Andrea McArdle
Andrea McArdle is a performer every bit as powerful as the legendary Garland. –Indianapolis News
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Andrea McArdle
Andrea started out at nine years old appearing as Wendy Wilkins on the popular daytime drama named, ironically, “Search for Tomorrow.”
At an early age she was thrust into the spotlight not only for her incredible stadium-sized crystal clear voice, but the indomitable spirit she portrayed. Her time as Annie was a launching pad for an incredible career that is still conquering new heights in a business that has been known to easily dispose of young talent. As Annie she became the youngest performer ever to be nominated for a Tony Award as Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She also received the Theater World and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards for the girl with the red hair and big voice. She subsequently conquered London with her portrayal of Orphan Annie in the West End production.
Her appearances on television at this early stage made it clear that Andrea’s talent had much more to offer, and she went on to portray Judy Garland in the NBC telepic Rainbow.
Her performances on the musical stage include: starring in the Jerry Herman musical Jerry’s Girls, alongside Carol Channing and Leslie Uggams. She portrayed the sassy Smoking Car, Ashley, in the original Broadway cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express; Esther, the Judy Garland role, in Meet Me In St. Louis; the offbeat lyric writer Sonia in the Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch musical They’re Playing Our Song; The classic girl next door, Luisa, in The Fantasticks; the actress made good as dictator’s wife, Eva Peron, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita; the tragic figure Fantine in Les Miserables; Margy Frake, in the original Broadway cast of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical State Fair, the good-hearted Nancy in Oliver; the Narrator, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; the beautiful classic leading lady, Belle, in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; the saucy Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret; the gun-toting Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun; and the quintessential stage-mother in Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy; as well as the excessively proper teenage ingénue, Sandy, in Grease.
Andrea appeared on the Johnny Carson Show 3 times and as many as 16 times on the Merv Griffin Show and 15 times on the Mike Douglas Show. Other appearances include the Dinah Shore Show and every morning show across the country; not only as a performer but also as an ambassador for the March of Dimes. Her appearances on Great Performances on PBS include Broadway Plays Washington on Kennedy Center; My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies; Broadway’s Lost Treasures; Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman. Other network television appearances include Welcome Back Kotter as Doris Horshack; Two For Two; Mo & Joe and Annie; as well as Celebrity Jeopardy; Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade; and Turning Point (aka 20/20 Wednesday) Today Show/ Good Morning America. She appeared on the 31st, 35th, 41st and 50th Annual Tony Awards shows.
Andrea has performed in the showrooms of many of the casino hotels in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, and in cabarets such as the renowned Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre in New York, Odetteʹs in New Hope, Pennsylvania and the King Cole Room at the St. Regis Hotel as well as Freddyʹs Supper Club in Manhattan.
Her CD, Andrea McArdle on Broadway, was arranged and produced by her husband, composer Edd Kalehoff, who also collaborated with her on an album of Christmas songs (Andrea McAdle’s Family Christmas) that was released in conjunction with her Family Christmas Show at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Other recordings include My Favorite Broadway Leading Ladies, filmed at Carnegie hall (also on DVD); State Fair Original Cast album; Jerryʹs Girls Original Cast album and Annie Original Cast album.