Andrea McArdle, the original star of "Annie," sings "You Light Up My Life" and is joined by Sandy for her classic version of "Tomorrow" in this 1977 cabaret TV appearance.
I was SOOOOOO lucky to have seen her on Broadway the first year she brought Annie to life. My high school theater group from Ohio traveled to NYC Thanksgiving weekend 1977. The city was ablaze in Christmas decor. It was a magical trip! She will always be my favorite Annie.
She was never going to beat Dorothy Loudon, who played Miss Hannigan, for the Award. Not a chance. Dorothy easily got the best reviews of the show and she was a beloved veteran who finally got her moment in the spotlight.
Every Annie should sing Tomorrow after singing You Light Up My Life. Holy cow both were great. If she wanted to sing that particular song in a nightclub, more power to her.
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As an adult she sang with ladies of Broadway singing this song after “ look for the silver lining “ this song has more resonance as an adult and she emoted that feeling unlike here where she’s a freight train coming down the tracks . Best Annie
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I love Andrea, but "You Light Up My Life" didn't work in this context - it requires a feeling of pain and knowing experience on the part of the singer, and she was too young here. But "Tomorrow" - no one has ever sung it better than Andrea McArdle.
VideoArchiveGuy Good point, it seems a little awkward considering she was only 13 or 14 years old and didn’t have the life experience to convey those emotions. She performed it on the Mike Douglas Show around this time and I thought similar when viewing the video. But this song was ubiquitous on the radio and in pop culture at this time and my guess is Andrea probably loved the song and thought she could bring something to it with her own unique talents. I think she managed to do so, despite her young age.
@bradley branham I don’t think you understand the history of the song at all. Debby Boone’s version was a cover version. The original version was from a film starring Didi Conn. I’m aware of how Debby interpreted the song, but she wasn’t the songwriter and actually didn’t have any control over the production or how she sang it. It was not originally written as a religious song. The songwriter (and Debby’s producer) Joseph Brooks was not a christian and didn’t write it about God. I hate to burst your bubble about the song but do some research into the man and his history, behavior, his children and more. It’s an incredibly dark and sordid tale that will disabuse you of any notion of intended religious meaning behind the song. Debby’s cover was a huge hit on pop radio playing along soft rock tunes about lovers and relationships and back in 77-78 I think its safe to say the vast majority of casual pop listeners thought of the song as romantic and not religious.
Does anyone know what cabaret theater this was and what it was filmed for? It seems like the kind of thing HBO or Showtime used to air from time to time, way way way back in the beginning years of cable TV channels. They would air these small musical and comedy specials in between movies and sports.
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