"Broadway, the show made its North American debut at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto for a limited 12-week tryout. The original cast included Will Swenson as Tick/Mitzi, Tony Sheldon, again, reprising his role of Bernadette, and Nick Adams as Adam/Felicia. Choreography is by Ross Coleman, set design by Brian Thomson, lighting design by Nick Schlieper and costume designs by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner. Producers include Bette Midler, who joined the production team after seeing the West End production; Liz Koops and Garry McQuinn for Back Row Productions; Michael Hamlyn for Specific Films; Allan Scott Productions; David Mirvish;"
"Priscilla Lopez Priscilla Lopez (born February 26, 1948) is an American singer, dancer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for creating the role of Diana Morales in ""A Chorus Line"". She has had the distinction of appearing in two Broadway landmarks: one of its greatest hits, the highly acclaimed, long-running ""A Chorus Line"", and, as a teenager, in one of its biggest flops, the infamous musical version of ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", which closed before opening night. Lopez was born in the Bronx, New York to Francisco Lopez, a hotel banquet foreman and Laura (née Candelaria), who had moved to"
"Linda Balgord Linda Balgord is an American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 United States tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Sunset Boulevard"", being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of ""Cats"" and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I in ""The Pirate Queen"" on Broadway. She has also played the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"", previously in the restaged North American tour, and currently on Broadway. Balgord was raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, and graduated from New Lisbon High"
"producers, of which Stritch was not one). The stage performance of observations and songs from her life in theatre would later be the focus of D. A. Pennebaker's 2004 documentary ""Elaine Stritch at Liberty"", which as well as the Emmy for Stritch, also won its producers the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995. Sources: FilmReference.com; Internet Broadway Database; TCM Elaine Stritch Elaine Stritch (February 2, 1925 – July 17, 2014) was an American actress and singer, known for her work on Broadway. She made"
"and summaries of her singing and acting accomplishments. Honorary awards Betty Buckley Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American actress and singer. She won the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of ""Cats"". She went on to play Norma Desmond in ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1994–96) in both London and New York, receiving a 1995 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and was nominated for the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for ""Triumph of Love"". Her other Broadway"
"Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg Princess Tatiana Desirée von Fürstenberg (""Tatiana Desirée Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg""; February 16, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, film writer, director and producer. Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg was born on February 16, 1971 in New York City to fashion designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg. On her mother's side she is of Jewish Moldovan, and Jewish Greek descent. On her father's side she is of German and Italian descent, and a member of the House of Fürstenberg. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg and Clara Agnelli, the elder sister of"
"Emily Padgett Emily Padgett (born September 20, 1984) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is known for her work on Broadway as Daisy Hilton in ""Side Show"" and Sherrie Christian in ""Rock of Ages"", as well as for originating the roles of Lucy Grant in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's ""Bright Star"", and Mrs. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Padgett was born in Danbury, Connecticut, but moved to Lewisville, North Carolina in 1986 when she was two. Her love for musical theatre started at an early age when her parents would go to New York City"
"Rebecca Luker Rebecca Luker (born April 17, 1961) is an American actress, singer and recording artist who has appeared in several musical theatre productions on Broadway. Luker's voice type is soprano. ""The New York Times"" has compared her to actresses such as Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards and two Drama Desk Awards, and she is featured on opera star Plácido Domingo's recording, ""The Broadway I Love"" (1991). Luker was born in Helena, Alabama, the daughter of a high school treasurer and a construction worker. She attended the University of Montevallo, earning a"
"the Park with George"" at New York City Center. From January 2017, she played Opal in the new musical ""Because of Winn Dixie"" at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She is set to play the title role in the 2018 series ""Butterbean's Café"". Pizzolo lives in upstate New York with her parents and younger sister. Her mother, Natalie, is a teacher who homeschooled her when she was in Matilda. Gabriella Pizzolo Gabriella Grace Pizzolo (born March 10, 2003) is an American child actress and singer, who is known for her performances on Broadway in ""Matilda the Musical"" and ""Fun Home"". Pizzolo"
"returned to CLO for their production of ""Singin' in the Rain"" where she played the role of Lina Lamont. From November 7, 2017 to Jan 14, 2018 Spencer held the role of Polly Baker in Crazy for You (musical) at Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia). Spencer played one of the Divas in the Broadway production of ""Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert"", which opened in March 2011 at the Palace Theatre. The show also had a pre-Broadway tryout beginning October 12, 2010 at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. She took over the role of Sherrie in the Broadway production of"
"Betty Buckley Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American actress and singer. She won the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of ""Cats"". She went on to play Norma Desmond in ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1994–96) in both London and New York, receiving a 1995 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and was nominated for the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for ""Triumph of Love"". Her other Broadway credits include ""1776"" (1969), ""Pippin"" (1973), and ""The Mystery of"
"Novella Nelson Novella Christine Nelson (December 17, 1938 – August 31, 2017) was an American actress and singer. She established her career as a singer, both on the off-Broadway and Broadway stage and in cabaret-style locales. Starting in 1961, Nelson had a decades-long stage career, performing, directing and producing, primarily in New York. She was a featured performer on Broadway in 1970 in the musical ""Purlie"". In 1975, Nelson directed the play ""La Femme Noire"" at The Public Theater. Her film career began at age 39 with a small part in 1977's ""An Unmarried Woman"", and continued for the next"
"Demas presently resides in Westchester County with her husband, Stuart Allyn. Carole Demas Carole Demas (born 26 May 1940, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress and singer, best known for originating the roles of Sandy in the 1971 Broadway musical ""Grease"" and the title role in the original 1976 production of ""The Baker's Wife"", for many prime time television roles, hundreds of commercials, and for her role in the long-running children's television show ""The Magic Garden"". The winding path of Carole’s career, highlighted in Schirmer, Citadel and Applause Books chronicling the trials and triumphs of Broadway, has taken her"
"Helena Bliss Helena Bliss (December 31, 1917 – April 19, 2014) was an American actress and singer. A talented soprano, she actively performed in musicals, operettas, and operas in the United States, both on stage and on television and radio, from the 1930s through the 1950s. She is best known for her portrayal of Nina Hagerup in the original Broadway production of Robert Wright and George Forrest's ""Song of Norway"". She also appeared successfully in a few productions on London's West End. Helena Bliss was born as Helena Louise Lipp in St. Louis, Missouri on December 31, 1917. Her parents"
"Brettina Brettina Lorena Robinson (born December 8, 1976) is a Bahamian jazz singer-songwriter, model, and SAG actress, who lives in metropolitan Los Angeles. Brettina was born in Nassau, the Bahamas. She moved to Chicago with her family while she was a toddler when her mother, gospel-singer/actress Leona Coakley Spring, began acting on the popular stage plays ""The Crucible,"" and ""The Other Cinderella."" Brettina moved back to the Bahamas during her school years. Brettina began singing at age four, under the influence of her mother, as well as Theo and Kirk Coakley of the popular 1970 Funk/Soul group T-Connection. While attending"
"Bernadette Peters Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara; February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two (plus an honorary award), and nine Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works"
"Emily Skinner Emily Skinner (also known as Emily Scott Skinner) is a Tony-nominated American stage actress and singer. She has played leading roles in such Broadway productions as ""Prince of Broadway"", ""Side Show"", ""Jekyll & Hyde"", ""James Joyce's The Dead"", ""The Full Monty"", ""Dinner at Eight"", ""Billy Elliot"", as well as the Actor's Fund Broadway concerts of ""Dreamgirls"" and ""The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"". She has sung on concert stages around the world and on numerous recordings. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Skinner later attended college at Carnegie Mellon University. She moved to New York in 1992 and originated roles"
"married in 2002. They divorced in 2014. In 2010, von Fürstenberg had an editing studio built in her Los Feliz home. She also owns the former home of Norman Mailer in Provincetown. Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg Princess Tatiana Desirée von Fürstenberg (""Tatiana Desirée Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg""; February 16, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, film writer, director and producer. Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg was born on February 16, 1971 in New York City to fashion designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg. On her mother's side she is of Jewish Moldovan, and Jewish Greek descent. On her"
"Priscilla Lee Presson Priscilla Lee Presson (""born 1980"") is an American actress, musician, director, writer, and producer best known for her roles in underground B horror and comedy films. Presson has collaborated with the film collective of ""Gonzoriffic"" based in the Atlanta Georgia area in many films, as well as co-created Niha pictures with fellow ""Gonzoriffic"" alumni Kert Rats. Presson spent most of her youth active in theater, acting in many plays and competed in regional and state competitions in the State of Georgia both for acting and singing. She was awarded the prestigious ""National School Choral Award"" in 1997"
"Priscilla Dean Priscilla Dean (November 25, 1896 – December 27, 1987) was an American actress popular in silent film as well as in theatre, with a career spanning two decades. She was born on November 25, 1896 in Manhattan, New York City to an active theatrical family. Her mother was popular stage actress Mary Preston Dean, Priscilla Dean made her stage debut at the age of four, appearing in plays starring her parents. From then on, she pursued her stage career at the same time as being educated at a convent school until the age of fourteen. Following her leave"
"Lisa Brescia Lisa Brescia (born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American musical theatre actress who has performed as lead and understudy in several Broadway shows. Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she went on to pursue acting and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. On August 7, 2018, Brescia began a run as Heidi Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway, a role that earned Rachel Bay Jones the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Brescia was lead singer in The New Mamas and The Papas from 1993 to 1998 with original members John"
"Leslie Kritzer Leslie Kritzer (born May 24, 1977) is an American singer and musical theatre actress. Kritzer was born in Manhattan and raised in Livingston, New Jersey. Her father is Jewish and her mother is of Puerto Rican ancestry. Kritzer was raised Catholic. A 1999 graduate of the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music, she has appeared on Broadway in ""Hairspray"" and was the character Serena in ""Legally Blonde The Musical"". Off-Broadway she was seen in ""The Great American Trailer Park Musical"", """" and ""Godspell"", and her regional credits include ""Vanities"" (Kathy), ""Babes in Arms"" (Baby Rose), and both"
"Jacquelyn Piro Donovan Jacquelyn Piro Donovan is an American actress and singer known for her work in broadway musicals and on the concert stage. She is perhaps best known for the distinction of being the only actress to portray both the young innocent Cosette and the tragic heroine Fantine in the original Broadway production of ""Les Misérables"". Donovan was born in Boston and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is the youngest daughter of Anthony J. Piro, an accomplished Medical and Radiation Oncologist and Marian Piro, a special needs teacher. She graduated from Lynnfield High School in Lynnfield, Massachusetts and received"
"the play she took on the role of Berenice, the housekeeper, in ""The Member of the Wedding"" by Carson McCullers. After being on stage in this and other plays, she the future actress changed course becoming a theatre major. Nelson died of cancer on September 1, 2017, aged 78, in her native Brooklyn, New York. Novella Nelson Novella Christine Nelson (December 17, 1938 – August 31, 2017) was an American actress and singer. She established her career as a singer, both on the off-Broadway and Broadway stage and in cabaret-style locales. Starting in 1961, Nelson had a decades-long stage career,"
"Riva Di Paola Riva Marie Di Paola (born January 7) is a Canadian actress. Born in Toronto, Canada to an Italian father and Irish mother, she attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts with a major in theatre. She later studied at New York City's renowned Circle in the Square Theatre School on Broadway. She currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles with her husband, John Vincent Lombardi. As a teenager, she was cast in CBC's highly popular series ""Street Cents"". She has starred in the Off Broadway premier of ""Quake"" by playwright Melanie Marnich; The Dessert"
"Phillipa Soo Phillipa Soo (; born May 31, 1990) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for originating the role of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton in the Broadway musical ""Hamilton"", a performance for which she was nominated for the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her additional stage credits include the role of Natasha Rostova, which Soo originated in a number of New York productions of ""Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812"" in 2012 and 2013, and the title role in ""Amélie"", which Soo originated on Broadway in 2017. Most recently, Soo appeared"
"Rebecca Spencer (singer) Rebecca Spencer is an American singer and actress known for her roles in musicals and on the concert and cabaret stages. Over the course of her career she has performed principal roles in over 50 opera, national tour, regional and Off-Broadway productions. She created the role of Lisa Carew in the world premiere of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll and Hyde at the Alley Theatre, opposite Linda Eder and Chuck Wagner, and premiered the role of Madame Giry in the $35 million production of Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular, under the direction of Harold Prince. Rebecca was born"
"Billie Lynn Daniel Billie Lynn Daniel is an African-American operatic soprano and composer. A winner of several notable vocal competitions, she is best known for her portrayal of Clara in ""Porgy and Bess"" and for her work as an exponent of American art song. She has performed the world premieres of works by composers Richard Hundley, William Flanagan, and Claude Debussy among other composers. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Daniel made her Broadway debut as one of the Female Saints in the revival of Virgil Thomson's ""Four Saints in Three Acts"" with Leontyne Price. She made her"
"in ""Chess the Musical"" at the Signature Theater in 2010. In 2011, she created the role of Grazia in Maury Yeston's ""Death Takes a Holiday"" in the original Off-Broadway production by Roundabout Theatre Company. She was cast in the leading role of ""I"" in the musical ""Rebecca"", which had been scheduled to open on Broadway in November 2012. The production of ""Rebecca"" on Broadway has been postponed. On September 3, 2013, she took over the role of ""Miss Honey"" in the Broadway musical ""Matilda The Musical"". In April, 2015, Paice opened as Milo Davenport in the Broadway musical ""An American"
"Elaine Cancilla Orbach Elaine Cancilla Orbach (January 19, 1940 – April 1, 2009) was an American stage and musical theatre actress and dancer. Orbach, known professionally as Elaine Cancilla, appeared on Broadway and Off Broadway in productions including: ""Fiorello!"", ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"", ""Here's Love"", ""Flora the Red Menace"", ""Sweet Charity"" and ""Cry for Us All"". In 1979 she married actor Jerry Orbach, a star on stage and later of film and television (""Law & Order""). They met several years earlier while appearing together in the original Broadway theatre production of the Kander & Ebb musical,"
"Priscilla Pointer Priscilla Marie Pointer (born May 18, 1924) is an American stage, film and television character actress. She began her career in the theater, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television. She is the mother of Academy Award nominee Amy Irving, therefore making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto and the mother-in-law of documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Jr. Pointer was born in New York City. Her mother, Augusta Leonora (née Davis), was an artist and an illustrator, and her father, Kenneth Keith Pointer, was an"
"Diosa Costello Juana de Dios Castrello, better known as Diosa Costello (April 23, 1913 – June 20, 2013), was an American entertainer, performer, producer and club owner, often referred to as ""the Latin Bombshell"". Costello was born Juana de Dios Castrello y Cruz in Guayama, Puerto Rico on April 23, 1913, although 1917 is often incorrectly sourced. After performing for some time at various venues in Spanish Harlem, she paired with Desi Arnaz at the La Conga club. Her Broadway debut was ""Too Many Girls"" (1939), where she became the first Latina on the Broadway stage. She decided not to"
"Carole Demas Carole Demas (born 26 May 1940, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress and singer, best known for originating the roles of Sandy in the 1971 Broadway musical ""Grease"" and the title role in the original 1976 production of ""The Baker's Wife"", for many prime time television roles, hundreds of commercials, and for her role in the long-running children's television show ""The Magic Garden"". The winding path of Carole’s career, highlighted in Schirmer, Citadel and Applause Books chronicling the trials and triumphs of Broadway, has taken her from her early days as Miss Vermont in The Miss Universe"