Andrea Burns
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Andréa Burns in Miami Beach, Florida
, She is an American
actress, singer and songwriter
, primarily featured in theatre
, recordings and television
. She is married to Director Performer Peter Flynn, whom she met while touring in West Side Story. They have a son named Hudson who is featured on the cover art of her solo album, A Deeper Shade of Red.
Describing herself as "...a Venezuelan Jewess from Miami Beach who grew up loving Broadway theatre."
, the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts
alumna began her career touring the opera houses of Europe as Maria in West Side Story when she was 18 years old. She has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
, as Vicki Nichols in The Full Monty, and has sung concerts at Carnegie Hall, and other American concert halls, but theatre audiences know her best for her performance in the original company of Jason Robert Brown
’s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World. Andréa portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Parade, directed by Harold Prince, for which she received a Touring Broadway Awards
nomination for Best Actress. She also created the role of Celeste in Stephen Sondheim
’s Saturday Night at Second Stage Theatre
.
Regionally, Andréa was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of
Dot in Sunday in the Park with George at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
. She also played a variety of roles across the American stage, ranging from Eva Peron in Evita to Laurey in Oklahoma!. Other regional credits include Marta in Company and Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar and recently Manuela , (the Judy Garland
role ) in the stage premiere of Cole Porter
’s The Pirate. Television credits include a recurring role on the new Electric Company
, Law & Order: SVU as well as the animated series Wonderpets.
Her debut solo album A Deeper Shade Of Red received positive reviews and she also made an appearance on the 2006 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts with “100 Stories”- a single she co-produced with her brother, Mike Burns.
She can also be heard on the original cast recordings of In The Heights, Songs for a New World, This Ordinary Thursday - The Songs of Georgia Stitt, Saturday Night, It’s Only Life, Dear Edwina, Shine, Broadway Bound, and Broadway Musicals of 1953.
Andréa Burns most recently appeared on Broadway as “Daniela” in the Tony Award
-winning musical “In The Heights”.
The Muny
, 2011
Rose "Rosie" Alvarez
Broadway Transfer, 2008
Daniela
Roundabout Revival, 2007
Googie Gomez (Standby)
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2007
Daniela (Originator)
World Premiere, 2006
Manuela
Reading, 2006
Performer
National Tour, 2001
Vicki Nichols
Original Broadway Production, 2000
Vicki Nichols [Replacement]
Off-Broadway Production, 2000
Celeste
US National Tour, 1999
Lucille Frank
New York Concert, 1999
Nancy Foyle
Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1995
Performer
Original Broadway Production, 1994
Belle [Replacement][Understudy]
Townsperson, Enchanted Object [Replacement]
Townsperson, Enchanted Object [Replacement]
Enchanted Object [Replacement]
Townsperson [Replacement]
European Tour 1992-1993
Maria [Replacement][Understudy]
[Studio Cast, 2008]
Performer
[Solo album, 2007]
[The Songs of Georgia Stitt
, 2007]
Performer
[ John Bucchino
, 2006]
Performer
[Studio Cast, 2004]
Performer
[Demo Recording, 2002]
Performer
[Studio Recording, 2002]
Performer
[Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2000]
Celeste
[Original Cast Members, 1995]
Performer
Florida
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, She is an American
United States
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actress, singer and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, primarily featured in theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, recordings and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
. She is married to Director Performer Peter Flynn, whom she met while touring in West Side Story. They have a son named Hudson who is featured on the cover art of her solo album, A Deeper Shade of Red.
Describing herself as "...a Venezuelan Jewess from Miami Beach who grew up loving Broadway theatre."
, the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts
French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts
On a majestic hillside, high in the Catskill Mountain Region of New York less than three hours from New York City is French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts . A family run camp since 1970, French Woods has been the innovative leader of individualized programming for children...
alumna began her career touring the opera houses of Europe as Maria in West Side Story when she was 18 years old. She has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (musical)
Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...
, as Vicki Nichols in The Full Monty, and has sung concerts at Carnegie Hall, and other American concert halls, but theatre audiences know her best for her performance in the original company of Jason Robert Brown
Jason Robert Brown
Jason Robert Brown is an American musical theater composer, lyricist, and playwright. Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics...
’s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World. Andréa portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Parade, directed by Harold Prince, for which she received a Touring Broadway Awards
Touring Broadway Awards
The Touring Broadway Awards recognize outstanding achievement in Broadway plays and musicals that tour North America.Founded in 2000 by the League of American Theatres and Producers, the TBAs celebrate excellence in touring Broadway by honoring artists and productions...
nomination for Best Actress. She also created the role of Celeste in Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
’s Saturday Night at Second Stage Theatre
Second Stage Theatre
Second Stage Theatre is an award-winning contemporary Off-Broadway theater company.-Mission:The theatre's mission is to give new life to contemporary American plays and to produce the world premiers of new plays by both established and emerging playwrights...
.
Regionally, Andréa was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of
Dot in Sunday in the Park with George at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth...
. She also played a variety of roles across the American stage, ranging from Eva Peron in Evita to Laurey in Oklahoma!. Other regional credits include Marta in Company and Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar and recently Manuela , (the Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
role ) in the stage premiere of Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
’s The Pirate. Television credits include a recurring role on the new Electric Company
Electric company
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, Law & Order: SVU as well as the animated series Wonderpets.
Her debut solo album A Deeper Shade Of Red received positive reviews and she also made an appearance on the 2006 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts with “100 Stories”- a single she co-produced with her brother, Mike Burns.
She can also be heard on the original cast recordings of In The Heights, Songs for a New World, This Ordinary Thursday - The Songs of Georgia Stitt, Saturday Night, It’s Only Life, Dear Edwina, Shine, Broadway Bound, and Broadway Musicals of 1953.
Andréa Burns most recently appeared on Broadway as “Daniela” in the Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-winning musical “In The Heights”.
Stage credits
- Bye Bye Birdie [St. Louis]
The Muny
The Muny
The Muny, short for The Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis, is an outdoor musical theatre, located in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri...
, 2011
Rose "Rosie" Alvarez
- In The HeightsIn the HeightsIn the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights....
[Broadway]
Broadway Transfer, 2008
Daniela
- The RitzThe Ritz (play)The Ritz is a play by Terrence McNally. Actress Rita Moreno won a Tony Award for her performance as Googie Gomez in the 1975 Broadway production, which she and many others of the original cast reprised in a 1976 film version directed by Richard Lester....
[Broadway]
Roundabout Revival, 2007
Googie Gomez (Standby)
- In the HeightsIn the HeightsIn the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights....
[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2007
Daniela (Originator)
- Cole PorterCole PorterCole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
's The PirateThe PirateThe Pirate is a 1948 American musical feature film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. With songs by Cole Porter, it stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly with co-stars Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, and George Zucco.-Plot:...
[Philadelphia, PA (Regional)]
World Premiere, 2006
Manuela
- In This House [New York]
Reading, 2006
Performer
- The Full MontyThe Full Monty (musical)The Full Monty is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally and score by David Yazbek.In this Americanized musical stage version adapted from the 1997 British film of the same name, six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers, low on both cash and prospects, decide to present a strip act at a local club...
[US Tour]
National Tour, 2001
Vicki Nichols
- The Full MontyThe Full Monty (musical)The Full Monty is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally and score by David Yazbek.In this Americanized musical stage version adapted from the 1997 British film of the same name, six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers, low on both cash and prospects, decide to present a strip act at a local club...
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2000
Vicki Nichols [Replacement]
- Saturday NightSaturday Night (musical)Saturday Night is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and the book by brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, based on their play, Front Porch in Flatbush....
[Off-Broadway]
Off-Broadway Production, 2000
Celeste
- Parade [US Tour]
US National Tour, 1999
Lucille Frank
- Sail AwaySail AwaySail Away may refer to:* Sail Away ; also the title of the first single from this album* Sail Away ** "Sail Away" , from that album* "Sail Away"...
[Off-Broadway]
New York Concert, 1999
Nancy Foyle
- Songs for a New WorldSongs for a New WorldSongs for a New World is a work of musical theater written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. Its original off-Broadway production ran for 28 performances at the WPA Theater in New York City in 1995. The show sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle, but it is neither; it is an abstract...
[Off-Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Off-Broadway Production, 1995
Performer
- Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast (musical)Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1994
Belle [Replacement][Understudy]
Townsperson, Enchanted Object [Replacement]
Townsperson, Enchanted Object [Replacement]
Enchanted Object [Replacement]
Townsperson [Replacement]
- West Side StoryWest Side StoryWest Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
[European Tour]
European Tour 1992-1993
Maria [Replacement][Understudy]
Recording credits
- In The HeightsIn the HeightsIn the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights....
[Studio Cast, 2008]
Performer
[Solo album, 2007]
[The Songs of Georgia Stitt
Georgia Stitt
Georgia Stitt is an American composer and a lyricist.-Early life:Stitt spent her childhood in Covington TN. She attended Vanderbilt University and received a B.Mus. degree in Music Theory and Composition, and New York University M.F.A...
, 2007]
Performer
John Bucchino
John Bucchino is an American composer. His hometown is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He has done work for several off-Broadway shows and highly acclaimed concerts...
, 2006]
Performer
- Fine and Dandy
[Studio Cast, 2004]
Performer
- The Last Five YearsThe Last Five YearsThe Last Five Years is a one-act musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered in Chicago in 2001 and was then produced off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and internationally....
[Demo Recording, 2002]
Performer
[Studio Recording, 2002]
Performer
- Saturday NightSaturday Night (musical)Saturday Night is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and the book by brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, based on their play, Front Porch in Flatbush....
[Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2000]
Celeste
- Songs for a New WorldSongs for a New WorldSongs for a New World is a work of musical theater written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. Its original off-Broadway production ran for 28 performances at the WPA Theater in New York City in 1995. The show sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle, but it is neither; it is an abstract...
[Original Cast Members, 1995]
Performer
Awards
- 2007 Drama Desk Award - Best ensemble
- 2003 Joseph Jefferson Awards - Nominee, Actress in a Principal Role – Musical
- 2001 Touring Broadway Awards - Nominee - Best Actress Musical