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Marcia Lewis (born August 8, 1938) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 character actress
Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
.

Born in Melrose, Massachusetts
Melrose, Massachusetts

Melrose is a city located in the Greater Boston metropolitan area and Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The population was 26,782 in the 2007 population estimate from the U.S....
 and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, Lewis made her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in the original production of Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
. Additional theater credits include The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life a 1939 five-act Play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award....
, Annie, Rags
Rags (musical)

Rags is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz , and music by Charles Strouse....
, Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams. It was first presented on Broadway theatre in 1957 where it enjoyed a brief run with only modest success....
, Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
, Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
, and Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
. She has been nominated twice for the Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 as Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Chicago and Grease) and twice for the Drama Desk Award
Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award, created in 1955, is an award which recognizes theatres produced on Broadway theatre, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for-profit theaters....
 for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Chicago and Rags).

Lewis' television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 credits include guest appearances on The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series, both starring comedian Bob Newhart. The better-known is a situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired on CBS from September 16, to April 1, ....
, Baretta
Baretta

Baretta is a United States detective fiction television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973?74 ABC series, Toma , starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma....
, The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman is an United States Television program which spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man. It starred Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers , a tennis professional who was nearly killed in a Parachuting accident, and was rebuilt by Oscar Goldman and Dr....
, Happy Days
Happy Days

Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
, and Kate and Allie.

As a singer, Lewis has performed in most of the leading cabarets and supper club
Supper club

A supper club is an American cuisine dining establishment generally found in the Upper Midwestern states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. These establishments typically are located on the edge of town in rural areas ....
s in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, including Rainbow & Stars, Upstairs at the Duplex, Upstairs at the Downstairs, Grande Finale, Reno Sweeney's, Freddy's Eighty-Eights, Town Hall, The Village Gate
The Village Gate

The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York.Art D'Lugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor and basement of 158 Bleecker Street....
, and the Russian Tea Room
Russian Tea Room

The Russian Tea Room is a restaurant in New York City, located at 150 West 57th Street between Carnegie Hall Tower and Metropolitan Tower ....
.






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Marcia Lewis (born August 8, 1938) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 character actress
Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
.

Born in Melrose, Massachusetts
Melrose, Massachusetts

Melrose is a city located in the Greater Boston metropolitan area and Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The population was 26,782 in the 2007 population estimate from the U.S....
 and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
, Lewis made her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in the original production of Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
. Additional theater credits include The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life a 1939 five-act Play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award....
, Annie, Rags
Rags (musical)

Rags is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz , and music by Charles Strouse....
, Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams. It was first presented on Broadway theatre in 1957 where it enjoyed a brief run with only modest success....
, Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
, Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
, and Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
. She has been nominated twice for the Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 as Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Chicago and Grease) and twice for the Drama Desk Award
Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award, created in 1955, is an award which recognizes theatres produced on Broadway theatre, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for-profit theaters....
 for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Chicago and Rags).

Lewis' television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 credits include guest appearances on The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series, both starring comedian Bob Newhart. The better-known is a situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired on CBS from September 16, to April 1, ....
, Baretta
Baretta

Baretta is a United States detective fiction television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973?74 ABC series, Toma , starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma....
, The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman is an United States Television program which spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man. It starred Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers , a tennis professional who was nearly killed in a Parachuting accident, and was rebuilt by Oscar Goldman and Dr....
, Happy Days
Happy Days

Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
, and Kate and Allie.

As a singer, Lewis has performed in most of the leading cabarets and supper club
Supper club

A supper club is an American cuisine dining establishment generally found in the Upper Midwestern states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. These establishments typically are located on the edge of town in rural areas ....
s in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, including Rainbow & Stars, Upstairs at the Duplex, Upstairs at the Downstairs, Grande Finale, Reno Sweeney's, Freddy's Eighty-Eights, Town Hall, The Village Gate
The Village Gate

The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York.Art D'Lugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor and basement of 158 Bleecker Street....
, and the Russian Tea Room
Russian Tea Room

The Russian Tea Room is a restaurant in New York City, located at 150 West 57th Street between Carnegie Hall Tower and Metropolitan Tower ....
. She also has performed in concert at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
.

Lewis' solo album Nowadays, a collection of showtunes and standards recorded with the Mark Hummel Quartet, is available on the Original Cast Records label.

Lewis and husband Fred D. Bryan live in Manhattan.

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