Victoria Clark (born October , ) is an American actress, musical
theatre singer and director. Clark has performed in numerous Broadway
musicals and in other theatre, film and television works. Her soprano
voice can also be heard on innumerable cast albums and several
animated films. In , she released her first solo album titled Fifteen
Seconds of Grace. In , she won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress
in a Musical for her role in The Light in the Piazza. She also won the
Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Joseph Jefferson
Award for her performances in the same show.Clark was born and raised
in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Lorraine and Banks Clark. She
studied the piano and attended the Hockaday School, an all-girls
school in Dallas. She attended the Interlochen Arts Academy before
going to Yale University, graduating in . At Yale, at the age of
eighteen, she sang the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic
opera The Pirates of Penzance. She also sang the title role in Gilbert
and Sullivan's Patience, and directed a production of Ruddigore for
the Yale Gilbert & Sullivan Society. After college, Clark studied at
New York University's Musical Theatre Master's Programas a stage
director and began to direct operas and musicals professionally.
Although she continues to direct, she has primarily focused on singing
and acting.Clark's stage work includes roles in the Broadway musicals
Guys and Dolls (â€"), A Grand Night for Singing (â€"), How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying (â€", as Smitty), Titanic (â€",
creating the role of Alice Beane), Cabaret (â€", as Fraulein Kost) and
Urinetown (, as Penelope Pennywise), as well as numerous roles
Off-Broadway, in national tours and in regional theatre. She played
Doris MacAfee in the City Center Encores! production of Bye, Bye
Birdie in .In , Clark won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a
Musical, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and the
Joseph Jefferson Award for her performance in the musical The Light in
the Piazza (â€"). Broadway.com commented on Clark's performance, "What
is indisputable is that Victoria Clark has created a character for the
ages. Lucas has done a superb job in fleshing out Margaret within the
confines of a musical-theater libretto, and Clark responds with
consummate precision and grace. Calling hers the musical performance
of the year would be accurate. It would also be a drastic
understatement." She appeared as former showgirl Sally Durant Plummer
in the Encores! staged concert presentation of Follies in February at
City Center. She next created the role of Margaret Brennan in The
Marriage of Bette and Boo Off-Broadway in for the Roundabout Theatre
Company.
theatre singer and director. Clark has performed in numerous Broadway
musicals and in other theatre, film and television works. Her soprano
voice can also be heard on innumerable cast albums and several
animated films. In , she released her first solo album titled Fifteen
Seconds of Grace. In , she won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress
in a Musical for her role in The Light in the Piazza. She also won the
Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Joseph Jefferson
Award for her performances in the same show.Clark was born and raised
in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Lorraine and Banks Clark. She
studied the piano and attended the Hockaday School, an all-girls
school in Dallas. She attended the Interlochen Arts Academy before
going to Yale University, graduating in . At Yale, at the age of
eighteen, she sang the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic
opera The Pirates of Penzance. She also sang the title role in Gilbert
and Sullivan's Patience, and directed a production of Ruddigore for
the Yale Gilbert & Sullivan Society. After college, Clark studied at
New York University's Musical Theatre Master's Programas a stage
director and began to direct operas and musicals professionally.
Although she continues to direct, she has primarily focused on singing
and acting.Clark's stage work includes roles in the Broadway musicals
Guys and Dolls (â€"), A Grand Night for Singing (â€"), How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying (â€", as Smitty), Titanic (â€",
creating the role of Alice Beane), Cabaret (â€", as Fraulein Kost) and
Urinetown (, as Penelope Pennywise), as well as numerous roles
Off-Broadway, in national tours and in regional theatre. She played
Doris MacAfee in the City Center Encores! production of Bye, Bye
Birdie in .In , Clark won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a
Musical, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and the
Joseph Jefferson Award for her performance in the musical The Light in
the Piazza (â€"). Broadway.com commented on Clark's performance, "What
is indisputable is that Victoria Clark has created a character for the
ages. Lucas has done a superb job in fleshing out Margaret within the
confines of a musical-theater libretto, and Clark responds with
consummate precision and grace. Calling hers the musical performance
of the year would be accurate. It would also be a drastic
understatement." She appeared as former showgirl Sally Durant Plummer
in the Encores! staged concert presentation of Follies in February at
City Center. She next created the role of Margaret Brennan in The
Marriage of Bette and Boo Off-Broadway in for the Roundabout Theatre
Company.
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