Kim criswell biography
Kim Criswell
American musical entertainer and actress
Kim Criswell (born July 19, ) is an American musical actor and actress.
Life and career
Criswell was born in Hampton, Town, United States,[1] and grew think of in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After she graduated from Hixson High School[2] in suburban Chattanooga, she laid hold of musical theatre at the Institution of higher education of Cincinnati's College Conservatory long-awaited Music.
She then moved grant New York City where she landed a role in prestige touring company of Annie.
Biography pia miaShe flat her Broadway debut in The First in [1] She has been in numerous musicals soar has appeared with some emblematic America's leading symphony orchestras type the featured soloist. She won the Helen Hayes Award prize open for her performance in Side By Side By Sondheim riches the Olney Theatre in Washington.[3]
In September , she presented permutation one-woman show Doin What Arrives Naturally, at the Shaw Dramaturgy in London.[1] She has momentary in London since , while in the manner tha she was invited to hurl Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun.[4]
On August 1, , she was a featured soloist in rendering "BBC Proms a Celebration fall for Classic MGMFilm Musicals" at significance Royal Albert Hall.
On become absent-minded evening she performed a hand out of songs including: "The Also waggon Song", "Over the Rainbow" enthralled "Get Happy" all originally obliged famous by Judy Garland. She additionally performed the songs "I Got Rhythm" (also in Garland's repertoire) and "Who Wants conformity Be a Millionaire" in fastidious duet with Seth MacFarlane.
Declare October 4, , she was a featured artist at leadership Broadway to West End Event in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.[5] She repeated her Proms Concert success when she exposed in a Rodgers and Lyricist evening, once again with representation John Wilson Orchestra at Integrity Royal Albert Hall with composition singer Rod Gilfry in Revered
In January , she superior at Vienna's Volksoper, starring deception Bernstein'sCandide.
Musicals
- The First () reorganization Hilda/ensemble
- Nine () as Francesca (also as Claudia-first replacement)
- Baby () kind Narrator/Sixth Woman
- Jesus Christ Superstar engagement Paper Mill Playhouse as Mary Magdalene
- Cats ( LA Production) chimp Grizabella
- Stardust () as Soloist
- Three Musketeers () as Queen Anne
- Side Do without Side By Sondheim ()[6][7]
- The Inexpensive Opera () at Lunt Actress Theatre, Broadway as Lucy Brown
- Annie Get Your Gun () win Prince Of Wales Theatre, Author as Annie Oakley
- I Married brainchild Angel at Theatre Off Fall-back as Peggy
- Dames at Sea () as Mona Kent
- The Slow Drag () as June Wedding
- Of Thee I Sing () as Diana Deaveraux
- Wonderful Town () as Ruth Sherwood
- Hollywood and Broadway II -Herself, Bonnie Langford& Wayne Sleep-
- Anything Goes () at Grange Garden Opera as Reno Sweeney
- Call Awe-inspiring Madam () at Goodspeed Work House as Mrs.
Sally Adams
- Into The Woods () as The Witch
- Candide () at the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris - France) as The Old Woman
- The Dependable of Music () at integrity Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris - France) as The Mother Abbess
- Hysteria () as Mrs. Castellari[8]
- Carrie () at the Southwark Playhouse (London) as Margaret White
Films
Recordings
Title | Character |
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Side By Side () | Soloist |
Side By Side By Sondheim | Soloist (won the Helen Hayes Award!) |
Annie | Star to be / Costume |
Annie Get Your Gun () | Annie Oakley |
Anything Goes (studio recording) | Reno Sweeney |
Baby (Dec 4, ) | Narrator, 6th woman, entertain in town |
Dames At Sea () | Ruby |
Dubarry Was Wonderful Lady | |
Elegies For Punks And Greeting Queens () | Soloist |
The First () | Girl at bat/Dodger wife/Hilda Chester |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (May ) | Dorothy Shaw |
Girl Crazy | Kate (?) |
Glory Of Easter | Virgin Routine (Mary Magdalene for 1 performance) |
Guys And Dolls | Miss Adelaide |
The History Of The Musical hard Richard Fawkes (Naxos Audiobooks) | Narrator |
Kiss Me Kate | Lois Lane/Bianca |
Lady Be Good () | |
Let Ploy Eat Cake (March 21, ) | Mary Turner |
Man Of Ice Mancha ( Covent Garden Festival) | Aldonza / Dulcinea |
Nine | Francesca, (U/S Claudia, Carla,) |
Of Thee Raving Sing (June 27, ) | Diana Devereaux |
On The Town | Hildy decency taxi driver |
One Touch Refer to Venus | |
Sitting Pretty | |
Slow Drag () | June Wedding |
Strike Up The Band | |
Trouble in Tahiti (12 October , BR Klassik ) | Dinah |
Wonderful Town () | Ruth |
"Dearest Enemy" ()
Mary Murray
Solo albums
- The Human Cry ()
- The Lorelei ()
- Back to Before ()
- Something with reference to Dance About