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and the song is right for me.
The "Divas" also will do selections
from Gypsy, Dreamgirls, Sunset
Boulevard and Showboat among many
other stage mainstays.
"It's a lively show and gets audiences
wanting to dance in their seats,"
Friedman says. "For someone like me,
who usually performs a role, the pro-
gram allows me to be more free."
Performing music from Broadway
isn't what Friedman anticipated when
she knew she wanted to be a profes-
sional singer at age 15. Although she
wished to be a pop singer in the style
of Whitney Houston, her voice

ea Woods Friedman, born
and raised in Hawaii,
remembers the first snowfall
she ever saw. The young
Friedman was visiting her late paternal
grandparents, Jean (nee Cohen) and
Harry Friedman, at their Southfield
home and had fun building snow stat-
ues and throwing snowballs.
As she grew up, Friedman got to
know the Michigan countryside in
summer. She attended Interlochen
Arts Academy to develop her singing
and violin skills, and along the
way, made lifelong friends with
fellow campers.
Friedman soon will get to see
the Detroit area in the foliage of
spring and experience a new kind
of fun in the company of her
work family. She will be one of
five singers appearing with the
Detroit Symphony Pops in a trib-
ute to the hits made famous by
some of Broadway's greatest
female stars.
"Broadway Divas," in its sec-
ond tour stop, will be showcased
May 15-18 at Orchestra Hall,
and also features Anne
RunOlfsson, Virginia Woodruff,
Christine Pedi and Jenny Rose
Baker, all with extensive stage
experience.
Maestro Jack Everly, principal
Lea Woods Friedman: Looking forward to
pops conductor of the
her performances and a family reunion.
Indianapolis Symphony, is music
adviser for the Symphony Pops
teacher advised her that she was better
Consortium, an alliance formed by
suited for opera.
several orchestras, including the
"It wasn't what I wanted to hear, but
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to pro-
it's grown on me," says Friedman,
duce new presentations.
daughter of former Detroiter Sanford.
He has conducted Broadway and
Friedman. "I soon started training
touring musicals, such as The Goodbye
classically."
Girl starring Bernadette Peters.
The vocalist, who got a degree in
"I love the energy of the pieces,"
hotel administration from Cornell
says Friedman, 27, who will sing "I
University as a practical matter, stud-
Could Have Danced All Night" from
ied opera in Europe for three years
My Fair Lady, "'Ti! There Was You"
after graduating from college. She was
from The Music Man and "Musetta"
advised that her voice would be good
from La Boheme in addition to being
for Italian opera, so she went to Italy
part of many medleys.
to learn technique and the language.
"The maestro who arranged this
Among her experiences were six
program is very kind and knows me as
months of training at an academy,
an opera singer. He threw in `Musetta'
where there were master classes, per-
because La Boheme is on Broadway