Broadway's Jennifer Cody Among New York Magazine's Best Performers of 2009

Broadway favorite Jennifer Cody, who voices Charlotte LaBouff in the current Disney hit The Princess and the Frog, has been named one of the top performers of 2009 by New York Magazine.  

Writes Dan Kois for the mag: "It's not easy to serve as an unofficial corporate apology while remaining totally endearing, but Broadway vet Cody pulls it off in Disney's re-envisioning of their lucrative princess franchise. Man-crazy, sickeningly rich, and desperate to be royalty, Lottie serves as flouncing counterpoint to the movie's sensible heroine, Tiana - but pretty much steals the show."

Cody's Broadway credits include Shrek: The Musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Pajama Game, Taboo, Urinetown, Seussical, Grease, Beauty and the Beast, and Cats.

To see who else made the list, click here.

Cody's latest project, Disney's animated The Princess and the Frog claimed the the top of the box office chart in its opening week and has continued to chart within the top five movies in it's 5th week out. The film additional features three other major Broadway voices, including Anika Noni Rose, Micheal Leon Wooley (American Buffalo, Little Shop of Horrors), and Peter Bartlett (Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and the Beast).

The film is set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio's first black princess.

Oprah Winfrey also appears in the cast as Eudora, the mother to Princess Tiana, voiced by Anika Noni Rose (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Caroline of Change, Footloose). John Goodman, Jenifer Lewis, and Keith David also star.

The movie is written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and features the music of Randy Newman, who wrote 6 new songs for the film. For more information visit, www.disney.go.com.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi