Andrea Marcovicci: I’ll Be Seeing You…Love Songs of World War II08:16AM / Wednesday, August 05, 2009
 | | Monday, August 17th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the performance are $45 and $35 |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Colonial will present Andrea Marcovicci: I’ll Be Seeing You…Love Songs of World War II on Monday, August 17th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the performance are $45 and $35 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.TheColonialTheatre.org.
Through songs, stories and poetry, Andrea Marcovicci takes the audience on a journey through America’s dramatic era of 1939–1945, when every song became irrevocably intertwined with precious memories. Highlights include “Skylark,” “Sentimental Journey” and “The White Cliffs of Dover.”
Andrea Marcovicci, “the Queen of Cabaret,” has created over twenty-five nightclub acts, sold out Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and appeared at the White House. Her concert work from coast to coast includes appearances with multiple theatres, clubs and symphonies as well the Millennium celebration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As 2008 came to a close, Andrea celebrated both her 22nd season at the legendary Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel with Marcovicci Sings Movies II and her 60th Birthday!
The party continues as she approaches three-score (and one half year) in May 2009 with Andrea Marcovicci’s 60th Birthday Concert at Town Hall in New York. Celebrating Andrea’s contribution to songwriters, past and present, will be three-time Academy award winner, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and Grammy award-winner Julie Gold, along with other noted ASCAP composers Francesca Blumenthal, John Bucchino, Craig Carnelia, Babbie Green, Christine Lavin, and Tom Toce. In addition, Andrea’s mother Helen will be on hand celebrating her 90th Birthday. To commemorate this event Andreasong Recordings, Inc. will release a compilation CD: As Time Goes By: The Best of Andrea Marcovicci.
Commissioned by the Savannah Music Festival Andrea’s latest work is a tribute to lyricist Johnny Mercer in celebration of his centennial. For four seasons Andrea has been a guest Artistic Director at the prestigious Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y in New York where she wrote, directed and starred in Easy to Love, The Lyrics of Cole Porter; Kurt Weill in America (subsequently recorded for CD); Thanks for the Memories: The Lyrics of Leo Robin; and an examination of the ‘standard’ post 1965.
Through her fundraising efforts, Andrea has aided the disenfranchised in locations nationwide. The recipient of several awards and honors, she holds three Lifetime Achievement Awards and two honorary degrees in the arts. In addition, “The Andrea Marcovicci Suite” at the Algonquin Hotel, dedicated in 2006 on her twentieth anniversary at the Oak Room, contains memorabilia of her work in theatre, film, television and on the concert stage. |
