Acclaimed singer/actor/hoofer Andrew MacDonald-Smith has been a dependably constant presence on Edmonton’s musical and theatrical stages for the last twenty years, and one might be tempted to think he’s spent his whole career here.

In this musical cabaret reminiscence, he reveals that this really isn’t the case, and that before alighting on Alberta’s shores in the early aughts, he’d already been enjoying a decades-long career that took him around the world and involved some truly remarkable musical collaborations.

Among the stories Andrew relates are how he came to be the bridge between the two Berlins–Weimar and Irving, and how he gained access to the songs George Gershwin considered “far too good to be standards”. He’ll tell of time spent in Ivor Novello’s England, Yip Harburg’s America, and William Bolcom’s Academia. And inspired by his recent turn in the Citadel Theatre’s 9 to 5, he revels in a new musical genre: Partonmusik.

All that and much more- a century of music-making in point of fact - presented in collaboration with pianist Frances Thielmann and playwright Stewart Lemoine.