Wishful Thinking NEW YORK: Rescued from Obliv’ Give 'em the Oo-la-la FREE ASSOCIATIONS Theater and Movie Songs Inspired * special lyrics by Andrea Axelrod (Songs from and About by France, and then some... the State of Oblivion)...or All Through the Day Take Me Back to Manhattan Cole Porter Songs We Forgot to Remember & Songs in There's a Boat that's Leaving Soon for New York Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II which We Remember Being Forgotten Give Him the Oo-La-La Cole Porter Out of My Dreams George & Ira Gershwin Rodgers & Hammerstein Becky's Got a Job in a Musical Show Irving Berlin Ah, Paris! Stephen Sondheim Up on Top of a Rainbow I Love Paris Cole Porter Wishing Will Make It So B.G. DeSylva (Sweepin' the Clouds Away) Sam Coslow Rose of Washington Square Impossible Rodgers & Hammerstein Isn't It Romantic Rodgers & Hart You May Just Get Your Wish A.Axelrod James F. Hanley / Ballard MacDonald One Life to Live Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin Early in the Morning Ned Rorem/Robert Hillyer I Wish It So Marc Blitztein Blame It on the Summer Night Once in a Blue Moon/Poor Pierrot Jerome Kern Charles Strouse/ Stephen Schwartz (w/ Anne Caldwell and w/ Otto Harbach) Mandoline Gabriel Faure/Paul Verlaine I Want to Go Back to Michigan Irving Berlin * Poor Pierrot Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach Manhattan Madness Irving Berlin Buds Won't Bud Harold Arlen/ E.Y. Harburg Where Oh Where Cole Porter * Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend At the Roxy Music Hall Rodgers & Hart Merry Masochism Medley: She's a Latin from Manhattan &Jule Styne/Leo Robin Blue Room Rodgers & Hart There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner + Glitter and Be Gay L. Bernstein, R.Wilbur Wouldn't It Be Loverly Lerner & Loewe Harry Warren/Al Dubin Glad to Be Unhappy + My Man's Gone Now + I Love Louisa Dietz & Schwartz I Got a Right to Sing the Blues + I'm Always Chasing Violon Francis Poulenc I Wish I Knew Harry Warren/Mack Gordon At the Roxy Music Hall (reprise) Rainbows + Little Girl Blue + I'd Rather Be Blue + Make the Man Love Me Smile + I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life Si Vous Aimez les Poitrines Cole Porter Arthur Schwartz/Dorothy Fields The Brooklyn Bridge & Time After Time Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn Adolescence Libby Larsen Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup Anna Sosenko I Dream Too Much Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields Toothbrush Time William Bolcom/ Arnold Weinstein Messieurs, Mesdames Lorenz Hart I Wish I Were in Love Again Rodgers & Hart * Nobody Makes a Pass at Me Harold Rome I Wait for a Ship Kurt Weill, Jacques Deval Nobody's Chasing Me Cole Porter What Good Would the Moon Be I Wish I Didn't Love You So Frank Loesser The Last Time I Saw Paris Kern/Hammerstein Kurt Weill/Langston Hughes Quiet Night Rodgers & Hart I Want to Be a War Bride George & Ira Gershwin Loneliness of Evening Rodgers & Hammerstein Les Chemins de l'Amour Francis Poulenc My Simple Wish: Make Someone Happy Styne, Comden & Green I Want to Be Rich, Famous and Powerful She (He) Is Not Thinking of Me Lerner & Loewe I Happen to Like New York Cole Porter Mademoiselle de Paris David Friedman * & Paul Durand, Eric Maschwitz Lonely Town Bernstein, Comden & Green Mamie Is Mimi Jule Styne, Leo Robin Never Never Land Styne, Comden & Green When You're Far Away from New York Dave Frishberg The Clockmaker (Cockney) La Vie en Rose Louiguy, Edith Piaf I Want to Sing in Opera Worton David & George Arthurs, et al. The Alto's Lament Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler [Bizet, Offenbach, Donizetti, etc.]* ANDREA AXELROD -- “Give 'em the Oo-la-la [a collection a singer often torn between "The Blues in the Night" of French music hall songs, Poulenc, and Mozart's Queen of the Night -- surprises and Piaf and American songwriters' views enchants audiences with the beauty and range of her of France] is "one of the most voice and singing style. interesting programs around...she has a beautiful and ample voice." Her often oddball choice of material for her shows, which listeners find both moving and funny, and her -- Roy Sander, Back Stage witty patter and specialty lyrics make for a singular ANDREA AXELROD cabaret evening or special event, drawing on her Andrea has performed regularly in New York cabarets, experiences and talents as a journalist, writer, lyricist as well as in appearances at the State Department, in and opera singer, as well as on her love of American The Hague, in El Paso and in the Berkshires. theater music. A regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Shishkebopera, her original one-woman opera she created the role of the Royal Physician in Rob Kapilow's comedy concert, founded on the notion that to sing is adaptation of James Thurber's Many Moons for the heaven, to skewer divine keeps opera cogniscenti and New Jersey State Opera and sang the role of Lucy in A neophytes listening and laughing. Die Dreigroschenoper at the Kaye Playhouse in New York. She has performed such roles as the Queen of "At last, witty and whimsical the Night, Konstanze, and, in a double bill at the operatic send ups that work Brooklyn Academy of Music, Serpina (La Serva Padrona) and make for a truly exhilarating and Susanna (The Secret of Susanna). She gave the evening...I laughed myself silly European premiere of Libby Larsen's song cycle ME: and was happily reminded of [her] Brenda Ueland at the Kiev International Music Festival illustrious predecessor, and has given lieder recitals throughout the northeast Anna Russell." and in Normandy at the International Music Festival at -- Nimet Habachy, WQXR Moulin d'Andé. Formerly a newspaper reporter and full-time PR executive, Working with such first-rate music directors as Andrea was awarded a Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowship Paul Trueblood and Paul Greenwood, Andrea has for writing at Williams College and has a degree from A2 PRODUCTIONS a unique musical entertainer for explored the less usual songs related to New York, the Columbia University School of Journalism. 175 West 92nd St./5D songs about wishes, dreams and aspirations, and, in her New York, NY 10025 show Rescued from Obliv', "the songs we forgot to As an entertainer who continues to work in the worlds Cabaret remember and the songs in which we remember being of journalism, marketing communications and special Tel. 212-865-3492 Corporate Events forgotten." event planning, Andrea has the sensibility as well as the Fax 212-865-3717 Social Events wit to tailor programs and customize lyrics for unique [email protected] Pops Concerts business and social occasions. A .