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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 the Royal
Shakespeare Company’s Ian Richardson 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. Recently, Ms. Andreas
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 and my need
to be consumed in a character increased I allowed myself to
collaborate with composer Martin Silvestri and writer Joel Higgins
which led 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.”
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 45 piece orchestra; and most recently The
Carlyle Set, a sophisticated set of contemporary standards
recorded with a quartet of New York's most outstanding musicians,
were both selected on USA Todays’ 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”.
“So it’s time to assume another character.
It’s a blessing when your life is directly reflected in
your art, but that seems to be just exactly what's happening to
me. On the heels of my son’s moving into his own life in his own
group home, I was offered the role of Margaret Johnson in the
National Tour of "The Light in the Piazza".
In addressing Margaret's dilemma with her daughter Clara, I
will now have a chance to explore day after day this profound
shift in my life in this rare opportunity when all my worlds
meet."
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