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In 1968, while Judy Kaye was attending UCLA as a theater major, she auditioned for the Los Angeles company of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She was cast as Lucy, playing the role for the entire two-year run. Over the next few years, she played Hodel in four different companies of Fiddler on the Roof, opposite such Tevyes as Theodore Bikel, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill and Kurt Kaszner. She also played Tzeitel in another company. She played Mary Magdalene in five different companies of Jesus Christ Superstar. In 1973, she created the role of Rizzo in the first national company of Grease (others in the cast included Barry Bostwick, John Travolta, Marilu Henner and Jerry Zaks). She made her Broadway debut in the same role in 1977. Other roles in the ’70s included Leah in The Dybbuk (with Joseph Wiseman) and Agnes in I Do, I Do! opposite John Davidson in Dallas (she would return to the role opposite Davidson again in 1991 at the St. Louis MUNY). At the Sacramento Music Circus, she played Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate opposite John Reardon and Sheila in Hair. She was also in the Los Angeles company of Godspell.

Read more about the career of Judy Kaye, including her Tony Award-winning role in The Phantom of the Opera, at www.judykaye.com

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