Tammy Bruce: Marcovicci at the Gardenia in Los Angeles

Marcovicci at the Gardenia in Los Angeles

Andrea Marcovicci

**Bumped up. UPDATE: Daryl Miller at the Los Angeles Times has a great review of Andrea's show. Tonight is the last night of this run. The show sells out so if you want to have dinner as well, call 323-467-7444 for a rez. It's also fun just to show up (no later than 8:30pm would be smart) and hang out in the bar area which, if I don't have a gang with me, is what I enjoy doing.**

Tonight through Saturday at 9pm, if you're in the Los Angeles area, you're in for a special treat--Andrea Marcovicci opens at the Gardenia where she began her cabaret career 22 years ago. Her show for this run, "Just Love-By Request," is a big treat. Here's a bit of the rave review it received when performed at the historic Oak Room at the Algonquin in New York:

To attend an Andrea Marcovicci cabaret performance is to visit Andrealand, a grown-up theme park devoted entirely to nostalgic dreams of romance and music. Guests are greeted by the singer, as radiant as a storybook princess, who leads them on a personal guided tour.

Over here is the "Top Hat" Pavilion, devoted to the music and iconography of Fred Astaire, and over there the moonlit "Way You Look Tonight" Boathouse, where Jerome Kern songs play 24 hours a day. Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and the Gershwins have their private reserves, and the "I'll Be Seeing You" Library houses the love songs of World War II. There is even a literary wing showcasing the writings of Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The newest feature of Andrealand, unveiled this week at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, is the Time Stands Still Room, a warm, firelit haven in which Ms. Marcovicci presides over a nostalgic, family style musicale where the song list changes nightly. Requests submitted by guests are put into a top hat passed around by Ms. Marcovicci. She selects songs from it at random, and the program, titled "Just Love ... by Request," consists of a half-and-half mixture of preset choices and requests...

As always, Ms. Marcovicci's interpreting song lyrics in a quirky, passionate speech-song suggests the grown-up incarnation of that special teacher, baby sitter or parent from your childhood whose reading aloud conveyed an irresistible enthusiasm.

For more information or to make reservations, call the Gardenia Supper Club at 323-467-7444.

Posted by Tammy · March 24, 2007 11:50 AM · Permalink
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Gee, music you can actually sit back and listen to over dinner! What a novel idea! Thought that music went out with Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen and the Hit Parade! Sadly, LA ain't "just down the road". Ratz. Sounds like a WONDERFUL show. Yep, that was a different era and a different America...

Posted by: Floyd R. Turbo at March 24, 2007 04:03 PM

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