Kim Crosby (singer)

Kim Crosby (born July 11 1960 is an American singer and actress. Crosby was born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas and grew up in Springfield, Missouri. 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.

Career

Crosby appeeared in the Broadway production of "Jerry's Girls" in 1985-86. She then created the role of Cinderella in Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" in 1987. Her husband, Robert Westenberg starred opposite her as Cinderella's Prince. 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 Seymore in "Six Wives", and Marsius in "Philamon".

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, most recently, she played Sally Durant Plummer in "Follies" (2005) with the Barrington Stage Company and appeared as Lily Garland in "On The Twentieth Century" at Barrington Stage and as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" at The Muny Repertory in St. Louis opposite Westenberg. She also played Marian in The Music Man (2004) and Guinevere in Camelot with Muny (2002), Maria in "West Side Story" at The Springfield Little Theatre; Anne in "A Little Night Music" at the Berkshire Theatre Festival; Cinderella in Into The Woods at The Old Globe Theatre; Hope Langdon in "Something's Afoot" at the Birmingham Theatre; "The Mysteries" and "What's So Funny" at The American Rep.; and Jessie Pullman in "Georgia Avenue" at The Goodspeed in Chester, Ct. She has also appeared in workshop productions of "Six Wives", "Fahrenheit 451", "Grovers Corners", and "Jekyll & Hyde".

Crosby's television credits include Jane Porter in "Tarzan In Manhattan" (CBS; 1989); "The Cosby Murder Mysteries" (NBC); "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 major orchestras both in the U.S. and abroad and toured frequently with the ensemble "Broadway Nights".

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189014/ Information from the IMDB database]
* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=72250 Information from the IBDB database]
* [http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/93460.html 2005 Playbill interview with Crosby]
* [http://www.gillioz.org/honorary/crosby.html List of Crosby's credits]
* [http://www.broadwaynights.com/pages/starkc01.html Photo and profile of Crosby]