Legendary Emmy- and Tony-Award winning actress and comedienne Andrea Martin is bringing her hilarious new one-woman show, Final Days! Everything Must Go!! to Newmarket on Thursday, February 10th!
See your favourite SCTV characters, hear your favourite Broadway tunes and listen as Martin reveals way too much about her life, her career and her famous Hollywood friends.
The mom of two boys are now grown men Jack, 29, and Joe, 27, and work in music and entertainment.
Martin introduced her kids to music early on. One of her son’s chose to play saxophone while the other learned the piano. “It was a great gift. Intuitively I knew and wanted them to express themselves creatively and have an outlet.”
Her love for music paid off. “We grew up in Toronto and I used to take them to the Toronto Symphony… to this day, they get their own subscription to the L.A. symphony and opera.”
Martin recently turned 64 and recalls what her sons did for her. “On my birthday they both called me and said in 15 minutes, go on your computer and check your email.” She did, and found a link to YouTube where her sons were in they were Jack’s Los Angeles apartment and they played the sax and piano to “When you’re 64” by the Beatles.
Martin also taught her children about giving back early on. “We had a charity box and every time they had an allowance they put box money and at the end of the year, they would decide what charity to donate to.”
One of Martin’s fondest memories on SCTV was when she did a parody of the Lynn Redgrave sitcom on CBS, House Calls, which she had asserted she was forced off because she wants to breast-feed her 5-week-old daughter, on the set.
“I did a parody of show… we called it “Wet Nurse”. I had huge breasts, where John Candy played my baby but he was 5 feet long and wide. So I had my child on my breasts and he grew up into John Candy.” Watch the funny video below.
When asked if she had any advice about raising kids, Martin said that if she could turn back time, she would enjoy being in the moment more.
“I wish that I wasn’t so anxious about things when my kids were young and wish that I had enjoyed the present moment. Somebody told me when my kids were little, “be careful not to wish their life away”. We tend to spend too much time in the future.”
CONGRATULATIONS to STEPHEN NICHOLS of Tottenham who won a pair of tickets to the show in Newmarket at the Newmarket Theatre for Thursday February 10th!
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