1. Liz Robertson was born on 4 May 1954 and is an English actress and singer and the widow of playwright and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.
10 Facts About Liz Robertson
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Liz Robertson is especially well known for her performances as Madame Giry, having played the role in the original cast of Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre, in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre and in The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Liz Robertson made her Broadway debut in Dance a Little Closer, the disastrous 1983 musical adaptation of Idiot's Delight by Charles Strouse and her husband, Alan Jay Lerner, that closed on opening night.
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Liz Robertson starred in an extensive US tour of The King and I and performed at the Kennedy Center before President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
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Liz Robertson presented her one-woman show, Just Liz, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
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Liz Robertson is a regular performer and part of the original cast of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners.
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Liz Robertson starred in the musical Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre, performing the role of 'Velma Von Tussle'.
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Liz Robertson played the Wicked Queen in the Bristol Hippodrome Pantomime, Snow White from 11 December 2009, and the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at the same for the Christmas 2013 run.
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Liz Robertson is a trustee of The Theatrical Guild, the charity supporting backstage and front of house, and was chairperson from 2005 to 2009.
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Liz Robertson married Alan Jay Lerner in August 1981 in Billingshurst, England.