Christine Andreas

 

Subj:

Re:  Christine Andreas 

Date:

8/3/2005 1:36:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time

From:

LGoldman@njpac.org

To:

AShafman@aol.com

 

 

 

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June 8, 2005

 

Dear  Arthur:

 

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has been presenting the top cabaret singers in the Metropolitan area to sold-out rooms (seating:  260) for four seasons.  No performer has captivated the audience more than Christine Andreas who appeared at NJPAC on May 15th, 2005.

 

The elegance of Ms. Andreas’ presence and warmth of the twinkle in her eye were surpassed only by the purity of her extraordinary voice.  While other performers in this intimate setting also have wonderful voices, what made the evening so special was the way in which Christine Andreas pulled the audience slowly but surely into her powerful magnetic field.  This is an artist who can do a lot with a look, a smile, a climb onto the piano.

 

When Christine sang of the human condition, and her specialty is expressing the human condition, the room became quiet, not a glass was clinked, and the words of the songs were steeped in sincerity.  This was not an actor playing a role—this was a woman who seemed to be drawing on her own life experiences and expressing them through the American songbook.  Nowhere did the verisimilitude become more apparent than during her Gershwin melody and the highlight of that was a sultry version of I’ve Got a Crush on You  which visibly moved at least this member of the audience.

 

Experiencing a Christine Andreas performance is like compressing the emotions of real adult life into 90 minutes and feeling that you have experienced something deep, real, and very beautiful.

 

 

                                                            Lawrence P. Goldman

                                                            President & CEO, NJPAC