CHRISTINE ANDREAS SINGS "THE CARLYLE SET" AT THE CAFE CARLYLE

Christine Andreas will present a program aptly titled "The Carlyle Set" based on her latest recording of the same name on Fynsworth Alley at THE CAFE CARLYLE (35 East 76th Street, NYC - 1-212-744-1600 - http://www.thecarlyle.com/cal.cfm). Performances will continue through February 28th. Ms. Andreas will be joined by Lee Musiker on piano, Lou Marini on reeds, Ray Marchica on drums and Dick Sarpola on bass. Her eclectic program will include such familiar standards as "What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life," "Alfie" and "In A Sentimental Mood," as well as contemporary works by Mary Chapin Carpenter ("What If We Went To Italy") and Dave Frishberg ("Listen Here"). The performance schedule is: Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:45 pm with late shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:45 pm. There is a $50 cover charge with no minimum required.

Best known for her work on the Broadway stage, Christine 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, garnering the Theatre World Award. Ms. Andreas received two Tony nominations for her work as Laurey in Oklahoma! at the Palace Theatre and as Frankie Frayne in On Your Toes directed by the legendary George Abbott. Other Broadway credits include Words and Music with the late 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 Scarlet Pimpernel opposite Douglas Sills and Terrence Mann. In 2002 Ms. Andreas received rapturous notices for her portrayal of Vera Simpson in the Prince Music Theater's production of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey in Philadelphia. Philadelphia rewarded her performance with a 2003 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.

Television credits include: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Cosby Show, PBS' Musical Comedy Tonite, the evil shrink Taylor Benson on Another World, and as Ava Gardner in Fox's mini-series, Mia, Child of Hollywood. Regionally, she has embraced Shakespeare to Sondheim from Alaska to Washington, D.C. Ms. Andreas has appeared in concert with the Richmond Symphony with Charles Strouse, the Tulsa Symphony with Peter Nero and the Detroit Symphony. Last spring she opened the season at the renowned Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY and appeared in November 2003 at the Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs, California.

Collaboration with composer Martin Silvestri led to Andreas' West End debut starring in his musical The Fields of Ambrosia at the Aldwych Theatre in London followed by concerts in London, Paris, Rome and The White House, culminating in the release of her CD Love Is Good. Here's To The Ladies, their second CD collaboration, recorded in London with a 45-piece orchestra, was released last October on PS Classics and was selected by USA Today as one of the "Top 10 CDs of 2002." On January 31, 2003 USA Today once again honored Ms. Andreas by choosing her latest recording, The Carlyle Set, a sophisticated new CD of contemporary standards recorded with a quartet of New York's most outstanding musicians, as one of the "Top 10 CD's of 2003."

For more information please visit http://www.christineandreas.com/.

 

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