D. C. Anderson

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D. C. Anderson is a U.S. cabaret and folk singer/songwriter, and an actor who made his Broadway debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. He has toured nationally as Judge Coras in Boublil and Shoenberg's Martin Guerre, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicleby, The Phantom of the Opera as Andre, and as Pippin in Pippin.

Regional credits include acting stints with the Steppenwolf Theater Company of Chicago - 'The Ballad of Little Jo' by Mike Reid and Sarah Schlesinger and directed by Tina Landau, Northlight Theater's 'Three Postcards' by Craig Carnelia and Craig Lucas, directed by David Petrarca and Guthrie Theater's Martin Guerre, directed by Conal Morrison. He performs solo concerts in theaters and cabaret rooms in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and others. Awards include Backstage Magazine's 2002 Singer/Songwriter Bistro Award and Cabaret Hotline Online's Jeff Matson Award.

In 1993 D.C. produced the first Holiday benefit recording for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Titled Cabaret Noel. This album was a 2 CD set featuring 22 new or never before recorded songs by Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne, Polly Pen, Alan Chapman, Roy Zimmerman, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, Amanda McBroom, Michele Brourman, and others. Performances were by popular Broadway and cabaret performers Richard Kiley, Leslie Uggams, Robert Morse, Andrea Marcovicci, Cheryl Bentyne, Tommy Tune, Maureen McGovern, Karen Ziemba, Susan Stroman and Scott Ellis, Jeff Harnar, Portia Nelson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Karen Akers, and others.

While on the road, Anderson often performs solo shows at nearby venues. He performs mostly original songs, often in collaboration with Steven Landau, Ritt Henn, Geoff Packard, Stephen Randoy, Jeff Rizzo, David Robison, Elizabeth Doyle, Carol Hall, Adryan Russ, as well as a few cover songs, including many by Cheryl Wheeler.

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Time Was (1993) includes songs by Cheryl Wheeler, Mare Winningham, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, Alan Chapman, Lori Carson.
The Box Under the Bed (1997) includes songs by Cheryl Wheeler, Susan Osborn, D.C. Anderson and Steven Landau, Bart Howard, Harry Chapin, Harold Arlen.
Blue Summer Day (2000)a 2 CD set includes 12 original songs by D.C.(David Cameron) Anderson and Billy Philadelphia, Steven Landau, Stephen Randoy, Rick Snyder as well as songs by Lou and Peter Berryman, Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, Cheryl Wheeler, Christine Lavin...
All is Calm, All is Bright (2001) includes the world premiere recording of Stephen Sondheim and Mary Rodgers' holiday song 'Christmas Island at Christmas Time' as well as 'Hands' and 'Department Stores Mean Christmas to Me' by Anderson and Landau, 'Heaven Can't Be Far' by Lucy Simon and Susan Birkenhead, 'I'm Gonna Be an Angel' by John Kander and Fred Ebb, 'Are You Burning, Little Candle' by Jane Siberry, 'The Rest of the Year' by David Buskin, 'O Joyful Children' by Lee Holdridge, along with favorites 'Silent Night' featuring Claudia Anderson and Jim J. Bullock and 'Infant Holy'.
Collected (2002)songs from 'Time Was' and 'Blue Summer Day' and four previously unreleased tracks including 'After the Funeral' by D.C. and Steven Landau, Cherly Wheeler's 'Beyond the Lights', and Mary Huckins (of DAKOTA BLONDE) 'Something Simple'
Ballad (2004) 11 original songs - lyrics by D.C., music by Carol Hall, Roy Zimmerman, Stephen Randoy, Elizabeth Doyle, and others
" i am still" (September 15, 2006) 15 original songs - lyrics by D.C., music by Elizabeth Doyle, Roy Zimmerman, David Robison, Geof Packard, Ritt Henn, and others.
"Our Story" (2008) 13 original songs lyrics by D.C. music by Steven Landau, Geoff Packard, Ritt Henn, Adryan Russ, Jeff Rizzo, Michael Gillis. Covers of Roy Zimmerman's 'You' and Bryce Kulak's 'Tin Can Telephone'