#andrea mcardle

[ridiculousmaddancer]

Beauty and the Beast- Home (With Lyrics)~Multi-Language

[mthguy]

The original Broadway production of Annie opened at the Alvin Theatre on April 21, 1977, and starred Andrea McArdle as Annie, Reid Shelton as Warbucks, Dorothy Loudon as Miss Hannigan, and Robert Fitch as Rooster Hannigan with Barbara Erwin as Lily St. James. It was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and won seven, including the Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book.

Here, Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily perform “Easy Street” joined by Annie with Sandy the dog, Daddy Warbucks, and a slew of orphans singing “Tomorrow” on the 1977 Tony Awards.

[onewordshy]

It's so funny that "Tomorrow," arguably one of theee most iconic songs in the musical theatre canon, was written to cover a set change.

[jgroffdaily]

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ Spring Fundraising Competition topped $4,702,394.

The theater community - those onstage, offstage and in the audience - rallied together to raise the spectacular total across six weeks of dedicated fundraising. This support is being translated into nourishing meals, vital health care and boundless hope for people in need across all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

The fundraising total was announced by Gavin Creel, J. Harrison Ghee and Andrea McArdle on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at Hats Off to You, an intimate event for members of Broadway Cares’ Visionary Circle, Angels Circle, NextGen Network and Colleen Dewhurst Legacy Society.

Broadway

Top Fundraiser: Merrily We Roll Along – $448,446

1st Runner-up: Sweeney Todd – $428,386

2nd Runner-up: Moulin Rouge! The Musical – $238,962

3rd Runner-up: Hadestown – $178,706

4th Runner-up: & Juliet – $176,584

Off-Broadway

Top Fundraiser: Little Shop of Horrors – $105,237

1st Runner-up: Titanique – $48,041

2nd Runner-up: The Play That Goes Wrong – $25,844

[wonderful-magician]

StEx appreciation month !! Day six! Ashley!

Favorite performers ( not ordered )

- Andrea McArdle

- Sian Jones

Favorite song/moment

Girls rolling stock and lotta locomotion!! Especially her vocal riff in some versions of girls rolling stock!!

Notes

She's so lovely and very lesbian wine aunt I love her dearly ...

[70s80sandbeyond]

Andrea McArdle and Reid Shelton as Annie and Daddy Warbucks in the original Broadway production of "Annie" in 1977

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.5

Beer Birthdays

William G. Jung (1886)

Rob Widmer (1956)

Alastair Hook (1963)

Greg Hall (1965)

Craig Purser (1966)

Kim Sturdavant (1979)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Berger; artist, critic (1926)

Eugene Debs; labor organizer (1855)

Will Durant; historian (1885)

Sam Rockwell; actor (1968)

Jim Steranko; comic book artist (1938)

Famous Birthdays

Bryan Adams; Canadian rock singer (1959)

Washington Allston; artist (1779)

Peter Emmerich; animator, illustrator (1973)

Myron Floren; accordionist (1919)

Mo Gaffney; comedian, actor (1958)

Art Garfunkel; pop singer (1941)

Famke Janssen; Dutch actor (1965)

Vivian Leigh; actor (1913)

Andrea McArdle; singer, actor (1963)

Joel McCrea; actor (1905)

Corin Nemec; actor (1971)

Peter Noone; English rock singer (1947)

Tatum O'Neal; actor (1963)

Gram Parsons; rock guitarist, singer (1946)

Robert Patrick; actor (1958)

William Daniel Phillips; physicist (1948)

Roy Rogers; actor, singer (1911)

Natalie Schafer; actor (1900)

Sam Shephard; actor, playwright (1943)

Elke Sommer; actor (1940)

Walter Stanley; Green Bay Packers WR (1962)

Tilda Swinton; singer (1960)

Ida Tarbell; writer (1857)

Chef Tell; actually Friedman Paul Erhardt, celebrity chef (1943)

Ike Turner; singer, pianist (1931)

Bill Walton; L.A. Clippers C (1952)

Fred Lawrence Whipple; astronomer (1906)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox; poet (1919)

Christopher Wood; writer (1935)

[the-french-eurobitch]

~DAY #6 & 7: BUFFY & ASHLEY

Favorite Actors: 

(BUFFY) Lola Knox, Sian Jones, & Akiko Nakasone

(ASHLEY) Emma Prosser, Andrea McArdle, & Susan Torbeck (Who I actually know and had worked with throughout high school! ;) )

Favorite Songs/Scenes: 

Girl’s Rolling Stock

This Is Gonna Be The Day

The “intro” to UNCOUPLED where they both ask Dinah what’s wrong…WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN Y’ALL

Favorite Ships:

Smoked Burgers

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

AshDust? (or basically Ashley x Dustin haha)

BuffTop? (Buffy x Flat Top)

Headcanons:

(BUFFY)

Both she and Dinah keep up a system where they help run each other's dining/cafe businesses

She's had periodic all-nighters at 3am trying to replicate high quality coffee drinks

She loves ta show off Ashley a lot. If ya know, ya know <3

(ASHLEY)

She has a "bookworm" side in herself like Rusty, but kind of keeps it a secret from most out of some insecurities

She's an early bird kinda gal! ;) Loves to wake up at 5 in the morning and watch every sunrise with coffee in hand

She and Buffy met when they were both teens

Unpopular Opinions

None. I love them both. ;)

[oldbaton]

one of my favorite carol channing stories is that when she was working with andrea mcardle in jerry's girls, andrea was 19-21 so she was a grumpy teen/early twenty something. andrea was complaining about having to sing "the t-song" constantly. carol apparently said "ANDREA. Do you have ay clue how lucky you are to have a song that is associated with only you? That way they have something to play when you win a Tony". then they had a picture of another notable actress nearby (no clue who) and Carol remarked "what are they going to play if she wins one?"

[aliveandfullofjoy]

i will not lie, if i were who i am now in 1999 and i saw they got andrea mcardle to do the star-to-be solo in the rob marshall annie, i would’ve probably popped a blood vessel

[i-may-not-be-first-class]

StEx Appreciation Month Day 7: Ashley 🚬

Andrea McArdle (Broadway 1987, first cast); Roslyn Howell (Bochum 1988, first cast)

Favourite Actor: Erin Lordan, Stacia Goad, Emma Prosser

Favourite Songs/Scenes: A Lotta Locomotion, Girls’ Rolling Stock, I love it ✨ (that’s what I call the short scene before Light in the original London version)

Favourite Costume: a mix between Broadway and early 2010s Bochum I guess - it’s not that easy haha

[petraicelake]

Day 7: Ashley!!!!

Favourite Actor

Erin Jordan, C. Jay Ranger, Andrea McArdle,Johanne Simpson

Favourite Songs/Scenes

Girls Rollingstock,A lotta Locomotion/A whole lotta locomotion,Engine of Love, Crazy, The rap

Favourite ships

Ashley x Buffy

Headcanons

Don't have any

Unpopular opinion

none

[paxesoterica]

Thoughts on the Revue Starlight Specials

There's three shorts, each about 7 minutes, and they seem to be set as interludes in Episode 12, between Karen rescuing Hikari from the latter's self-imposed imprisonment, and the final scene where they perform together as the leads in Starlight.

The first is “Measuring”, which starts kinda meh, since it features the annoying anime trope of girls getting their measurements taken, and one of them (Futaba in this case) lamenting her lack of size. Fortunately, it takes a better turn when Hikari blurts out the name Christine McArdle, and goes on to explain that she was an actress who never grew taller as an adult, but didn't let that hinder her career, and instead used it as part of image, a story which is encouraging to Futaba; I like how this exchange showcased Hikari as being a little blunt, a little weird, and 100% theater nerd, and also gave some focus to Futaba, who hasn't seen a whole lot since Episode 6.

There's also a seemingly random scene of Karen practicing with a baseball bat, which is repeated in the second short, and will be addressed in the third.

(As an aside, Christine McArdle appears to be fictional, but her surname may have been inspired by Andrea McArdle, an actress and signer whose first breakout role was in her teens as the lead of Annie).

The second, “Discussion”, is my favorite. First, there's the staging, where the scene is at a switchback staircase, with Hikari positioned at the top, Maya at the bottom, and Junna on the landing in the middle (yes, this is also a commonly used anime trope, but I like this one because it's visually interesting and doesn't remind me of questionable depictions of girls and women in anime).

As for the titular discussion, it features Maya criticizing Hikari for, from her perspective, not displaying the strength and courage to persevere in her role as Claire in Starlight, qualities which Maya feels epitomizes the character and which she did her best to display when she was the lead last year. 

Hikari agrees, and explains that instead she's choosing to emphasize Claire's friendship and gratitude, which mollifies Maya, and then segues into a discussion about Maya's frustration at not being in a lead role this year; despite her negative feelings, Maya promises she won't pull any malicious pranks against Hikari (something which Maya has been previously subjected to from other actresses who were jealous of her getting the lead), and the two find common ground in their love of Starlight (though Maya does promise that she'll reclaim the role if Hikari's acting isn't up to par, because, well, this *is* Maya Tendou, after all).

Junna adds a small, but important, part to the discussion, mentioning that while she wishes she could have a lead role, she's still happy to be present on the stage (which is an amazing bit of meta commentary, since it can be interpreted as Junna referring to either her role in the conversation she's currently in, her role in the play Starlight, *and/or* her role in the anime series).

Ngl, I love stories that talk about the act of storytelling and how stories are structured (when done well, of course). It's one of the reasons I enjoy Revolutionary Girl Utena, Princess Tutu, and Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun as much as I do, and to me, Revue Starlight carries on that tradition, and it's definitely one of the show's strengths. Small wonder then, that a discussion about different ways to interpret the same character, both of which are true to what's written about her, is something I would find appealing.

It also provides a bit of nuance and closure for Maya, a character who's used to being the lead and is more invested in it than perhaps anyone else, that the anime didn't have quite enough time to convey.

Lastly, we have “Opening”, which starts by following up on Karen's batting practice in the other shorts with her arriving at a batting cage to win a prize for Hikari. The next scene cuts to the costuming students fretting about where Karen is, while Claudine and Kaoruko have a conversation about their respective relationships with Maya and Futaba (which provides another link to the other two shorts), until the two of them notice Hikari is acting off; apparently, Karen had warned her classmates ahead of time that Hikari might get anxious before performing, so all the girls band together to offer Hikari various remedies to soothe her nerves, with Karen arriving last to offer the prize she won from batting.

There's no deep symbolism or meta-storytelling here, I simply enjoyed this scene just for the warm friendship feels; these kids have been through a lot pitting them against each other, so it's nice to see them come out of it as supportive of each other as ever (and perhaps even moreso than previously).

I've written before that my main critique of Revue Starlight is that it simply needed more time to show its cast (apparently there were quite a few production issues, but the crew behind the anime rallied together to make this show the best they could, which I think is quite sweetly reflected in how the fictional Seisho students work together to make their own show happen), and these shorts collectively amount to an episode that gives some closure and a glimpse at the headspace some of the stage girls are in just before the end of the anime, in particular fleshing out Hikari and her relationships with her fellow cast a bit, something we did not get to see much of in the show itself.

Long story short, if you already enjoyed the series, I would recommend watching the shorts as a sort of epilogue supplement to Episode 12 (and since they come as supplemental features of the blu-ray, they don't require much effort to get if you've already invested in the show).

Next time, on to the movies!

[leanstooneside]

Andrea McArdle (GOSSAMER)

UP SPILLED WATER

WAS HIDDEN FROM

WITH WOVEN STRAW

FOOD EATEN BY

AND SPILLED ITS

WAS BLOWN AND

[jamieroxxartist]

Happy Birthday. Today, Nov 5, 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer was born.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_McArdle)

[granhairdo]

wait andrea mcardle played eponine and no one told me