This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am discussing Legacy & Lessons Learned.

To celebrate Karen Mason's upcoming 70th Birthday (March 30), the acclaimed Broadway Actress & Cabaret Star returns to my podcast to discuss Lessons Learned.

In Part 2 of this interview, Karen Mason is once again Baring It All with Call Me Adam, but this time around she talks about:

• The vocal issues she experienced in the '80s & '90s
• Surviving Rebecca, one of Broadway's BIGGEST musical theatre scandals
• Starring in a HIT Broadway show & not having her contract renewed
• So much more

Click Here to listen to Part 1 of Karen Mason's interview where we talk about Karen's Broadway & Cabaret Legacy.

More Karen Mason Interviews:

2026 (Read Here): Celebrating Life at 75 with Broadway Baby
2024 (Read Here): Celebrating The Music of Kander & Ebb
2015 (Read Here): Coming Home with Mason at Mama's
2011 (Read Here): Ruling Broadway as The Queen of Hearts in Wonderland

Tune into Mason's Makin' Music every Thursday at 5pm on Karen's Facebook Page

Special Thanks:

• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin

• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell

• Original Edit by Drew Kaufman (2021)

• Re-edited by Adam Rothenberg (2026)

• Outro Music Underscore by CueTique

More on Karen Mason:

Karen Mason was recently seen as “Madame Giry” in the North American premier of Love Never Dies — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s epic sequel to the Phantom of the Opera.

On Broadway, Karen garnered rave reviews starring in Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland. She received a 2002 Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress for being the original “Tanya” in Abba’s Mamma Mia!, Her other leading roles include "Norma Desmond" in Sunset Boulevard, which she performed to critical acclaim on Broadway & in Los Angeles for three years; "Velma von Tussel" in the final Broadway company of Hairspray; “monotony” singer, "Mazeppa" in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; 'Rosalie" in Carnival (another Drama Desk nomination); plus featured roles in Broadway’s Torch Song Trilogy; & Play Me a Country Song.

Karen won the Outer Critics Circle award for her performance in And the World Goes ‘Round, & starred Off-Broadway in her own show Karen Mason Sings Broadway, Beatles and Brian.

Karen has headlined Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Feinstein’s at the Regency, Rainbow & Stars, the Algonquin; The Cinegrill & UCLA/ASCAP Concert Series in Los Angeles; The Plush Room in San Francisco; & Davenport’s in Chicago.

She has shared concert stages with such luminaries as Michael Feinstein, Jerry Herman, Chita Rivera, Luciano Pavarotti, Rosemary Clooney, Liza Minnelli, John Kander & Fred Ebb, amongst others.

Her highly acclaimed recordings include her newest single, "It’s About Time," written by Paul Rolnick & Shelly Markham; her 2009 Mac award-winning Right Here/Right Now, 2005’s The Sweetest of Nights, the Mac award-winning When The Sun Comes Out, as well as three other CD’s: Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!, recorded live at the West Bank Café; Better Days, featuring songs by her longtime composer/arranger, Brian Lasser (including the 1998 Emmy award-winning song “Hold Me“); & Not So Simply Broadway.

Karen has been featured on the movie soundtrack to Jeffrey (Varese Sarabande) & such theatrical recordings as Wonderland, And the World Roes 'Round (RCA Victor), The Child In Me, Vol. 1 (Harbinger Records), Lost In Boston ll (Varese Sarabande), & the studio cast recording of Wonderful Town (Jay Records),

Her television appearances include the hit dramas ED and Law & Order: SVU while her film credits include Sleeping Dogs Lie & A Chorus Line.