Wallace shares which three dream roles she'd like to take on next!
Three dream roles have so far eluded Broadway and West End favorite Marisha Wallace. She just ended an acclaimed Broadway run in Cabaret, but her heart is set on playing these three characters someday. So cast her already!
"I got into musical theatre through musical movies. I grew up in North Carolina on a hog farm and we didn't have access to Broadway... so the movies were my way to get my musical fix. I always loved Barbra Streisand. I loved her voice." she told BroadwayWorld.
In this episode, Wallace sings through the roles (one of them made famous by Streisand) that she hopes to play one day. Can you guess what they are?!
Double Olivier-Nominated actress, Marisha Wallace made her Broadway debut in Aladdin directed by Casey Nicholaw and, following that, went into the Original Broadway Cast of Something Rotten! A last-minute request to go to London to take over the role of Effie White in Dreamgirls in the West End, a role she was only supposed to do for three weeks, turned into eight years in the role. Marisha went onto star in the Original West End Cast of Waitress playing Becky and the revival of Hairspray at the Coliseum playing Motormouth Maybelle. Her formidable performances led to Director Daniel Fish asking her to play Ado Annie in his ground-breaking production of Oklahoma! at the Young Vic Theatre, for which she was nominated for the WhatsOnStage, Evening Standard and Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. It was quickly followed by another smash-hit revival, Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner, for which she was nominated for the WhatsOnStage, Evening Standard and Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Wallace will play the iconic Café Carlyle October 31-November 1.
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