Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbins’ Broadway), one of Broadway's biggest personalities, has found herself in demand from the Broadway stage to the concert stage and beyond. After making her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, she went on to appear in Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award nomination), Blues in the Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Zorba, Chicago and Les Miserables. Gravitte has been seen in the Encores! series productions of The Boys from Syracuse, Tenderloin and Carnival at New York’s City Center. She has appeared as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Love Life at the Walnut St. Theatre, Red, Hot and Blue at the Paper Mill Playhouse, and the West Coast Premiere of The Goodbye Girl.
Gravitte has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York’s Rainbow and Stars, 54 Below and Birdland to London’s Pizza on the Park and back home again to Atlantic City, where she’s had the honor of performing with Jay Leno, Harry Anderson and the legendary George Burns.
A favorite with symphony orchestra audiences, she has sung with more than 175 orchestras around the world. She has toured with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, appeared with Lang Lang and the Chinese Philharmonic in Beijing, along with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, The National Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, the NY Pops with the legendary Skitch Henderson, Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Utah Symphony, and the St. Louis, Houston, Dallas and San Diego symphonies.
Overseas, Gravitte has sung with the Moscow, London, Aalborg and Birmingham symphony orchestras, the Stockholm Philharmonic, the Gothenburg and Jerusalem symphonies, the Munich Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra Massimo del Palermo and the Brazil Symphony, Bilbao Philharmonic and Malaysian Philharmonic.
On television, Gravitte co-starred on the CBS series Trial and Error, was seen on NBC’S Pursuit of Happiness, and has starred in several specials for PBS, including Live from the Kennedy Center, The Boston Pops Celebrate Bernstein, “Rodgers and Hart” for Great Performances and Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Celebration.
Gravitte has four solo CDs to her credit, including her latest release, Big Band Broadway, along with Defying Gravity, The MGM Album, and Part of Your World: The Music of Alan Menken. Her other recordings include Calamity Jane, Unsung Sondheim, Lucky Stiff, Miss Spectacular, Louisiana Purchase, A Broadway Christmas, as well as Mack and Mabel in Concert live from the Drury Lane Theatre, among others.
Gravitte has sung with the New York City Ballet in Peter Martins’ Thou Swell at Lincoln Center, appeared with Bette Midler in the Universal Feature Isn’t She Great?, and can be heard as one of the voices in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Gravitte is the proud mother of three beautiful children.
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