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b'ANDR\\xc9A BURNS\\xa0received an Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination for her portrayal of Gloria Fajardo in Broadway\\u2019s On Your Feet! She is a winner of a Drama Desk Award for her creation of the role of Daniela, the saucy hairdresser in the Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights.\\xa0\\nMs. Burns began her career touring the opera houses of Europe as Maria in West Side Story\\xa0when she was 18 years old. She has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney\\u2019s Beauty and the Beast, as Vicki Nichols in The Full Monty, as Googie Gomez in The Ritz\\xa0and has sung concerts at Carnegie Hall. She starred opposite Nathan Lane on Broadway in the Lincoln Center production of The Nance\\xa0which subsequently broadcast on PBS\' "Great Performances". Ms. Burns was in the original company of Jason Robert Brown\\u2019s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World\\xa0and has since become one of the foremost interpreters of his work. Burns portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Jason Robert Brown\'s Parade, directed by Harold Prince, for which she received a Touring Broadway Awards\\xa0nomination for Best Actress.\\xa0She was also selected by Stephen Sondheim\\xa0to create the role of Celeste in his musical Saturday Night\\xa0in its New York premiere.\\xa0\\nMs. Burns\' debut solo album A Deeper Shade Of Red\\xa0was described by Playbill\\xa0as "superb on all counts\\u201d. \\u201c100 Stories," a single she co-wrote with her brother, music producer Mike Burns, rose to the #2 spot on the 2006 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts.\\xa0A favorite at 54 Below Broadway Supper Club,\\xa0Andr\\xe9a performs her one woman show all of over the world, which has been hailed by the New York Times as \\u201c uproarious, ebullient and playful\\u201d.\\nTelevision credits include Mad About You (Reboot), Jessica Jones, Kevin Can Wait,\\xa0Blue Bloods,\\xa0Law & Order: SVU,\\xa0Rescue Me,\\xa0The Electric Company (2009 TV series), and Wonder Pets. She can also be heard on the original cast recordings of On Your Feet!,\\xa0In The Heights,\\xa0Songs for a New World,\\xa0This Ordinary Thursday - The Songs of Georgia Stitt,\\xa0Saturday Night,\\xa0It\\u2019s Only Life,\\xa0Dear Edwina,\\xa0Shine,\\xa0Broadway Bound, and Broadway Musicals of 1953.\\nMs. Burns can be heard as the voice of Elaine Stritch in Alexandra Jacob\\u2019s new biography, \\u201cStill Here - The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch.\\u201d\\xa0\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'