People take a gander that's right Tony Award-winner Andrea Martin look how cute look at the amazing outfit
I love I bought it on the street
Literally bought the dress on street gee that camera doesn't look like it's pointing at me
Why do I feel like I need to be like this? there he is
any to the who sure okay?
So Andrea and I do a show together called Andrea Martin Final Days
Everything Must Go and I thought I'd spend this video
Discussing some of the many hilarious stories she's told me traveling to these venues cause what it is
is she'll be like "we're in Toronto I'll fly to Toronto"
"And then I'll travel for an hour and a half in a car
To another city where we do the show" so I got to find out a lot about Andrea's amazing career
I'm complaining because let me tell you something money money money, money money money money
Yeah camera back to me. No okay, so first thing is we're gonna assess two devastating auditions
So needy
It's my video series can I be on camera for some of it
I came out and a 95 degree day by the way sore throat
How can you have a summer call? It's like, so
cuz I just
We're gonna edit that out anywho my point is ok first audition
Godspell 1972 or something?
71
okay, so Andrea said she wanted to find
Wanted to find the perfect song to show herself as what? as
sweet the sweet innocent follower of Christ
number 455 Andrea Martin
(sings)
next
She did get the gig eventually. After not getting it, got it. Now part two went in for They're Playing Our Song late 70s
You went to what, a local music director?
I think I just graduated from college
And I knew the part was right for me. I went to see a vocal coach and
She- I didn't... you know I had never taken singing lessons before it was a high note
and she said when you
sing- it's the song does a man make the music and does the music make the man?
That's what they wanted me to audition with but I couldn't quite reach the music, it was high and so she said open the vowel
When you get there, and that everything will come out, so this is how I
and no one will notice
Does the man make the music?
Or does the music make the man?
Why the pause? Why not at least go quicker? Ok so that's B
Okay, now C. This is a game that Andrea and I have played based on a game that Marty Short invented, okay?
But there's no coffee. We can't do it.
Well. That's all mime.
Wow no
okay, so girls
I bought you that water fork it over oh that's actually coffee all right perfect
So this is something that Martin Short invented that Andrea plays with him this is my sister Nancy say hi
okay, this is actual coffee and how did this start at just dinner parties? where?
so I think there was six of us around the
table we had
each had a cup of coffee at the end of the meal and marty said "let's go around and pretend
we're auditioning for a coffee commercial and
I'm going to say action and this is your dialogue. You sip the coffee and you say mmM
That's a good cup of coffee." That's all that was necessary
we've been doing it for 38 years
and the whole point of the game is just to be mean
no no no no it isn't
see if you can- you know you want to learn from it if you can be natural doing the commercial shall
I tell them afterwards? all the many people about...?
yes, you'll find out who's done
It. so this is so I will now do as I would for a commercial and Andrea will critique me. Okay, okay? So just sit
that's beautiful and
action
That's a good cup of coffee
wow, okay. Now. Let me tell you something first of all what about the neck before
Ready because first just so intense intense that's not how you have a conversation you have a conversation
And you're talking do it for me now
do it for me. okay, wait I gotta get ready, okay yeah
action
Mmm. That's a good cup of coffee.
What's with the fake smile before you drank it? Completely fake you know what?
one more time and
action
That's a good cup of coffee
Wow, that's it. So yeah, you know what?
Thank you. We'll be moving on now. Here's a story with that. We would do this um
With Marty's friends who were all huge celebrities, and Tom Hanks one year. We're sitting around the table, and he did that
Literally an Oscar-winning performance, what is that about? No seriously couldn't have been more natural you're just kind of in awe
How do you do that kind of off the cuff and yet this depth, and mmm that's a good cup of coffee
Why, what am I doing?
That's crazy
And finally
So Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, you know wrote Hairspray and Catch Me if You Can
good friends with Andrea they wrote this hilarious opening number for her show Everything Must Go
Final Days Everything Must Go
We're just gonna give a little sample of it what I love is that it just highlights vocal damage
So I wanted to show you the truth the two there are two little moments. I like vocal damage
This is kind of a very condensed version of the opening number, but here it is hold on. Here's the coffee
Thank you, sweet and sweet my little niece all right all right. This is the opening number
It's for stadiums - actually did it in a stadium in Canada just camera maybe back off a little bit
opening number enjoy
I just hit town so come on down there ain't nothin
I won't show. A merry mix of songs and shticks and everything must go
some souvenirs from all the years love letters from Trudeau and
Gorbachev they're all half off everything must go I'm singing bits of Broadway hits I've lowered all the keys
I'm selling jokes. Tell me folks. How much can I get for these my whole career?
I'll tell you here and rub it in the bone
Tonight the past is moving fast and everything must go
She still got it
I'm out that's it
What a sad, sad ending. Good God only thinking of himself
I'll be appearing August 29th with this moron who didn't get the coffee commercial
At Bay Street Theatre and then in Provincetown on the fourth and fifth of September
Join us in Canada from October to March of next year.
Didn't I say it's over?