarded the 2003 Bistro Award for "Continuing To Raise The Standards Of Cabaret Performance."

He also won the 1994 Bistro Award for outstanding singer/instrumentalist and the 2000 Bistro Award for Outstanding Revue for directing, conceiving and music directing "Hard Candy: The Songs of Carol Hall."

He created and co-stars in "Something Wonderful: Richard Rodgers In Song," which he has been touring with since 2001 and "Come On and Hear: The Love Story of Irving Berlin," which he created and performs with KT Sullivan and for which he received Outstanding Revue awards from the Manhattan Association Of Cabarets.

He has performed at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops Orchestra and has been a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Ottawa Symphony and others.

He has played New York's Town Hall and in almost every significant nightclub in New York City and Los Angeles. These include Four Seasons at Sardi's, The Village Gate, The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, the Cinegrill in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Maxim's and the West Bank Cabaret where he was, at age 19, the house master-of-ceremonies and musical director.

Abroad, Nadler has performed in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Australia.

On Broadway Mark has appeared as "The Fingers On The Keys" in "Dame Edna: The Royal Tour" and Pinky Pickles in "The Sheik of Avenue 'B'."

At Lincoln Center, Mark co-wrote, directed and starred in "The Nose Knows: A Tribute to Jimmy Durante" for the "Reel to Real" series.

Other New York theatrical credits include Nicky in Noel Coward's "The Vortex" and leading roles in productions of Robert Patrick's "Untold Decades" and "To Dinner With Friends."

Favorite regional roles have been Tony Whitcomb, the outrageous hair-dresser in the Ft. Lauderdale and San Francisco companies of "Shear Madness" and the octogenarian piano-ukulele and chimes playing, dancing and singing Miss Mabel in "Radio Gals."

Other credits include Nadler's spot as the miming ring-master of the international Cirque du Monde, and the arranger and coach for Glenn Close's performance of "Bye Bye Blackbird" for the film "Maxie."

Nadler's show at the O'Shaughnessy, a Whitefish Theatre Company production, begins at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for students.

For more about Nadler and other Whitefish Theatre Company events, visit www.whitefishtheatreco.org

"Mark Nadler, who sings dances and plays piano (aggressively and well) is a madly extroverted contemporary vaudevillian whose artistic lineage embraces everyone from Al Jolson(in his ferocious singing) to Tommy Tune (in his goofy long-legged hoofing). He is an entertainer!"

Stephen Holden, The New York Times