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Ms. Andreas is back in
New York
after receiving nation-wide raves starring as Margaret Johnson in
the 55 week national tour of the Tony Award winning musical, THE
LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
Best known for her work on the Broadway stage,
Ms. Andreas burst onto the
New York
theatre scene starring as Eliza Doolittle in the 20th Anniversary
production of MY FAIR LADY opposite Ian Richardson of the
Royal Shakespeare Company and garnering the Theatre World Award.
As revivals gained popularity, Ms. Andreas received two Tony
nominations re-creating Laurey in
OKLAHOMA
! working with Billy Hammerstein and Agnes DeMilles, and as
Frankie Frayne in ON YOUR TOES directed by the legendary
George Abbott. Other
Broadway credits include WORDS AND MUSIC with Sammy Cahn,
Nancy
in
ANGEL STREET
with Dina Merrill, Rebecca in RAGS, the short-lived
Alice
in the short-lived LEGS DIAMOND with the late, great and
wonderful Peter Allen, and the Broadway bound and derailed Erte
production of STARDUST.
Ms. Andreas created the role of
Marguerite St
. Just on Broadway in the original production of THE SCARLET
PIMPERNEL opposite Douglas Sills and Terrence Mann. She
received rapturous notices for her portrayal of Vera Simpson in
the Prince Music Theater’s production of Rogers and Hart’s PAL
JOEY in
Philadelphia
.
Philadelphia
rewarded her performance with a Barrymore Award for Best Actress
in a Musical and a sold-out three-week engagement of her one-woman
show, HERE’S TO THE LADIES…
“With the birth of my son, Mac, I took a
pivotal detour. When he was diagnosed with pervasive developmental
disabilities, I moved into concert work so that I could continue
to sing and give him the attention he needed.
And in concert, without a character, I realized I had
stepped into a rich new musical world. As Mac grew older, the theatre beckoned and I
allowed myself to collaborate with composer Martin Silvestri and
writer Joel Higgins leading to my West End debut starring in their
musical THE FIELDS OF AMBROSIA at the Aldwych Theatre in
London followed by concerts with Marty in London, Paris, Rome,
Australia and The White House.”
She has sung in concert in Carnegie Hall, Avery
Fisher Hall, Town Hall, the Kennedy Center Jazz Festival and the
Caramoor Festival to name a few.
Symphonic work includes the Boston Philharmonic with Ben
Zander, the Tulsa Symphony with Peter Nero, the Detroit Symphony ,
the Richmond Symphony with Charles Strouse and the Palm Beach Pops
with Bob Lapin.
Engagements in New York at the CAFÉ
CARLYLE and the ALGONQUIN’S
OAK ROOM prompted the New York Times to extol:
“The Carlyle has selected the most obvious candidate from
the next generation of Broadway sopranos”…”She delicately
kills with the sheer beauty of her voice”…”She finds a blend
of lyricism and sweet sensuality that only the finest Broadway
voices can conjure.” Liz
Smith was moved to write: “Christine Andreas is everything
anyone who loves romantic pop music could want - simply sine qua
non.” Her CARNEGIE
HALL debut was hailed as ‘brilliant’, ‘delicious’ and
‘sexy’ in Variety.
The natural next step was to capture her music
on CD. So once again
in collaboration with Silvestri, a Grammy nominated producer, they
released LOVE IS GOOD.
HERE’S TO THE LADIES, their second CD
collaboration and a tribute to the great ladies of the theatre,
recorded in
London
with a 50 piece orchestra; and THE CARLYLE SET, a
sophisticated set of contemporary standards recorded with a
quartet of
New York
's most outstanding musicians.
Both CD’s were selected on
USA
Today’s’ top 10 list...
After the release of the CD she returned to The Café
Carlyle in
New York
for an encore performance and repeated it once again at the
Catalina Grill in
Los Angeles
. The LA Times
called her “a mesmerizing musical presence”.
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