Article: Giving Voice: Cabaret singer and actress Andrea Marcovicci finally

George Robinson
The Jewish Week
10-25-1996
Giving Voice: Cabaret singer and actress Andrea Marcovicci finally gets to sing the role of Anne Frank.

Andrea Marcovicci has waited over 20 years for this part.

The wait began in 1973 when her friend, writer Enid Futterman, noticed that with her hair cut a certain way the young actress-singer looked "like one of the famous photographs of Anne Frank." Futterman recalls, "It put something into my mind."

What it put into Futterman's mind was the idea of musicalization of "The Diary of a Young Girl," easily the most famous book to emerge from the ashes of the Holocaust. Futhrman, who was working at Grey Advertising, put her head together with Michael ...

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