Judy Kaye
UCLA 1966-1971
SHE'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TYPECAST.
On stage and in the recording studio, Judy Kaye brings her considerable voice and acting talent to totally contradictory roles. She’s the tuneful singer Musetta in La Boheme and the excruciatingly tone-deaf Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir. As Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, she bakes murder victims in pies. As the Fairy Godmother, she transforms Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. It all started when she was a UCLA student and won the role of Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Then came the national tour of Grease, playing tough girl Betty Rizzo. The roles have never stopped. On Broadway, Kaye is a two-time Tony Award winner, for The Phantom of the Opera (1988) and Gershwin’s Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012).