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Andrea Marcovicci, “the Callas of Cabaret” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), “torch singer, spellbinder, heartbreaker” (People) was hailed as the “most Sinatra-like” of the new generation of cabaret performers by Life. “The most throbbingly irresistible voice in cabaret” enthused New York magazine, while Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, “Andrea Marcovicci has an incandescent enthusiasm and a masterly balance between poignancy and wit.”
In 2000, cabaret legend Andrea Marcovicci continued to entertain audiences throughout this country as Special Guest Artist with the Florida Philharmonic, the Oregon and Ft. Worth Symphonies and a Millennium Concert at the Caramoor Festival. She worked with famed choreographer, Lynne Taylor Corbett on a beautiful new project singing with the Carolina Ballet, which will tour in 2002. Lincoln Center commissioned her Kurt Weill in America concert which she will reprise for her 13th season at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.
In 1999, Ms. Marcovicci christened the new Prince Music Theatre in Philadelphia where she will return in 2001 to star in Lady in the Dark. She also created a new concert about Shakespeare for New York’s Theatre for a New Audience and played Daisy Gamble in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever in San Francisco, garnering the best reviews of her career. She performed with the San Jose Symphony and was honored to be chosen by the Chicago Symphony for their Millennium Celebration. And she enjoyed her 12th sold-out season at New York’s Algonquin Hotel debuting her latest show, Our Songs: 1965–1985.
Andrea Marcovicci began her career in the entertainment world as an actress on the daytime television series Love is a Many Splendored Thing. She made her Broadway debut with Howard Keel in Ambassador, the musical adaptation of the novel by Henry James. She also appeared off-Broadway in The Wedding of Iphigenia, Variety Obit and The Seagull. She starred opposite Anthony Newley in Chaplin, portraying all of the legendary actor’s wives and performed Ophelia to Sam Waterston’s Hamlet for Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park. Ms. Marcovicci received rave reviews for her performances in the leading roles of the American Conservatory Theater productions of St. Joan (1989), Burn This (1990) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1991), breaking every existing attendance record for A.C.T. She also appeared as Carmen in Frank D. Gilroy’s play Any Given Day, which had its world premiere at the Longacre Theater in 1993. In 1998, she starred in the Reprise! production of Finian’s Rainbow in Los Angeles.
Her film credits include The Front (in which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award) with Woody Allen, The Hand with Michael Caine, The Stuff with Michael Moriarty, Spacehunter with Peter Strauss, The Canterville Ghost with Sir John Gielgud, Henry Jaglom’s Someone to Love (featuring Orson Welles in his last film performance), and Jack the Bear, as Danny Devito’s wife. On television she has appeared on Cybil, Taxi, Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues and Trapper John, M.D., as well as in a host of made-for television movies.
Ms. Marcovicci records for Cabaret Records and has a number of CDs to her credit including I’ll Be Seeing You--Love Songs of World War II; Just Kern; December Songs; Always, Irving Berlin; What is Love? and Marcovicci Sings Movies. On October 28, 1996 she debuted the song cycle I Am Anne Frank at Lincoln Center with members of the American Symphony Orchestra. Written by Enid Futterman and Michael Cohen, this remarkable work was recorded by the Anne Frank Center and is available for purchase to help further the mission of the Center. New Words, features 21 songs by contemporary songwriters, Live in London was also a BBC broadcast and Some Other Time, a tribute to Mabel Mercer. Her most recent recording (released October, 2000), Here, There and Everywhere is the celebration of the songs of 1965 to 1985, prompting Stephen Holden to write in the New York Times: “Marcovicci infuses the songs of her own generation with the same breathless fervor she has brought to the romantic ballads of Kern, Arlen, and Rodgers.” Time Out New York wrote: “What Marcovicci does so brilliantly is take a song you’ve heard a thousand times and completely revitalize it.”
Ms. Marcovicci made her San Francisco Pops debut before an audience of 5,000 in the summer of 1991 and followed up with a second appearance the following summer. In November 1993, Ms. Marcovicci made her Carnegie Hall solo debut with the American Symphony Orchestra before a sold-out audience. In February 1995 she appeared again with American Symphony in her one-woman show I’ll Be Seeing You--Love Songs of World War II at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
She made her London cabaret debut in 1994, selling out a one-month engagement at the Music Room at Pizza on the Park. Sheridan Morley, theater critic of The Spectator and The International Herald-Tribune, called her “the greatest cabaret star of her generation” and Peter Hepple in The Stage and Television Today wrote, “Marcovicci cast her spell, with a voice of supreme tenderness, much rangier than at first appeared, with a thrillingly controlled vibrato, marvelous diction and phrasing that can only come from a skilled actress.” She returned to London in August 1997 performing two shows new to London: Just Kern, a celebration of the wonderful music of Jerome Kern and Ten Cents a Dance, a tribute to Ruth Etting, the great torch singer of the 20’s and 30’s. This show was later taped for PBS in Ruth Etting’s hometown of David City, Nebraska. She has been guest artist with orchestras in Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Ft. Worth, Naples, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Costa Mesa and made her Australian debut at the Melbourne Arts Festival in October, 1998.
Andrea Marcovicci has performed at the White House and, in recognition of her accomplishments in the arts, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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