Andrea McArdle

Andrea McArdle is an American actress and singer, who for Disney, appeared as herself in Christmas at Walt Disney World. In 1999, she played Belle in the Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast and is the oldest actress to do so, being in her mid-thirties at the time. The same year, she made a cameo appearance as "Star-to-Be" in the TV movie Annie.
McArdle was born in Philadelphia and got her start with commercials before getting a break on Broadway playing the titular role of Annie. The musical was a critical and commercial smash and she became the youngest performer ever to be nominated for a Tony Award as Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She would go on to various stage productions, like Annie Get Your Gun, The Vagina Monologues, Grease, Anything Goes, Mame, Hello Dolly, Starlight Express, Cabaret, Les Misérables, State Fair, Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Fantasticks, Evita, Gypsy, NEWSical the Musical, and 2 Across. She has also performed in showrooms for casino hotels in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and clubs in Manhattan.
She appeared several times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1977-1979, and The Mike Douglas Show 1977-1980 singing with Kristy McNichol, Stephanie Mills, Liberace, and Don Rickles.
==Roles==
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Andrea mcardle as belle in beauty and the beast broadway.jpg|Belle(Beauty and the Beast; Broadway, 1999-2000)
==Gallery==
Home.png|McArdle performing in Christmas at Walt Disney World.
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Steve blanchard as gaston beauty and the beast broadway.jpg|McArdle and Steve Blanchard in a performance of "Me" in Beauty and the Beast.
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Category:Females
Category:1960s births
Category:People from Pennsylvania
Category:American people
Category:Actresses
Category:Singers
Category:Annie
Category:Beauty and the Beast
Category:Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color