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Being Alive is Alexandra's Debut CD. produced in 2000, "Being Alive" recieved critcal praise nationwide, while appearing on several top ten CD lists. It was on the top ten on Amazon.com for a record 10 weeks, and was up for Grammy consideration for that year.
Alexandra’s nightclub act has traveled from Chicago to New York, to Santa Fe New Mexico, to Palm Springs. Sometimes all in one evening. In her hometown she has sung at the Park West, The Cultural Center, Pops For Champagne, The Gentry (on Rush, State, and Halsted Streets), Piano Man, The Royal George Cabaret, Toulouse on the Park, Davenports, Andy’s, and at The Empire Room for the Chicago leg of Donald Smith’s Cabaret Convention.
She’s shared the stage with Amanda McBroom, David Friedman, Stephen Schwartz, Hollis Resnik, Sue Conaway, Nan Mason, the vivacious Honey West, John Herrera, Julie Wilson, Audrey Morris, and the groovy, hip, and swingin’ Karen Mason. In 2000, she won the After Dark Award for Outstanding Cabaret Artist of the Year. In New York she could be seen at Eighty Eights, Don’t Tell Mama’s, and at Arci’s Place for Cabaret on the Record. In 2002, she received the New York MAC Hanson Award, for New Cabaret Artist. She was thrilled to be over 40, and be called “new”.
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