Christiane Noll is an American singer and actress known for her work in musicals and on the concert stage. The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in history Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. ...

Life and career

Noll was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. She is the daughter of conductor Ron Noll and soprano Sara-Ann Noll. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2006, Noll married actor Jamie LaVerdiere, who appeared in the Broadway production of the musical The Pirate Queen, beginning on March 5, 2007. Noll has established the Charlotte Black Memorial Fund as an endowed award at Carnegie Mellon University. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... Look up soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The Pirate Queen is a musical based on the life of the 16th century Irish chieftain, adventuress and pirate Grace OMalley. ... This article is about the day. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Stage work

Noll created the role of Emma in the Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde in 1997 after playing the role in out-of-town tryouts. She also appeared on Broadway in the revue, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues (1999). Noll earned good notices for her performances as Kathie in The Student Prince (2000 at the Paper Mill Playhouse) and Marianne in City Center ENCORES! The New Moon (2003). Noll received an Ovation Award for her roll as Hope Cladwell in the National Tour of Urinetown (2004). She also created the role of Vanna Vane in The Mambo Kings musical (2005). She originated the role of Jane Smart in the American Premier of The Witches of Eastwick(2007). Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Jekyll & Hyde is a Broadway musical based on the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ... The Student Prince is an operetta written by Sigmund Romberg (music) and Dorothy Donnelly (books and lyrics). ... Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theatre located in Millburn, New Jersey, less than 25 miles away from Manhattan. ... The New Moon was a rock music venue in Paris during the 1990s. ... Established in 1989, the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards are Southern Californias premiere awards for excellence in theatre with is held each November. ... Henry Millers Theatre 2003, Charles Shaughnessy. ... The Mambo Kings movie poster The Mambo Kings is a 1992 film starring Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante and directed by Arne Glimcher based on the novel by Oscar Hijuelos. ... The Witches of Eastwick is a 1984 novel by John Updike. ...

Noll has been a member of the National Tours of Grease, as Sandy, Miss Saigon, as Ellen, and City of Angels, as Mallory/Avril, as well as a tour of Australia and Thailand as Nellie in South Pacific. She performed with Plácido Domingo in the Washington National Opera's The Merry Widow as Valencienne at The Kennedy Center (2005). Other stage credits include Mabel in Mack & Mabel (for which she won a 2004 Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Genvieve in The Baker's Wife(2002), Lizzie in Lizzie Borden (2001 at Goodspeed Opera House), The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods(2005), Carrie in Carousel, A Fine & Private Place, as Laura (2006 off-Broadway), and Mabel in Eugene Opera's The Pirates of Penzance (2006). Regional performances include Oliver!, All Night Strut, Cinderella, Annie, 42nd Street, My Fair Lady, and Sweeney Todd. Grease is a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. ... Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. ... The City of Angels Broadway Playbill, courtesy of broadwayman. ... South Pacific is a musical play, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. When it first opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, it was produced by Leland Hayward and directed by Joshua Logan. ... José Plácido Domingo Embil (born January 21, 1941[1]), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a world-famous Spanish operatic tenor. ... The Washington National Opera is a world-class opera company in Washington, D.C., USA. Its general director is the Spanish tenor, Plácido Domingo. ... For the ballet, see The Merry Widow (ballet). ... The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ... Mack & Mabel is a Broadway musical play. ... The Bakers Wife is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein based on the film La Femme du Boulanger by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. ... In 1959 an organization, the Goodspeed Musicals, was formed to restore the old Goodspeed Opera House, located in East Haddam, Connecticut, to its original Victorian appearance and elegance. ... Into the Woods is an award-winning musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ... Carousel is a 1945 stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnars play Liliom. ... Poster announcing the copyright performance at the Bijou Theatre, Paignton The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. ...

Concert, cabaret and recording work

Noll frequently performs broadway favorites in concert and has been a guest soloist as part of Bravo Broadway with the National Symphony and Marvin Hamlisch, The Cincinnati Pops, The Jerusalem Symphony, The Philadelphia Pops and Peter Nero, and has sung with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, The San Francisco Symphony, and the Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio, Brazil. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson, in his last New York Pops performance, as part of 3 Broadway Divas. Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. ... Peter Nero (born Bernard Nierow on May 22, 1934) is an American pianist and pops conductor. ... The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the major symphony orchestras in the United States. ... The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) was founded in 1914. ... Logo. ... Rio is the Spanish and Portuguese word for river. Aside from its use in the name of many rivers, Rio or RIO is used in a number of other ways. ... Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ... Skitch Henderson (born Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson, January 27, 1918; died November 1, 2005, New Milford, Connecticut) was a British-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. ...

Noll also performs a solo cabaret show and has been a featured member of the Broadway Inspirational Voices Gospel Choir.

Noll has released three solo CD’s, Christiane Noll - A Broadway Love Story (1998), The Ira Gershwin Album (2001) and Live at the Westbank Café (2003). She supplied the singing-voice of Anna in the Warner Brothers animated feature The King and I (1999). Some of her numerous recordings are Jekyll & Hyde (1997), The King & I (1999, Sony Classics), Little by Little (1999), A Christmas Survival Guide (2000), What's a Nice Girl Like You..., Z: The Masked Musical (2000), Bravo Broadway 2, The Three Broadway Divas (with two fellow Divas - Jan Horvath and Debbie Gravitte), Far from the Madding Crowd (2000), The New Moon (2003), Neo: A Celebration of Emerging Talent in Musical Theatre, Benefiting the York Theatre Company (2005), and albums of the music of Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach, Paul Simon, and Stephen Schwartz, among others. Warner Bros. ... The King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, with a script based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. ... Jan Horvath is a well known American singer for Broadway Culture. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. ... Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ...

External links

• Noll's official website
• 2006 NY Times review of Noll's performance
• 2006 Noll interview
• Detailed review of a Noll album
• Listing of available Noll albums
• Photos of Noll
• Bravo Broadway's website