1. Carol Woods was born on November 13,1943 and is an American actress and singer.
12 Facts About Carol Woods
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Carol Woods is best known for her roles in Sweet and Lowdown, The Honeymooners and Across the Universe.
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Carol Woods remained on tour with the show through June 2010, returning to the Broadway production in July.
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Carol Woods is recording material for a new CD titled Blues in the Night.
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Carol Woods made a special guest appearance in the 2002 One Mo Time revival as Ma Reed.
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Carol Woods was nominated for an Olivier Award for her role in the 1987 London production of Blues in the Night, which led to a NYC run at the Minetta Lane Theater, and in 2008 reprised the role in a San Francisco production.
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Carol Woods left Big River in 1987 to play Rose in the Tommy Tune-directed play Stepping Out.
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At the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, Woods appeared in C'mon and Hear: Irving Berlin's America, A Christmas Carol, Greensboro: A Requiem.
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At Montclair State University in 1992 Carol Woods repeated the starring role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which she had played in London's Royal National Theatre three years earlier.
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Carol Woods reprised her stage role of Rose in Stepping Out, based on the play of the same name, with Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Bill Irwin and Jane Krakowski.
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Carol Woods is featured in Steam as Ella, with Ruby Dee, and in When the Evening Comes.
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Carol Woods appears on the Cast Albums of Grind, The Goodbye Girl and Blues In The Night.