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June 15 2006
Among the shows represented
by the entire troupe will be Les
Special to the Jewish News
Miserables, Gypsy, West Side Story
and Show Boat.
ebbie Gravitte did not appear
"The three of us in this concert do
in the touring production
quite a few concerts together during
of Wicked recently staged
the year as well as our own concerts
in Detroit, but she introduced one of
and lots of other things:' says Gravitte,
its showstoppers in concert, used the
who volunteers to help direct holiday
number as the title song of her latest
programs in her Connecticut commu-
recording and will feature her rendi-
nity and includes Chanukah music.
tion in an upcoming performance in
"Some of the songs we're planning
Ann Arbor.
for Ann Arbor have personal stories
Gravitte, who won the 1989 Tony
or something funny or great to be
Award for Best Featured Actress
said, and we say all that. There's not
in a Musical in Jerome Robbins'
a through-line, but the sequence
Broadway, will be one of three sing-
makes sense because one song follows
ers in Bravo Broadway! Vocalists
another for particular reasons.
Doug LaBrecque and Christiane
"I'll probably sing 'If He Walked
Noll and guest conductor Randall
Into My Life' from Maine. It's the
Craig Fleischer with the Ann Arbor
song of the love between a woman
Symphony Orchestra join her onstage. and a young boy becoming a man.
The concert, devoted to hits origi-
It really hits home because I have
nating in a variety of shows, takes
two sons, and one is on the cusp of
place 8 p.m. Saturday, June 17, at the
becoming a man."
Power Center. It is part of the Ann
Gravitte, who has sung Broadway
Arbor Summer Festival.
hits on different PBS specials, started
working on stage in California. After
Tony Winner
winning a role in Annie Get Your-
"I live in the same town as Stephen
Gun with Debbie Reynolds and Harve
Schwartz, the man who wrote
Presnell, she was encouraged to audi-
Wicked, and I was doing concerts
tion for a show being planned in New
with him at the piano," says Gravitte,
York by members of the California
who years ago appeared with Anthony creative team.
Quinn in Zorba at the Masonic
Although that second show did
Temple Theatre. "Stephen asked me
not take off, she was able to get an
to introduce 'Defying Gravity, and
agent and went on to find parts in
sure enough, it became a hit. The
They're Playing Our Song, Swing
Jewish vocalist will perform "Defying
and Perfectly Frank. She met her
Gravity" during Bravo Broadway!
husband, actor Beau Gravitte, while
She'll also sing 'Memory' from Cats.
appearing in a theater piece featuring
"I didn't like the song until I started
the music of Carole King.
singing it, and now I love it," she says.
"I won the Tony Award while I was
"Another song I'll be doing is All That
still using my maiden name, Shapiro,"
Jazz' from Chicago."
Gravitte says. "That's how a lot of
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