Andrea Axelrod to Perform at The Metropolitan Room This Summer

For her first appearances at The Metropolitan Room, Andrea Axelrod will present Almost Like Being in Love - exploring songs "about the cusp of love", with music director Barry Levitt and bass player Jon Burr.

The show is a mix of familiar and unfamiliar musical theater, pre-code film and cabaret songs that circle around actually being in love - in fantasy, different types of dating and flirtation, courtship, regret, marriage, lust and friendship.

Represented on the program are songwriters Edward Kleban, John Bucchino, Noel Coward, DeSylva, Brown & Henderson, Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach, Lerner & Loewe, Randy Newman, Ivor Novello, André and Dory Previn, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, Terry Shand/Jimmy Eaton, Charlie Shavers/Sid Robin, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn and Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash.

Axelrod will appear at the Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street, NYC) on Monday, June 20, Thursday, July 7 and Thursday, September 8 at 7 pm and on Sunday, October 30 at 4 pm. Tickets are $24 at www.metropolitanroom.com, with a two-drink minimum. Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.

A musical storyteller often torn between "The Blues in the Night" and Mozart's Queen of the Night, Axelrod surprises and enchants audiences with the beauty and range of her voice and singing styles. A witty entertainer, she often offers an oddball choice of material for her shows, which listeners find both moving and funny. Her programs draw on her experiences and talents as a journalist, writer, lyricist and opera singer, as well as on her love and knowledge of American theater music.

Axelrod performed numerous shows in New York cabarets with the late Paul Trueblood. She has also been heard in performances at the State Department, at Weill Recital Hall, in The Hague, in El Paso and in the Berkshires. She recently gave a concert-lecture based on her CD, The Lads That Will Never Be Old: Popular and Art Song From and About World War I, at the University of Nevada/Las Vegas (yes! she played Vegas!), and is looking forward to more such presentations in 2017, the centenary of the U.S. entry into the War.

Once a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions, her original one-woman opera comedy concert, Shishkebopera! keeps opera cogniscenti and neophytes listening and laughing.

Please visit: www.andreaaxelrod.com

Almost Like Being in Love (songs on the cusp of love)
June 20, July 7 and September 8 at 7 pm; October 30 at 4 pm
$24 cover plus two-drink minimum
Metropolitan Room (212-206-0440)
34 West 22nd Street, NY, NY 10010
Nearest Subways: 23rd Street Station on 1, 2, N, Q, R, F, M, PATH

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