The title track from D.C. Anderson’s i am still release starts on a somber note. Just piano and his made-for-musical-theater voice singing of “thistles where there once was grass.” But listen for a moment and hear the acoustic guitar add delicate touches as Anderson fleshes out a story of an abandoned hotel—from the hotel’s point of view. The unusual perspective coupled with the sonic sparseness of the song proves quite refreshing.
The rest of the album offers equal parts comedy and drama. From the hilarious “Jury Duty Girlfriend” (“How long can she resist? I’m the only guy who’s single, let’s turn this trial into a tryst”) to the moving “Sad Man,” written after the death of his mother, Anderson paints pictures that you’ll want to keep hanging in your mind. "
— Mare Wakefield, Performing Songwriter Magazine November 2006
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About DC
D.C. Anderson is an award winning Singer/Songwriter with 9 CD's currently available on the LML Music label. Also an actor, D.C. is currently touring the United States and Canada in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - arranging opportunities to perform his original songs in music rooms, concert halls and theaters whenever possible.
D.C’s performing career actually began "on the road" - in the back of the family station wagon where he and his sisters would repeat, from memory, the entire score of THE MUSIC MAN. He often made "personal appearances" - singing the hits of Petula Clark and Gary Lewis and the Playboys while upstairs changing into his PJ’s. The entire family would gather outside his door to listen, anxiously waiting for him to emerge so they could ask him, "Are you all right?"
Undeterred, D.C. studied voice and theatre at Ohio’s Baldwin Wallace College (along with actress/singer/songwriter Kristine Zbornik) and did graduate work in directing at North Dakota State University.
D.C.,or David as he was known at the time, left NDSU to study dance with the BILL EVANS DANCE COMPANY in Seattle, Washington with hopes of becoming a modern dancer, let's just say that dance isn't his strongest suit... While in Seattle he appeared in CANDIDE, THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, DEAR BRUTUS, JACQUES BREL IS..., and a few self-produced revues of the music of Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin and Harold Arlen with Paul King and musical director/pianist Darcy Danielson at the Skid Road Theater and The Conservatory Theater Company.
He moved to New York City and promptly left town as PIPPIN in a tour of the show of the same name and, later, went on to tour in THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival Company. In between the two he answered phones at the St. Moritz (working for LEONA HELMSLY!! - "She was awfully nice to me. I liked her!" he says) and worked with Cher, Susan Sarandon, and others as a trainer at the New York Health and Racquet Club on 56th. (Impressions left by blankets on their faces in the morning... the great leveler.)
Re-locating to Chicago, he began performing solo and as part of the trio ON THE SLY (with Hollis Resnick and Susan Hart) with musical director Rick Snyder at Orphans on Lincoln Avenue (now shuttered) and appeared in HARRY CHAPIN; LIES AND LEGENDS, Craig Carnelia's THREE POSTCARDS and countless commercials for Joe Sedelmaier ("Where's the beef"). A brief appearance in ABC TV's LADY BLUE convinced him that series television was in his future...cut to Los Angeles where he first became associated with Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (20 years and counting). The roles of Judge Coras in MARTIN GUERRE at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Thomas Harrison in THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Buddy in FOLLIES in North Dakota and Dennis Shepard, Jeffrey Lockwood and Andy Paris in THE LARAMIE PROJECT EPILOGUE at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis have provided D.C. with acting opportunities outside of his work with PHANTOM.
His 9 solo CD's are 1993' s TIME WAS, 1997's THE BOX UNDER THE BED, 2000's BLUE SUMMER DAY, 2001's ALL IS CALM..., 2002's COLLECTED, 2004's BALLAD, 2006's I AM STILL, 2008's OUR STORY and 2009's CLOSE COMPANIONS. D.C., along with Marguerite Pritchard and Dennis Drake produced the first Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit holiday recording CABARET NOEL: a Broadway Cares Christmas. His appearance at Nebraska's BROWNVILLE CONCERT SERIES was taped and has been broadcast on PBS stations across the United States.
Primarily a lyricist, D.C.'s songwriting collaborators include Steven Landau, Roy Zimmerman, Elizabeth Doyle, Rick Snyder, Stephen Randoy, Carol Hall, Geoff Packard, Ritt Henn, David Robison, Michael Gillis, Jeff Rizzo, Ricklen Nobis and the late great Albert Hague.
The songbook, "Songs by D.C. Anderson" was released in October 2002 and is available at www.LMLMusic.com as well as Colony Music in NYC and Hollywood Sheet Music in Los Angeles. Individual songs can be downloaded at www.musicnotes.com
Visit www.youtube.com/davidcameronanderson for videos of concert performances.
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