Barbara Russell
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Barbra Russell is an American stage actor, singer, and Broadway producer. She is a classically trained vocalist majoring in Music Performance at the College of Saint Elizabeth at Covent Station, New Jersey where she won first place in the prestigious Florence Boughton Young Artist Competition. Within a year of winning this award, she was performing the lead role of 'Cosette' in Les Misérables.
Barbra is married to fellow American stage actor, singer, and producer Ron Sharpe. They first met on the stage of the Broadway production of 'Les Misérables' performing the young romantic leads of Marius and Cosette.
Barbra was an executive producer of Jill Santoriello's
Broadway musical adaptation of 'A Tale of Two Cities
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which played at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
in New York. The show closed on November 9, 2009 after 33 previews and 68 performances.
Barbra is married to fellow American stage actor, singer, and producer Ron Sharpe. They first met on the stage of the Broadway production of 'Les Misérables' performing the young romantic leads of Marius and Cosette.
Barbra was an executive producer of Jill Santoriello's
Jill Santoriello
Jill Santoriello is an American musician, composer, lyricist, and author. She is a self-taught musician whose award winning first musical A Tale of Two Cities was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Musical in 2009.Santoriello was born in Summit, New Jersey and grew up in...
Broadway musical adaptation of 'A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities (musical)
A Tale of Two Cities is a musical with book, music and lyrics by Jill Santoriello based on the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens....
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which played at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 302 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh for vaudeville promoter Martin Beck, the theatre opened as the Martin Beck Theatre with a production of Madame Pompadour on November 11, 1924. It...
in New York. The show closed on November 9, 2009 after 33 previews and 68 performances.
Production credits
- A Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities (musical)A Tale of Two Cities is a musical with book, music and lyrics by Jill Santoriello based on the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens....
- The Land of a Thousand Dreams
- Land
- A River in Time
Broadway credits
- Les Misérables
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Oklahoma
- Side by Side by Sondheim
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Fantastiks