Kim Crosby (singer)
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Kim Crosby is an American singer and actress, primarily on the stage and in concerts. She was the original Cinderella in the Sondheim-Lapine musical Into the Woods
, where she met her now-husband Robert Westenberg
. The couple married on June 19, 1991. She currently lives in Springfield, Missouri
with her husband and three children. She is still a working actress, doing regional theatre and touring productions periodically.
. She attended Southern Methodist University
and the Manhattan School of Music
, and she is a former America's Junior Miss
. Crosby and her husband, actor Robert Westenberg
, moved to Springfield, Missouri in 2005. They have three children: Emily, Katie, and Joel .
production of Jerry's Girls
in 1985-86. She then created the role of Cinderella in Into the Woods
in 1987, playing the role in the tryout at The Old Globe Theatre
in San Diego and on then Broadway. It was in this production that she met her husband, actor Robert Westenberg
, who starred opposite her as Cinderella's Prince (and also as the Wolf). Her next Broadway role was in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, where she was a replacement as Sarah Brown. She also reprised the role of Cinderella at the benefit performance of Into the Woods on November 9, 1997 at The Broadway Theatre
. Off-Broadway
, at the York Theatre, she played Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard and Jane Seymour
in the musical Six Wives in 1992, and Marsius in Philemon in 1991.
Crosby starred as Laurey in the national tour of Oklahoma!
opposite John Davidson
and Jamie Farr
. She also toured for two years with Fred Waring
and His Young Pennsylvanians. In regional theatre, she played Maria in West Side Story
at The Springfield Little Theatre
, Anne in A Little Night Music
at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
(1986),Hope Langdon in Something's Afoot
at the Birmingham Theatre; David Gordon
's The Mysteries, and What's So Funny at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jessie Pullman in the musical Georgia Avenue (July - August 1985) at Goodspeed Musicals
, Norma Terris Theater in East Haddam, Connecticut
. She has also appeared in workshop productions of Six Wives, Fahrenheit 451, Grovers Corners, and Jekyll & Hyde
. She appeared as Lily Garland in On The Twentieth Century
at Barrington Stage in 2001 More recently, she played Sally Durant Plummer in Follies
(2005) with the Barrington Stage Company
She has appeared in several productions at The Muny Repertory
in St. Louis, Missouri
. She played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady
in 2001 opposite Westenberg. She also played Marian in The Music Man
in 2004 and Guinevere in Camelot
in 2002. Of this performance, the Riverfront Times reviewer wrote: "Crosby can sing a lesser-known song such as "Before I Gaze at You Again" and make us wonder why we've overlooked it all these years. She can sing a popular tune like "I Loved You Once in Silence" and make us realize that Frederick Loewe's score is possessed of a haunting quality reminiscent of Schubert."
Crosby is currently playing the role of Mrs. Darling in the new national tour of Peter Pan
alongside Cathy Rigby
in the title role, which began performances August 2011.
in Tarzan in Manhattan
(CBS, 1989). In this version, Jane was a tough-talking New York City
cabbie
who befriended Tarzan
(played by Joe Lara
), they are in search of Cheeta
and other animals captured and taken from the jungle. She also appeared in The Guiding Light (CBS); All My Children
(ABC); and The Cosby Mysteries as Mrs. Pierce in the episode "Big Brother Is Watching" (1995). She has worked in numerous television commercials.
Crosby has also sung in concert with orchestras both in the U.S. and abroad. For example, she performed with the Florida Orchestra, Tampa, in a program "Kaleidoscope of Broadway" in 2004. She sang with the South Arkansas Symphony in a Christmas pops concert in December 2004. She has toured frequently with the ensemble Broadway Nights. In the Broadway Nights concert with the Lincoln Symphony (Nebraska) in March 2002, the reviewer noted that when singing songs from Phantom, "Crosby stole the show with 'Think of Me'".
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
, where she met her now-husband Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg is an American musical theatre actor and acting teacher. He married actress and singer Kim Crosby on June 19, 1991, and the couple now have three children.-Early Life:...
. The couple married on June 19, 1991. She currently lives in Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. According to the 2010 census data, the population was 159,498, an increase of 5.2% since the 2000 census. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 436,712, includes the counties of...
with her husband and three children. She is still a working actress, doing regional theatre and touring productions periodically.
Biography
Crosby was born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas and grew up in Springfield, MissouriSpringfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. According to the 2010 census data, the population was 159,498, an increase of 5.2% since the 2000 census. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 436,712, includes the counties of...
. She attended Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
and the Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
, and she is a former America's Junior Miss
America's Junior Miss
Distinguished Young Women, formerly known as America's Junior Miss, is a national non-profit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to high school senior girls. Depending on the schedule of the various state and local programs, young women are eligible during the summer preceding...
. Crosby and her husband, actor Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg is an American musical theatre actor and acting teacher. He married actress and singer Kim Crosby on June 19, 1991, and the couple now have three children.-Early Life:...
, moved to Springfield, Missouri in 2005. They have three children: Emily, Katie, and Joel .
Stage work
Crosby appeared in the BroadwayBroadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
production of Jerry's Girls
Jerry's Girls
Jerry's Girls is a musical revue based on the songs of composer/lyricist Jerry Herman.-Production history:Created by Herman and Larry Alford in 1981, the show originated as a modest presentation at Onstage, a nightclub located in the theatre district in midtown-Manhattan . Writing in The New York...
in 1985-86. She then created the role of Cinderella in Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
in 1987, playing the role in the tryout at The Old Globe Theatre
Old Globe Theatre
The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons...
in San Diego and on then Broadway. It was in this production that she met her husband, actor Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg is an American musical theatre actor and acting teacher. He married actress and singer Kim Crosby on June 19, 1991, and the couple now have three children.-Early Life:...
, who starred opposite her as Cinderella's Prince (and also as the Wolf). Her next Broadway role was in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, where she was a replacement as Sarah Brown. She also reprised the role of Cinderella at the benefit performance of Into the Woods on November 9, 1997 at The Broadway Theatre
The Broadway Theatre
The Broadway Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1681 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan....
. Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
, at the York Theatre, she played Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard and Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter's execution for trumped up charges of high treason, incest and adultery in May 1536. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of...
in the musical Six Wives in 1992, and Marsius in Philemon in 1991.
Crosby starred as Laurey in the national tour of Oklahoma!
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...
opposite John Davidson
John Davidson (entertainer)
John Hamilton Davidson, Sr. is an American singer, actor and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991....
and Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr is an American television, film, and theater actor. He is best known for having played the role of cross-dressing Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger in the television sitcom M*A*S*H.-Early life:...
. She also toured for two years with Fred Waring
Fred Waring
Fredrick Malcolm Waring was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing." He was also a promoter, financial backer and namesake of the Waring Blendor, the first modern electric...
and His Young Pennsylvanians. In regional theatre, she played Maria in West Side Story
West Side Story
West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
at The Springfield Little Theatre
Landers Theatre
The Landers Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, built in 1909, is the oldest and largest civic theater operation in Missouri. It has been in continuous use either as a legitimate theatre or a movie theater since it opened. In 1928, the theater became the 35th facility in the world to acquire sound film...
, Anne in A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...
at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,947 at the 2010 census...
(1986),Hope Langdon in Something's Afoot
Something's Afoot
Something's Afoot is a murder mystery musical that spoofs detective stories, mainly the works of Agatha Christie, and especially her detective novel And Then There Were None . The book, music, and lyrics were written by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach, with additional music by Ed...
at the Birmingham Theatre; David Gordon
David Gordon
David Gordon is an American author and trainer and early contributor to the development of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.Gordon has helped create and shape the field of NLP since some decades yet. Gordon's main areas of contribution have been the use of therapeutic metaphors, inspired by his work...
's The Mysteries, and What's So Funny at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jessie Pullman in the musical Georgia Avenue (July - August 1985) at Goodspeed Musicals
Goodspeed Musicals
Goodspeed Musicals, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, was formed in 1959 to restore the Goodspeed Opera House, located in East Haddam, Connecticut, to its original Victorian appearance. Each year, Goodspeed...
, Norma Terris Theater in East Haddam, Connecticut
East Haddam, Connecticut
East Haddam is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 8,333 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....
. She has also appeared in workshop productions of Six Wives, Fahrenheit 451, Grovers Corners, and Jekyll & Hyde
Jekyll & Hyde (musical)
Jekyll & Hyde is a musical based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The music is by Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Leslie Bricusse.The musical ran on Broadway for 1,543...
. She appeared as Lily Garland in On The Twentieth Century
On the Twentieth Century
On the Twentieth Century is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Part operetta, part farce, part screwball comedy, the story involves the behind-the-scenes relationship of a temperamental actress and a director.-Background:Comden and Green based...
at Barrington Stage in 2001 More recently, she played Sally Durant Plummer in Follies
Follies
Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies," a musical revue , that played in that theatre between the World Wars...
(2005) with the Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company is a regional theatre company in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. It was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Susan Sperber, in Sheffield, Massachusetts...
She has appeared in several productions at The Muny Repertory
The Muny Repertory
The Muny, or the Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, is a not-for-profit municipally-owned outdoor theatre, the largest in the United States. The Theater was built and opened in 1917 with 6 performances of Verdi's Aida. It operates solely in the summer, and its...
in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
. She played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
in 2001 opposite Westenberg. She also played Marian in The Music Man
The Music Man
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...
in 2004 and Guinevere in Camelot
Camelot (musical)
Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe . It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King....
in 2002. Of this performance, the Riverfront Times reviewer wrote: "Crosby can sing a lesser-known song such as "Before I Gaze at You Again" and make us wonder why we've overlooked it all these years. She can sing a popular tune like "I Loved You Once in Silence" and make us realize that Frederick Loewe's score is possessed of a haunting quality reminiscent of Schubert."
Crosby is currently playing the role of Mrs. Darling in the new national tour of Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1954 musical)
Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark "Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty...
alongside Cathy Rigby
Cathy Rigby
Cathleen Roxanne Rigby , best known as Cathy Rigby, is a former gymnast, actress and speaker.-Early life:Rigby was born in Los Alamitos, California in 1952....
in the title role, which began performances August 2011.
Television and concerts
Crosby's television credits include JaneJane Porter (Tarzan)
Jane Porter is a major character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film.- In the novels :...
in Tarzan in Manhattan
Tarzan in Manhattan
Tarzan in Manhattan is an action adventure CBS television movie. Joe Lara portrays Tarzan, and Kim Crosby appears as Jane Porter. Tony Curtis and Jan Michael Vincent co-star. The telefilm was produced by Max A. Keller, Micheline H...
(CBS, 1989). In this version, Jane was a tough-talking New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
cabbie
Cabbie
Cabbie may refer to:* A taxicab driver* A Lee C Kearns, a.k.a The Cabbie the stand up comedian and vantriloquist* Lee Mroszak, a.k.a. Crazy Cabbie, deejay and former regular guest on The Howard Stern Show* Cabbie Richards, Canadian TV personality...
who befriended Tarzan
Tarzan
Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
(played by Joe Lara
Joe Lara
William Joseph Lara is an American actor and musician, best known in the role of Tarzan in the American TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures.-Career:...
), they are in search of Cheeta
Cheeta
Cheeta is a chimpanzee character appearing in numerous Hollywood Tarzan movies of the 1930s–1960s as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarzan...
and other animals captured and taken from the jungle. She also appeared in The Guiding Light (CBS); All My Children
All My Children
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
(ABC); and The Cosby Mysteries as Mrs. Pierce in the episode "Big Brother Is Watching" (1995). She has worked in numerous television commercials.
Crosby has also sung in concert with orchestras both in the U.S. and abroad. For example, she performed with the Florida Orchestra, Tampa, in a program "Kaleidoscope of Broadway" in 2004. She sang with the South Arkansas Symphony in a Christmas pops concert in December 2004. She has toured frequently with the ensemble Broadway Nights. In the Broadway Nights concert with the Lincoln Symphony (Nebraska) in March 2002, the reviewer noted that when singing songs from Phantom, "Crosby stole the show with 'Think of Me'".