Stage Struck

Former Michigander Randi Kaye performs
in "42nd Street" at Macomb Center.

tours, we have to redo our pauses
because of that."
Kaye, the daughter of Helen and
Charles Kaye, was encouraged to
andi Kaye's favorite lullaby
has nothing to do with going develop her vocal abilities by pater-
nal grandmother Frances Kaye, a
to sleep. Instead, the song
Florida resident who sang in Detroit
has everything to do with an ener-
opera. Kaye's parents were influential
getic awakening. -
through their participation in com-
Kaye's tune is "Lullaby of
munity productions, and she went
Broadway," and she performs it on
tour as a cast member of 42nd Street. on to take private singing lessons as
a teen.
The show will run Jan. 21-22 at the
Although Kaye has worked as a
Macomb Center for the Performing
waitress and restaurant hostess
Arts.
between shows, she
"I like the old-
is pleased with the
school musicals, the
number of opportu-
big, silly shows with
nities she has had,
lots of tap dancing,"
including appear-
says Kaye, 25, who
ances in A Chorus
grew up in West
Line, Crazy for You,
Bloomfield and had
Sugar Babies and
her bat mitzvah at
George M, touring
Temple Israel. "I play
to
mid-Michigan
Phyllis, a friend of
with the last one.
the main character, a
The dancer-singer
chorus girl who
also has worked in a
winds up as the lead
small production at
in the show within
a New York jazz
the show. I'm in all
club and in a dance
the ensemble num-
program featuring
bers, including
the music of Duke
`We're in the Money.'
Ellington.
"The song 'Lullaby
Randi Kaye: Dreaming o
"When I'm in a
of Broadway' res-
Broadway
show,
I exercise
onates with me
before
going
because it voices
onstage," Kaye says.
what I'm thinking
"When I'm between shows, I take
about the stage. My goal is to work
dance classes."
on Broadway. I'm not very energetic
Before deciding to move to New
until the second the curtain comes
York,
Kaye took classes at Eastern
up, and then I just get into the
Michigan University, where she met
mood of the musical."
her boyfriend, Bryce Kaufman, a ski
Kaye, a graduate of Bloomfield
instructor in Switzerland.
Hills Andover High School who
"I'm very proud of this production
studied dance at Annette and
of 42nd Street," Kaye says. "My
Company School of Dance before
mom is bringing about 40 people to
entering the American Musical and
see it." ❑
Dramatic Academy in New York
City, is in her third production of
42nd Street. She performed it
throughout Europe and Japan before
42nd Street will be performed 8
p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, and 2 and 8
taking it around the United States.
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, at the
"I've found that cultures react dif-
Macomb Center for the
ferently to shows," says Kaye, now a
Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield
New Yorker whose tour ends in
June. "In Japan, for instance, they
Road, in Clinton Township. $40-
don't do a lot of clapping until the
$45. (586) 286-2222.
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