Andrea Marcovicci

Andrea Marcovicci, The Queen Of Cabaret, “torch singer, spellbinder, heart-breaker” (People) was hailed as the “most Sinatra-like” of the new generation of cabaret performers by Life Magazine. She “has the capacity to caress a song with a warming embrace…Marcovicci steals the heart …the epitome of elegance and showbiz savvy,” declared Variety while Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, “Andrea Marcovicci has an incandescent enthusiasm and a masterly balance between poignancy and wit”.

Thus far in 2007, I’ll Be Seeing You... Love Songs of WWII was presented with Chamber Orchestra in two Acts and wowed a sold-out crowd at New York’s Town Hall. Andrea helped to launch Jeff Harnar’s American Songbook in London series and returned to the 92nd Street Y Lyrics & Lyricists for the third straight year as guest Artistic Director with her new show Thanks for the Memories: The Lyrics of Leo Robin. In addition, her Andreasong label released the cast album for last year’s show, Kurt Weill in America, complete with a 48-page color booklet with extensive liner notes. For her spring engagement at the Oak Room Andrea brought a new version of just love… By Request and enjoyed a triumphant return to Le Chat Noir in New Orleans with Andrea Sings Astaire. For her latest season at the Plush Room in San Francisco, Andrea debuted the world premiere of Marcovicci Sings Rodgers & Hart and is pleased to return to Caramoor with Andrea Sings Astaire.

Andrea continues to entertain sold-out audiences from coast to coast whenever touring her numerous critically acclaimed shows. This past fall she celebrated her 20th Anniversary at the legendary Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel and in recognition of her contribution to the art of cabaret was honored by the Hotel with a suite, filled with memorabilia, and dedicated in her name. Andrea was excited to participate in a reading of The Misalliance for Project Shaw at the Player’s Club in New York which included such illustrious actors as Brian Murray, Paxton Whitehead and Sally Ann Howes. In December, Andrea hosted and created, (along with musical director, Shelly Markham), My Christmas Song For You - a benefit for Symphony Space – with a cast including Barbara Brussell, Natalie Douglas, and Jeff Harnar. Andrea’s holiday CD bears the same name and is available on-line at www.marcovicci.com and CDBaby.com.

2006 also marked Andrea’s 20th Anniversary season at The Plush Room in San Francisco, a celebration which began in 2005 at the Gardenia in Hollywood. In March Andrea stunned a sold-out benefit crowd at UCLA for the Academy for Jewish Religion with selections from I Am Anne Frank. Last summer Andrea debuted at Steppenwolf in Chicago with I’ll Be Seeing You... Love Songs of WWII. That show was a recreation of her most requested show and has played throughout the country and in Normandy in recognition of the original ‘Band of Brothers’ who were immortalized by the HBO series. In November of 2005 Andrea created, performed and directed Kurt Weill in America with a cast of six at the prestigious Lyrics And Lyricists Series at the 92nd Street Y. That concert has been recorded and was released in April of 2007.

Ms. Marcovicci has seventeen CDs to her credit. Her last five releases debuted on her own recording label, Andreasong. The latest solo release, My Christmas Song for You was out just in time for the 2006 Holiday season.

An actress and singer, Andrea began on the daytime television series Love Is A Many Splendored Thing. She debuted on Broadway in Ambassador, the musical adaptation of the novel by Henry James, starring Howard Keel and last appeared on the Great White Way in Frank D. Gilroy’s play Any Given Day with Sada Thompson. Her numerous appearances off-Broadway include The Wedding of Iphigenia, Variety Obit, The Seagull, and as Ophelia to Sam Waterston’s Hamlet for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park. Regionally, she received rave reviews for the leading roles of the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco productions of St. Joan, Burn This, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In Los Angeles, she starred opposite Anthony Newley in Chaplin, portraying all the legendary actor’s wives and starred in the Philadelphia revival of Lady in the Dark at the Prince Music Theatre. Her film credits include: The Front (nominated for a Golden Globe Award) with Woody Allen, The Hand with Sir Michael Caine, The Stuff with Michael Moriarty, Spacehunter with Peter Strauss, The Canterville Ghost with Sir John Gielgud, Henry Jaglom’s Someone To Love (featuring Orson Welles in his last film appearance), and Jack the Bear, as Danny DeVito’s wife. Her many television appearances include Arli$$ for HBO, Cybill, Taxi, Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues, and Trapper John, M.D., among others and numerous made-for-television movies. Her last television guest appearance was in Strong Medicine on the Lifetime network. She recently provided commentary for the DVD release of the movie Someone to Love and her latest foray into film is the Independent feature, Irene in Time, directed by long-time friend, Henry Jaglom and slated to be released next year.

Andrea was most honored to usher in the Millennium with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her concert work includes appearances with the San Francisco Pops, Florida Philharmonic, and Oregon and Ft. Worth Symphonies among others. Her 1993 Carnegie Hall solo debut, with the American Symphony Orchestra, was to a sold-out audience. Prior to that, Carnegie Hall commissioned December Songs specifically created for Andrea by Maury Yeston. The concert was then reconceived as a ballet by Lynn Taylor Corbett and premiered with Andrea at The Carolina Ballet in 2002. Lincoln Center commissioned both her Noel Coward show and her Kurt Weill in America. The latter is the genesis of her later Lyrics & Lyricists show. In April of 2005 Andrea played to sold-out houses at the esteemed LICEU Opera House in Barcelona. Andrea’s concert version of I Am Anne Frank (Lyrics: Enid Futterman / Music: Michael Cohen) most recently performed at UCLA, originally debuted in Los Angeles and was then recorded. Subsequently, it was performed at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center with Stephen Bogardus and Town Hall in New York with the addition of a new introduction penned by Futterman, and read by a variety of celebrities, giving the work a timeless quality. In the spring of 2004 Andrea served as Director and Artistic Director for Easy to Love, The Lyrics of Cole Porter for Lyrics and Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y. She returned the following year with Kurt Weill in America. In the fall of 2003, and again in 2004, she directed the Cabaret Concert for Young Audiences at the New York Cabaret Convention.

Enjoying the intimate art of cabaret performance, Andrea has appeared at numerous prestigious nightclubs throughout the country including the famed Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, The Gardenia and The Cinegrill in Los Angles, The Plush Room in San Francisco, The Colony in Palm Beach, FL., Le Chat Noir in New Orleans, and many others. Her London cabaret debut in 1994 sold out a one-month engagement at the Music Room at Pizza on the Park. Sheridan Morley, theater critic of The Spectator and The International Herald-Tribune, called her “the greatest cabaret star of her generation.” Peter Hepple in The Stage and Television Today wrote, “Marcovicci cast her spell, with a voice of supreme tenderness, much rangier than at first appeared, with a thrillingly controlled vibrato, marvelous diction and phrasing that can only come from a skilled actress.”

In addition to clubs, Andrea Marcovicci has performed at the White House and brought the intimacy of the small cabaret to numerous theatres and concert halls across the country including: the Tilles Center and the famed John Drew Theatre, of Long Island; NJPAC in New Jersey; the Grandel in St. Louis; the Napa Valley Opera House, CA; the Lyric Theatre in Florida; Bass Hall Performing Arts Center in Ft. Worth, and many others. Also known for her remarkable hosting abilities, Andrea has been at the helm of a plethora of events throughout the country including the ASCAP Songwriter’s Evening at the Chicago Humanities Festival and twice the New York Nightlife Awards. She was also a guest speaker (along with the President of the Netherlands) at the New York Film Society’s tribute to Sir Michael Caine at Lincoln Center.

In recent years Andrea has taught Master Classes on the art of cabaret in several cities. She is proud to return for her fourth year this August as a Master teacher at the Perry-Mansfield School in Steamboat Springs, CO.

Her numerous fundraising efforts have produced everything from building additions to aiding the disenfranchised. She has worked tirelessly for a variety of causes. Just a few of these charitable events include helping underprivileged children, (Reach the World, Variety Arts Telethon, The Youth League), feeding and providing medical care for the homeless and those suffering with AIDS, (MHRA, The Broward Partnership for the Homeless), protecting the environment, (Tree People), and preserving arts organizations and educational opportunities (San Francisco Performing Arts Library, Music Conservatory of Westchester, The Dallas Children’s Theatre.) She is the recipient of several awards and honors including three Lifetime Achievement Awards - honored so by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, the Licia Albanese - Puccini Foundation, and by a Bob Harrington Backstage Bistro Award. In recognition of her accomplishments in the arts, Andrea has received honorary degrees from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and the Memphis College of Art. In addition, “The Andrea Marcovicci Suite” at the Algonquin Hotel, dedicated in 2006 on her twentieth anniversary at the Oak Room, contains memorabilia of her work on stage, screen and live performance.