Sunday, October 25, 2020

Musical actress Leslie Kritzer

Leslie Kritzer is another star of the musical stage, like Megan Hilty.


A 1999 graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, she has a laundry list of  Broadway credits to her name, such as a role in Hairspray, Serena in the musical version of the movie Legally Blonde, and Janey Hurley in A Catered Affair, based on the 1956 movie of the same title.  Janey Hurley was played by Debbie Reynolds in the film. 

Ms. Krtizer has even garnered attention playing Broadway legend Patti LuPone in the one-woman re-creation of Ms. LuPone's nightclub act - Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches.  Far from being a ripoff of the real thing, it got Ms. Kritzer the Special Achievement MAC Award for 2007.


As she had grown up in Livingston, New Jersey, it seems appropriate that  she would be connected with a world premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse in nearby Millburn - the first staging, in 2017,  of The Honeymooners, a musical based on the legendary 1950s sitcom of that name, in which she played Alice Kramden.   Also, at Paper Mill Playhouse, she has played storied roles such as Betty Rizzo in Grease and the legendary Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.  

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