Judy Kuhn

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Judy Kuhn (born May 20, 1958) is an American singer and actress best known for her appearances in musical theatre.

She has released four studio albums and appeared in the 1995 film Pocahontas, as well as her performance of "Colors of the Wind," which earned the Academy Award for Best Original Song to its composers. Kuhn made her professional debut in 1981 and her Broadway debut in Edwin Drood's 1985 original production.

Cosette in Les Misérables (1987), Florence Vassy in Chess (1988), and She Loves Me (1993).

She received Tony Award nominations for all three categories.

She also received an Olivier Award for her 1989 West End debut as Maria/Futura in Metropolis.

Betty Schaeffer, who appeared in the 1993 US premiere production of Eli's Comin, also appeared in the 2001 Off-Broadway version of Eli's Comin.

Helen Bechdel appeared in the original Broadway production of Fun Home, for which she received her fourth Tony nomination in 2015.

Early life

Kuhn (pronounced yoon) was born in New York City to Jewish parents and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., where she first entered Oberlin College. Kuhn joined the Oberlin Conservatory of Music after taking voice lessons with Frank Farina. In addition to classical music for which the Conservatory is best known, Kuhn was also interested in musical theater and other aspects of music. She studied at Oberlin as an "operatic soprano" and graduated in 1981.

She then migrated to Boston, where she waited tables and studied acting. Kuhn came back to New York after appearing in summer stock.

Personal life

Kuhn and her husband, David Schwab, live in New York City. Anna is Anna, their one daughter.

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Stage career

In 1985, she appeared on Broadway in Drood, a Rupert Holmes musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel. She appeared on "Alice / Miss Isabel Yearsley / Succubae" and was understudied for Bety Buckley's title role. Helen's next appearance on Broadway was in the ill-fated Rags, which opened on August 21, 1986, and closed after four performances.

Cosette's first Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical (1987) and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (1987) were two of her new roles.

Kuhn appeared in the Trevor Nunn-directed Chess, with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and Tim Rice in 1988 Broadway transfer from the West End, playing one of the main roles (Florence Vassy). With a new book by Richard Nelson, despite the show's success in London, Trevor Nunn decided to rework it for Broadway from a pop/rock opera staged in London to a more traditional musical theater piece. As a result, the new show was received mostly critical feedback and closed after less than two months, on June 25, 1988. Critics also lauded Kuhn's performance in the musical. "The show's most popular pop-soprano voice is her beautiful pop-soprano voice." According to Variety, she has the sympathetic, brave voice of spirit and heart. "She pours a river of feeling and a soaring vocal tone into...the role," the Village Voice wrote. She received her second Tony Award nomination, this time as Best Actress in a Musical (1988), as well as a 1988 Drama Desk Award nomination as Outstanding Actress in a Musical. In addition, the Original Broadway Cast recording of the musical was nominated for a Grammy Award.

In 1989, she reprised her role of Florence Vassy in a Carnegie Hall concert appearance with the remainder of the Broadway cast, where she performed with Tommy Körberg and Murray Head, two main actors from the 1986 West End production of the musical.

Kuhn made her London debut in 1989, while Jeremy Kingston was writing for The Times (London). She was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical by the Olivier Award.

Despite a cast that included Brian Bedford, Frances Conroy, Hope Davis, Victor Garber, Laura Innes, and Eric Stoltz, Kuhn's next big Broadway show, Two Shakespearean Actors (1992), was unsuccessful, ending after 29 regular performances.

Kuhn appeared in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of She Loves Me in 1993, portraying Amalia Balash, a young Budapest shopgirl who is unaware that the co-worker she despises is the one with whom she has been posting anonymously. She has been nominated for Best Actress in a Musical by the Tony Award for her role. Kuhn's 1993 Broadway revival does not include Kuhn, who left the project before the album was released.

In December 1993, Kuhn appeared as Betty Schaefer in the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles's first production of Sunset Boulevard. A cast album was released by the Los Angeles production, which is the only unbridged cast recording of the performance, with the original London recording being cut by thirty minutes.

The Glass Menagerie, a regional theatre company in Princeton, New Jersey, appeared in 1991 as "Laura" and Martin Guerre at the Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 1993. Kuhn reimagined her role as Cosette in 1995 for the 10th anniversary concert appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which was released on DVD as Les Miserables: The Dream Cast in Concert.

Kuhn appeared in King David, a 1997 Disney production starring Tim Rice and music by Alan Menken, as well as music by Alan Menken directed by Mike Ockrent. It was limited to nine performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre during a nine-performance limited run.

In September 2002, Kuhn appeared in the second annual benefit concert for The Actors' Fund of Funny Girl, with several actresses playing Fanny Brice.

She sang "Who Are You Now?"

People,' of which Andrew Gans of Playbill wrote: "She gave an enthralling, moving, full-voiced 'People,' and "People" were the luckiest peeeeple (wow!) "In the wooorld," says the author.

Kuhn's Off-Broadway and regional theater performances during this period include: As Thousands Cheer (1998) Off-Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater; Strike Up the Band (1998) Off-Broadway Encores Concerts at the Intiman Theatre Company in Chicago; Eli's Comin (2001) Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre Company (for which she received an Obie Award); and Three Sisters (2005) In a new adaptation by Craig Lucas at the Intiman Theater in Seattle, Washington.

After 20 years as Kuhn, this time as the role of Fantine, Kuhn returned to the Broadway production Les Misérables on October 23, 2007. She debuted Lea Salonga and stayed with the show until the revival ended on January 6, 2008.

Fosca was portrayed by Kuhn in the Off-Broadway Classic Stage Company's revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Passion from its opening in February 2013 to its scheduled closing in April 2013. Kuhn appeared in Fosca's Stephen Sondheim's anniversary performance in 2002 at the Kennedy Center.

Helen Bechdel played Helen Bechdel in the Off-Broadway Public Theater production of the musical Fun Home, which opened on September 30, 2013 and opened on October 22, 2013. Multiple times the season was postponed and eventually concluded on January 12, 2014. She appeared in the Circle in the Square from April 2015 to September 10, 2016.

Kuhn appeared as "Golde" in Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway revival, beginning on November 22, 2016. Fiddler on the Roof, which began on November 23, 2018, and ran until March 9, 2019. She played Golde in the Menier Chocolate Factory's (London) production of Fiddler on the Roof, which opened on November 23, 2018 and continued to March 9, 2019.

Career outside theatre

Law & Order, All My Children, and two PBS shows are among her television credits. In March 1988, the Shows were on display at the White House.

In 1995 Disney animated film Pocahontas, Kuhn played the title role. The film's score received an Academy Award, and the soundtrack debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with over 2.5 million copies sold. Kuhn's version of the song "Colors of the Wind" received the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award, as well as a Grammy Award.

In Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World and in "If You Can Dream," a Disney Princess song, Kuhn appeared as Pocahontas. Kuhn appeared in the film Long Time Since (1998) for a brief period of time, and he provided the vocals for the film's soundtrack, which also included a rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

She has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall in Manhattan, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and in London's Royal Albert Hall. She appeared in a solo cabaret/nightclub act at Joe's Pub in October 2007 and the Iridium in New York in January 2008. In March 2012, she appeared at Loews Regency for her solo appearance.

Just in Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne was released on January 31, 1995, her first solo album, Just in Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne. Serious Playground: Laura Nyro's Songs, Kuhn's second solo album, was released on October 2, 2007. All This Happiness, which features pop, jazz, cabaret, and blues songs, as well as the album's title song.

Kuhn also teaches a song interpretation class at Michael Howard Studios in New York City, where she began studying earlier in her career. Kuhn "possesses one of the world's most versatile and rangy voice," according to Playbill's Andrew Gans, Kuhn has "remarkable interpretive skills" as well as "an extremely versatile and rangy voice."

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