American actress and singer (born 1954)
Debbie Gravitte
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Born
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Occupation(s)
| Singer, actress
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Spouse(s)
| Beau Gravitte; 3 children
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Website
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Debbie Shapiro Gravitte
is an American actress and singer. She was born in
Los Angeles, California
.
Career
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Gravitte made her
Broadway
debut in the chorus of
They're Playing Our Song
in 1979.
[1]
She performed on Broadway in
Blues in the Night
in 1982;
[2]
Zorba
in 1983;
[3]
Les Miserables
as
Fantine
replacement, 1994;
[4]
and
Chicago
as Matron "Mama" Morton replacement in 2003.
[5]
[6]
In 1989 she appeared in
Jerome Robbins' Broadway
, for which she won the
Tony Award
for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She was nominated for the
Drama Desk Award
.
[7]
She was nominated for the 1981 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, for the
Frank Loesser
revue
Perfectly Frank
(1990).
[8]
She has appeared in several
Encores!
staged concerts at
New York City Center
, including
Carnival
(2002),
The Boys from Syracuse
(1997) and
Tenderloin
(2000).
[9]
[10]
[11]
Her solo album
Part of Your World
celebrates the songs of
Alan Menken
,
[12]
and she is featured on the recording
Unsung Sondheim
.
[13]
She was a member of the regular cast of the short-lived 1988 television
situation comedy
Trial and Error
. Her only other screen credit is the 2000
Jacqueline Susann
biopic
Isn't She Great
, in which she portrayed singer
Eydie Gorme
.
[14]
On October 27, 2012, Shapiro Gravitte starred in the Broadway-style musical
Loving the Silent Tears
, which premiered in Los Angeles, California.
[15]
[16]
On November 11, 2019, Shapiro Gravitte starred as the narrator in the Off-Broadway revival of
Over Here!
at The Triad Theatre in New York City with direction by Will Nunziata and music direction by Blake Allen. The production also starred Haley Swindal as Pauline, Jessica Hendy as Paulette, and
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
as Mitzi the Nazi.
[17]
She performs in concerts, including with the National Symphony with
Marvin Hamlisch
, the Boston Pops, the Atlanta Symphony, the
Cleveland Orchestra
, the
Pittsburgh Symphony
, the
Utah Symphony
, St. Lous, Houston, and San Diego Symphonies.
[18]
Family
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She is married to actor/singer Beau Gravitte; the couple has three children.
[19]
[12]
The Bay Area Reporter
noted: "Being at home to rear her three children with actor husband Beau Gravitte was a big reason she turned to the life of a traveling concert performer, with big at-home gaps built into the schedule."
[20]
[21]
References
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"'They're Playing Our Song' Broadway"
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
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"'Blues in the Night' Broadway"
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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'"Zorba' Broadway"
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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"'Les Miserables' Broadway"
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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"'Chicago' Broadway"
Archived
December 24, 2015, at the
Wayback Machine
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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gans, Andrew.
"Debbie Gravitte Returns to Broadway in 'Chicago'"
Playbill
, December 1, 2003
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"'Jerome Robbins' Broadway' Broadway"
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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"'Perfectly Frank' Broadway"
playbillvault.com. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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Simonson, Robert
and Jones, Kenneth.
"Gravitte and Stiers Star in Encores!' 'Tenderloin', March 23?27"
Playbill
, March 10, 2000
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Simonson, Robert.
"Stokes, Sills, Gravitte Star in Encores! 'Carnival', Feb. 7"
Playbill
, February 7, 2002
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Gans, Andrew.
"Luker & Gravitte Star in 'Encores!' Syracuse May 1?4"
Playbill
, April 30, 1997
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b
Gans, Andrew.
"DIVA TALK: Chatting with Big Time's Debbie Gravitte, Your Evita Thoughts and News of Peters and Menzel"
Playbill
, September 9, 2005
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"Unsung Sondheim"
AllMusic. Retrieved December 24, 2015
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Mitchell, Elvis.
Review
The New York Times
, January 28, 2000
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"Liz Callaway, Debbie Gravitte, Jon Secada and More Set for LOVING THE SILENT TEARS in LA, 10/27"
.
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"website"
.
Loving the Silent Tears
. Archived from
the original
on September 26, 2012
. Retrieved
September 30,
2012
.
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"Over Here! 2019 Revival"
.
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"Debbie Gravitte Bio"
orsymphony.org, 2012
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"Beau Gravitte is New Chair of Drama Department at Wooster School"
hamlethub.com, March 12, 2011
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Dodds, Richard.
"Debbie Gravitte defies gravity"
ebar.com, November 6, 2008
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Fox, Sandra Diamond.
"A Sunday chat with Beau Gravitte"
newstimes.com, August 14, 2010
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