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TARI KELLY
(
Millie Dillmount
) is pleased to be
The William & Kerry Holekamp Star Performer
for
Thoroughly Modern
Millie
. She is excited to
return to The Muny having
last appeared here in the
2003 production of
Show
Boat
(Ellie). Audiences may
recognize her from her
performances at Stages
St. Louis, which include
Promises, Promises
(Fran
Kubelik) and
The Drowsy Chaperone
(Janet
Van De Graaf ). Recently she spent a year in
the Tony® Award-winning revival of
Anything
Goes
on Broadway, where she understudied and
performed the role of Reno Sweeney more than
50 times. Other Broadway/National Tour credits
include
Little Shop of Horrors
(Audrey),
Cabaret
(Sally Bowles),
Show Boat
(Ellie),
The Boy From
Oz
(Trio, u/s Liza Minnelli),
How the Grinch
Stole Christmas
(Mama Who), and
Beauty and
the Beast
(Silly Girl, u/s Babette). Some of her
favorite regional credits are
Anything Goes
(Reno
Sweeney - 2011 Carbonell Award Winner),
Thoroughly Modern Millie
(Millie - Jeff Award
Nomination),
Once Upon a Mattress
(Winnifred),
Chicago
(Velma Kelly), and
White Christmas
(Judy Haynes). Additionally, she can be heard on
the original Broadway cast recordings of
The Boy
From Oz
and
Anything Goes
(revival). Visit her
website at www.tarikelly.com
LESLIE UGGAMS
(
Muzzy
) is pleased to be
The Don Fassold Star Performer
for
Thoroughly
Modern Millie
. Leslie’s
career has brought her
from Harlem (Uptown) to
Broadway (Downtown), the
big screen (
Skyjacked
) to
television (
The Leslie Uggams
Show
). Perhaps best known
for her stirring portrayal of
“Kizzy” in the landmark
TV mini-series Alex Haley’s
Roots
(Critics Choice Award, Emmy® and Golden
Globe® nominations), Ms. Uggams has performed
to critical and popular acclaim ever since her first
professional appearances at the age of nine at
the famed Apollo Theater. There she opened for
such musical legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella
Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. On Broadway,
Ms. Uggams made her musical theater debut
starring in
Hallelujah, Baby!
, earning both Tony®
and Theater World Awards. Since then she has
starred on Broadway in
Blues in the Night
,
Jerry’s
Girls
,
Anything Goes
,
Thoroughly Modern Millie
,
and most recently
On Golden Pond
opposite James
Earl Jones. Ms. Uggams’ vibrant television career
began at the age of six portraying Ethel Waters’
niece on the TV series
Beulah
. As a teenager she
famously won a $12,500 college scholarship on
Name That Tune
, and as a regular on
Sing Along
with Mitch
she was the first African-American
performer to be featured on a weekly national
primetime television series. In 1970 she hosted
her own primetime variety series,
The Leslie
Uggams Show
. Later starring roles included her
award-winning portrayal in Alex Haley’s
Roots
,
the miniseries
Backstairs at the White House
, The
HBO special
Christmas at Radio City Music Hall
,
and her Emmy®-winning duties as co-host of the
NBC-TV series
Fantasy
. She continues to guest
star on dramatic series with recent appearances
on
The Good Wife
and
Memphis Beat,
and the
upcoming series
The 2-2
.
BETH LEAVEL
(
Mrs. Meers
) is thrilled to be
back at her summer home away from home where
she was last seen as Miss
Hannigan in
Annie.
Beth
received Tony®, Drama
Desk, NY Outer Critics
Circle and L.A. Drama
Critics Awards for her
performance as the title
character in
The Drowsy
Chaperone
. Beth also received
a Tony®, Drama Desk, and
Outer Critics Circle nomination for her role as
Florence Greenberg in
Baby It’s You.
She recently
performed the role of M’Lynn in
Steel Magnolias
at the North Carolina Theatre and the much put-
upon maid, Berthe, in
Boeing-Boeing
at Paper
Mill Playhouse. Other Broadway roles: Emily
in
Elf
, Donna in
Mamma Mia!,
Frau Blucher in
Young Frankenstein
, Dorothy Brock in the revival
of
42
nd
Street,
Tess in the original company of
Crazy For You
, Mrs. Bixby in
The Civil War,
Ellie in Hal Prince’s
Show Boat,
and Anytime
Annie (her Broadway debut) in
42
nd
Street
.
Ms. Leavel was also seen in the New York City
Center Encores! production of
No, No, Nanette
as
Lucille. Numerous Off-Broadway, regional
theatre, commercials, and TV, including the final
episode of
ER
. MFA from UNC-G. Proud mom
to T.J. and Sam. Grateful to my boys @ BRS.
P
AH L
P
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SUMMER PROGRAM 2012