Christine Andreas
Beach Café , NYC, February 10, 2018
Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes
Photo: Stacy Sullivan
The February night was cold, dark, pouring rain. But, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the intimate Beach Café was warmly aglow as, packed with patrons, the room presented theater and cabaret star Christine Andreas.
online pharmacy https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/new/amoxil.html no prescription drugstore
buy antabuse online https://praxis.edu/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/fonts/new/antabuse.html no prescription
In great voice, in a warm mood, and creating a strong connection with her audience—with her multi-talented musical director (and husband) Martin Silvestri at the piano—Andreas shone as she presented a generous helping of favorite songs from favorite musicals, programmed as a tribute to a number of the theater’s leading ladies.
Among the dozen-plus numbers, Mary Martin was remembered as Andreas offered Martin’s early hit “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” as well as “I’m Flying,” from her later success in Peter Pan. Gertrude Lawrence was saluted with “Shall We Dance?” from The King and I, while Julie Andrews was given a bow with “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady (a starring role Andreas played in a 1976 revival). Angela Lansbury was recalled with two numbers from Mame, “My Best Beau” and “If He Walked Into My Life” and Ethel Merman was remembered with “Moonshine Lullaby” and “They Say It’s Wonderful,” both from Annie Get Your Gun..
In a visit to a more distant past, there was a moving “Bill,” the Kern-Hammerstein classic originally made famous by Helen Morgan in Show Boat. Andreas cast a spell throughout the cafe with Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” originally introduced by Glynis Johns in A Little Night Music. Andreas’ own starring performance in The Scarlet Pimpernel was recalled with her rendition of the show’s soaring “Storybook”—sung partly in French.
The Beach Café, a long-standing neighborhood restaurant, was transformed last year, with Mark Nadler’s knowledgeable assistance, into an occasional cabaret room.
online pharmacy https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/new/stromectol.html no prescription drugstore
It’s a perfect spot in which to enjoy some of cabaret’s finest performers, close-up.
