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her love of dance, Smith has worked various jobs
to pay the bills. She was a preschool teacher, a
J.C. Penney’s warehouse worker, a movie theater
ticket-taker and a receptionist for an aerospace
defense company, where she earned the coveted
“Employee of the Year” award. Smith has been
a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) member for more
than 18 years. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
KEN PAGE
(
Sister Mary Wilhelm
) began his
career at The Muny as a member of the singing
ensemble. He returned to
his hometown in 1994 to
reprise his Broadway role
in
Ain’t Misbehavin’
and
has returned almost every
summer since, for shows
including
Jesus
Christ
Superstar, Les Misérables,
Little Shop Of Horrors
(Kevin Kline Award and nominations)
Little
Mermaid, Aida
and many, many more! His film
work includes
Torch Song Trilogy
(Murray) and
Dreamgirls
(Max Washington),
The Nightmare
Before Christmas
(VO Oogie Boogie),
All Dogs Go
To Heaven
(VO King Gator). Ken recreated his
(NY Theatre World Award) Broadway debut role
of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the Hollywood Bowl
presentation of
Guys and Dolls
. He continues to
perform his one man show
Page By Page
(CD on
LML Music). Ken was an original cast member
of the Tony® Award-winning musicals
Cats
(also
video cast) and
Ain’t Misbehavin’
(NY Drama
Desk Award, Best Actor). His Broadway and New
York credits include T
he Wiz, It Ain’t Nothin’ But
The Blues, Happiness
, American Songbook Series
at Lincoln Center,
Anyone CanWhistle
at Carnegie
Hall,
The Pajama Game
,
Call Me Madam
, and
Out of This World
as part of City Center Encores!
Series. He was also seen in the Madison Square
Garden productions of
A Christmas Carol
and
The Wizard of Oz
(Jeff Award nomination).
With The Reprise Series LA, Ken was seen in
The Threepenny Opera, Damn Yankees
and
Follies
.
In London’s West End, he created the role of
Father in
Children of Eden
and was seen as Rev.
Montgomery in
My One and Only
in Concert at
The London Palladium. Ken recreated his starring
role in the Paris Company of
Ain’t Misbehavin.’
His television roles are numerous including the
classic television films
Polly
and
The Kid Who
Loved Christmas
. Ken is also a veteran director.
His production of
The
Fantasticks
was awarded
the Los Angeles Ovation Award as Best Musical.
He staged
Storyville
with the San Diego Repertory
Theatre, as well as several productions of
Ain’t
Misbehavin.’
He recently wrote and directed
Café
Chanson
for UpstreamTheatre St. Louis. Ken was
seen in the world premiere musical adaptation of
the film
Grumpy Old Men
at the Royal Manitoba
Theatre Center in Winnipeg, Canada, and in
Two Gentlemen of Verona
(rock opera) with the
Tony® Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre of
Washington DC. He recently performed at New
York’s Cabaret hot spot 54 Below. He dedicates
this performance to all the wonderful nuns who
taught me in my fourteen years in the St. Louis
Catholic school system. What would I have done
without you? For Luther, David and Jim.
LARA TEETER
(
Father Virgil
) returns to The
Muny after recently starring as Albert Peterson
in
Bye Bye Birdie
(2011); Scuttle in
The Little
Mermaid
(2011); Lumiere in
Beauty and the Beast
P
AH L
P
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