Andrea Marcovicci at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

From the Ziegfeld girl to the radio dame, torch singers have interpreted America’s greatest ballads from the 1920’s to the present day.

Despite the overwhelming melancholy of these love songs, Andrea, with her usual panache not only traces their history, and the great singers who introduced them like Helen Morgan, Ruth Etting, and Libby Holman, among others, but adds a delicious sense of fun to the proceedings with backstage stories of intrigue and inspiration. It’s a tale of longing, losing, and gunplay! Highlights: Someone to Watch Over Me, Love Me or Leave Me, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Body and Soul, Just Like a Man, and Shakin' the Blues Away.