Andrea McArdle to Perform at Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts

Tony Award-nominated star Andrea McArdle brings her Broadway voice to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Tuesday, January 12 at 8 p.m.

Tickets, priced starting at $20 for the public and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling (310) 506-4522 or online at http://arts.pepperdine.edu/.

Andrea McArdle first captured the hearts of theatergoers everywhere in 1977 when she originated the title role in the mega-musical Annie. Since then, she has starred in several Broadway musicals and appeared in theatres in New York, nationally and internationally. She has performed in concert halls from Carnegie Hall to the Hong Kong Philharmonic and casino hotels in both Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

As "Annie", Andrea became the youngest performer ever to be nominated for a Tony Award as Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She also received the Theater World and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for her performance and went on to star when the show was produced on London's West End.

Also on Broadway, Andrea starred in the Jerry Herman musical Jerry's Girls alongside Carol Channing and Leslie Uggams; she portrayed the sassy Smoking Car, Ashley, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express; and starred as Margy Frake in State Fair; as Fantine in LES MISERABLES and as Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. She toured nationally starring as Sally Bowles in Cabaret and as Eponine in LES MISERABLES, and appeared as herself in The Vagina Monologues, which she appeared in Off-Broadway as well. Most recently, Andrea appeared Off-Broadway in the satirical Newsical and regionally as the title role in Mame.

In addition to Annie, Andrea's film and television credits include starring as Judy Garland in Rainbow; appearing in The Leading Ladies of Broadway on PBS and All My Children on ABC; and headlining her own PBS special Andrea McArdle On Broadway.