Broadway’s Christine Andreas Brings Cabaret to Tanglewood Friday

Friday, November 13, 7pm | Lenox, MA

Broadway singer Christine Andreas makes her Tanglewood debut on Friday with her cabaret show “S’Wonderful,” at the Tanglewood Learning Institute’s Studio E in the Linde Center for Music and Learning. Her husband, composer and pianist Martin Silvestri, accompanies her. The program draws on the American songbook, including songs by Gershwin, Berlin, Bacharach, Billy Joel, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

The show is the first step in a plan by the Tanglewood Learning Institute to program more cabaret acording to the venue. Outside its annual Valentine’s Day evenings, it is rearranging Studio E into a cabaret room for the first time. Seating is at tables, and food and drinks will be sold.

Andreas has been nominated for two Tony Awards, for Laurey in “Oklahoma!” and for Frankie Frayne in “On Your Toes,” and won a Theatre World Award as Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.” Her other Broadway work includes “La Cage aux Folles” and “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” She has written and performed about 15 cabaret shows, including ones devoted to Edith Piaf and the American songbook, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall. The New York Times has called her cabaret act “pure alchemy.”

She and Silvestri met through his musical “The Fields of Ambrosia,” in which she starred in London’s West End, and they performed together at the White House in 1992. Silvestri is a two-time Grammy nominee.

The Learning Institute’s November concerts are also a drop-off point for the Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program. Guests are asked to bring a new, unwrapped, non-violent toy for the collection boxes in the Linde Center lobby.

Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, 3 West Hawthorne Road, Lenox, MA. Tickets at bso.org or 617-266-1200.