Barbara Walsh was born on June 3,1955 and is an American musical theatre actress who has appeared in several prominent Broadway productions.
28 Facts About Barbara Walsh
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Barbara Walsh grew up with seven siblings in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Barbara Walsh attended Georgetown Visitation, an all-girls Catholic high school, and began performing in musicals at a local boys' high school.
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Barbara Walsh then attended Montgomery College, where she studied drama and music.
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Barbara Walsh is known for her role as Trina in the Tony Award-winning original Broadway production of William Finn and James Lapine's Falsettos.
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Barbara Walsh first performed in the role in the production directed by Graciela Daniele at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut in 1990, the first staging of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland as a single show.
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Barbara Walsh then remained in the role when Falsettos went to Broadway.
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Barbara Walsh received a Tony Award nomination, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and a Los Angeles Ovation Award for the role.
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Barbara Walsh later reprised this role for the show's national tour in 1994.
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Barbara Walsh appeared on Broadway in 1993 in Blood Brothers, originating the role of Mrs Lyons.
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In 1996, Barbara Walsh played Mrs Baskin in the original production of Big.
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Barbara Walsh played Joanne in the 2006 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
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Barbara Walsh performed Off-Broadway in Forbidden Broadway in the mid-1980s, parodying figures such as Barbra Streisand and Bernadette Peters.
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Regionally, Barbara Walsh has been seen in Houdini in 1997 and Exactly Like You in 1998 at Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.
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Barbara Walsh starred in Gretna Theatre's 1997 production of A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois.
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Barbara Walsh replaced Donna Bullock in the role of Mother in the Chicago cast of Ragtime in 1998.
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Barbara Walsh played Pfeni Rosensweig in the Wendy Wasserstein play The Sisters Rosensweig at New Jersey's George Street Playhouse in 2002.
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In 2006, Barbara Walsh played Joanne in John Doyle's production of Company at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, a role she reprised when the production later transferred to Broadway.
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Barbara Walsh appeared in A Little Night Music in 2008 as Desiree Armfeldt at Center Stage in Baltimore.
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Barbara Walsh played the dual roles of Edith Beale and her daughter Little Edie in Grey Gardens in 2008 at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC In 2009 she played Maria Callas in Paper Mill Playhouse's Master Class.
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Barbara Walsh was cast in First Wives Club at the Old Globe Theatre in 2009.
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Barbara Walsh performed in Capital Repertory Theatre's 33 Variations in 2010.
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Barbara Walsh starred in George Street Playhouse's 2010 production of Creating Claire.
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Barbara Walsh played Sonia in Center Stage's 2014 production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
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Presto Change-O opened May 18,2016, with Barbara Walsh playing the role of Mary.
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In March 2017, Barbara Walsh portrayed Eliza Hamilton and Hillary Clinton in the Mohammed Fairouz opera The New Prince at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
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Barbara Walsh played Hannah Pitt and others in the Actors Theatre of Louisville's October 2017 production of Angels in America.
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Barbara Walsh is married to Jack Cummings III, the artistic director of Transport Group Theatre Company.