LUCK FINDS MARCOVICCI UNDER `FINIAN'S RAINBOW'.Leave the hair-splitting to the critics. As far as Andrea Marcovicci Andrea Marcovicci (born November 18,1948 in New York City) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and singer. As an actress she first became known in the television soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing, as Dr. Betsy Chernak Taylor from 1970-1973. is concerned, there's no significant difference between cabaret, musicals and plays. ``They're all essentially one art form,'' says Marcovicci, who ought to know whereof where·of conj. 1. Of what: I know whereof I speak. 2. a. Of which: ancient pottery whereof many examples are lost. b. Of whom. she speaks. After launching her acting career on the TV soaper ``Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,'' Marcovicci has been seen in movies (``The Front''), Broadway musicals (``Ambassador'') and performing some of the toughest female stage roles in the repertoire (``St. Joan,'' ``Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''). Lately, however, it's been her singing career that has brought Marcovicci an intensely loyal fan base and the kind of praise reserved for cabaret's elite. Comparisons to Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), was a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated singer and actress, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. and Marlene Dietrich (not to mention Eleanor Duse) have become almost commonplace. Reviewers seem equally smitten with Marcovicci's high-cheekboned physical beauty and wit as they are with her gift for shaping a Gershwin or Berlin tune into a one-act mini-drama. She'll have a chance to utilize all those assets this week when she appears in ``Finian's Rainbow,'' the second offering in the new ``Reprise re·prise n. 1. Music a. A repetition of a phrase or verse. b. A return to an original theme. 2. A recurrence or resumption of an action. tr.v. !'' series of staged concert versions of neglected Broadway shows. Marcovicci stars as a romance-minded Irish lass whose world gets flipped when she and her father steal a crock crock - [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix "make(1)", which of gold from a leprechaun leprechaun (lĕp`rəkŏn), Irish fairy represented as a tiny old man. Leprechauns are mischievous and elusive creatures, said to possess buried crocks of gold, the location of which they will reveal if forced. . With a score by E.Y. Harburg and Burton Lane Burton Lane (February 2, 1912, New York City - January 5, 1997, New York City) was an American composer and lyricist. Lane (real name Burton Levy) was best known for his Broadway musicals, Finian's Rainbow (1947) and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever that produced such supper club Noun 1. supper club - usually a small luxurious nightclub cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot, club - a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at classics as ``Old Devil Moon,'' the show had a successful Broadway run when it opened in 1947. But its themes of racial bigotry dated rapidly, resulting in few successful revivals. Consequently, the ``Reprise!'' concert will give audiences a chance to hear a live performance of a score most only know from recordings - a mission Marcovicci enthusiastically endorses. ``When I look at my repertoire, however many thousands of songs, I would be hard pressed to name a song that is not from a show. And that's one of the best things that cabaret artists do, is to preserve these songs,'' she says. Will she get to dance? ``I'm hoping so! But I'll have to wait and see if I get breathless, 'cause I'm not used to singing and dancing at the same time. I'm no Marge Champion,'' she says, referring to the great Broadway dancer-choreographer. ``But it would be fun to kick up my heels a teeny Teeny 1/16 or 0.0625 of one full point in price. Steenth. bit.'' Purposeful storytelling has long been one of Marcovicci's stylistic signatures. She started out writing and crooning what she describes as ``awful folk songs'' in an earnest, Joan Baez vein. A Studio City resident since May, Marcovicci says she had to be ``dragged kicking and screaming'' from Hollywood. ``First you get married, then you have a baby and you move to the Valley and you get a Volvo,'' she says, synopsizing the area's flair for conformity. But she, her husband and the couple's young daughter have found the Valley to be ``the perfect combination.'' ``I love it over here. I just think it's in every way homey and a world unto itself. THE FACTS What: ``Finian's Rainbow.'' Where: Sept. 24-28 at Freud Playhouse in Macgowan Hall, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . When: 8 p.m. today and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $40 to $45. Call (213) 480-3232. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Andrea Marcovicci plays a romance-minded Irish lass whose world is turned upside down in ``Finian's Rainbow.'' |
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