Judy Kaye was born on October 11,1948 and is an American singer and actress.
27 Facts About Judy Kaye
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Judy Kaye has appeared in stage musicals, plays, and operas.
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Judy Kaye was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the daughter of Shirley Edith and Jerome Joseph Judy Kaye, a physician.
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Judy Kaye started out as a mezzo and now sings all the way up to an E natural.
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Judy Kaye made her Broadway debut as a replacement Rizzo in the original company of Grease in the 1970s.
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Judy Kaye's next show was the Broadway musical On the Twentieth Century, playing only the small role of the maid Agnes, and the understudy for leading lady Madeline Kahn.
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Kahn left the show early in the run, and Judy Kaye took over the lead role.
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Judy Kaye was featured in the 1987 concert version of the rarely produced musical Magdalena.
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In 1988, Judy Kaye returned to Broadway as Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera, She won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for this role.
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Judy Kaye was the only principal to remain with that show for its entire run, where she showcased her remarkable range as she sang the Goldman alto part while hitting the B5 high note in the opening prologue.
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Judy Kaye appeared in Lost in Yonkers in 2011 as Grandma Kurnitz at the Arizona Theatre Company in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Judy Kaye appeared in Stephen Temperley's Souvenir and "drew raves for her humorous, yet touching work" with her portrayal of the legendarily bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins.
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In June 2006, Judy Kaye assumed the role of Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd on Broadway for one week during Patti LuPone's vacation.
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Judy Kaye returned in August 2006, when LuPone left for a week to play "Rose" in Gypsy.
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Judy Kaye appeared in the musical adaption of Tales of the City at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California, from May through July 2011, as Anna Madrigal.
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Judy Kaye starred in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, which opened on Broadway in April 2012.
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Judy Kaye won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for this role.
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From February to October 2016, Judy Kaye performed the role of Madame Morrible in the Broadway production of Wicked.
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Judy Kaye then took over the role of the Dowager Empress in the Broadway production of Anastasia from September 2018 through January 2019.
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On November 17,2021, Judy Kaye opened in the Broadway production of Diana, The Musical at the Longacre Theater.
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Judy Kaye plays the roles of Queen Elizabeth II and the novelist Barbara Cartland, who was Princess Diana's step-grandmother.
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Judy Kaye appeared in concert at The Town Hall, New York, in Eileen and Sweethearts and Sweet Adeline.
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Judy Kaye debuted the role of Abbie in the premiere of composer Edward Thomas' musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, presented by the New York Opera Repertory Theater in 1989.
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Judy Kaye performed the title role in The Merry Widow at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 1991.
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Judy Kaye has appeared with opera companies and orchestras such as the Santa Fe Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Judy Kaye is featured on six tracks of John McGlinn's EMI disc Broadway Showstoppers, four of them numbers from Jerome Kern's Sweet Adeline and one a first-ever recording of the "Duet for One ", the tour-de-force from Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Judy Kaye is the voice for the audiobooks of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series.