Andrea Marcovicci
My friend Andrea has a new show tonight (Saturday) as well as next week, March 13-16 in Los Angeles at The Gardenia . This show is selling out, but you still may be able to get in this evening for drinks and the show. I’m guessing dinner may already be sold out. If you miss it tonight, you can make plans for the added dates next week. Here’s the coverage from the Los Angeles Times. To make reservations, contact The Gardenia at 323-467-7444.
The fundamental things still apply to Andrea Marcovicci
Put down that martini and whip out your notebook: Cabaret singer Andrea Marcovicci has just taken the stage and there might be a pop quiz on the Great American Songbook.
“How many of you here know where the song ‘As Time Goes By’ originally comes from?” she’ll ask an unwary audience, as hands shoot up. “Wrong! It’s not from ‘Casablanca.’ It’s from ‘Everybody’s Welcome,’ a 1931 Broadway show you’ve never heard of!”
And how about the plot thread linking virtually every movie that Fred Astaire made? “He falls in love at first sight in all of them,” the singer tells another audience, brandishing film posters, yellowed newspaper clippings and other memorabilia to prove her point…
The work goes beyond her annual gigs at the Gardenia, the Oak Room at New York’s Algonquin Hotel, San Francisco’s Plush Room and other high-profile nightclubs. Marcovicci, a longtime Studio City resident, has mentored several young singers who have adopted her “history and singing” approach. She’s also taught master classes in cabaret in several U.S. cities and has made 17 recordings.
She casts an intense dramatic spell in live sets, drawing on her background as a stage, television and movie actress (Marcovicci starred opposite Woody Allen in “The Front,” a 1976 film about blacklisting). But her painstaking research into the history of pop songs can also lead to moments of wicked onstage humor.
