League of Professional Theatre Women presents:

Oral History: Tony Award-Winning Actress Judy Kaye interviewed by Award-Winning Actor and Writer Donald Corren

Monday, May 11, 2015, 6:00PM

Bruno Walter Auditorium

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

65th Street & Amsterdam Avenue

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This program is produced by Betty Corwin and Ludovica Villar-Hauser.

This program is made possible, in part, with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The Oral History program enjoys continued support from The Edith Meisner Foundation.

Judy Kaye recently appeared on Broadway as the Fairy Godmother in CINDERELLA . She also appeared on Broadway in NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT for which she won the TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards. She won her first TONY for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Other highlights of her career include SOUVENIR (TONY nomination, Theatre LA Ovation Award as Best Actress), MAMMA MIA (TONY, Drama Desk nominations), RAGTIME (Theatre LA Ovation Award), ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk nomination), Ms. Kaye has also been Mrs. Lovett in a number of productions of SWEENEY TODD including the most recent Broadway production and National Tour and in London with the original Sweeney, Len Cariou. Others include ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, GYPSY, FOLLIES,AND TALES OF THE CITY.

Dramatic credits include productions of SOUVENIR in ten cities around the country, LOST IN YONKERS at the Old Globe in San Diego and Arizona Theatre Company in Tucson and Phoenix. Other roles include Maggie in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, Penny in YOU CAN’T TAKE ITWITH YOU, SHIRLEY VALENTINE, and Kitty Dean in THE ROYAL FAMILY.

Opera credits include LA BOHEME, ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, and THE BEGGARS OPERA; all for Santa Fe Opera and BRIGADOON, CANDIDE, and THE PAJAMA GAME for New York City Opera.

Ms. Kaye has appeared with the New York Festival Of Song many times; FATS AND FIELDS, LOST TRIBES OF VAUDEVILLE, among many others and in the Grammy winning recording of Leonard Bernstein’s ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES. She has performed in concert with many of the world’s greatest orchestras and has sung at the White House twice. Ms. Kaye is also the voice of Kinsey Milhone for Random House Audio’s recordings of the Sue Grafton Alphabet Mysteries, of which W IS FOR WASTED is the most recent release. For more visit www.Judykaye.com.

Donald Corren created the role of Cosme McMoon opposite Judy Kaye’s Florence Foster Jenkins in the original Broadway production of SOUVENIR, directed by Vivian Matalon. Also on Broadway, he starred in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy, a performance which earned him both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Drama Critics’ Circle Awards while on tour. Off-Broadway appearances include The Fantasticks, Old Jews Telling Jokes, The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night and the original NY production of Tomfoolery.

Trained at Juilliard, his most recent regional appearances have included The Fabulous Lipitones at George Street Playhouse and My Fair Lady at The Guthrie Theatre, as well as Superior Donuts (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Black Comedy (Pioneer Theatre Company), The Two Gentlemen of

Verona and The Winter’s Tale (The Shakespeare Theatre), Animal Crackers (Arena Stage), and A Life in the Theatre (The Goodman Theatre). From 1991-99, Donald was Forensic Technician Medill on NBC’s “Law & Order” and has appeared on “Rescue Me”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, and “Law & Order: Trial by Jury.” This season, he joined the castIntent”, and “Law & Order: Trial by Jury.” This season, he joined the cast of Syfy Channel’s zombie adventure series, ZNation. For more information, please visit www.donaldcorren.com.