Kathy Halenda - Herod
is happy to be back on the Riverside stage! A veteran of well over two hundred productions, her extensive credits include: RIVERSIDE THEATRE: Beautiful (Genie), Wizard of Oz (The Wicked Witch), The Orient Express (Princess Dragomiroff), 42nd Street ( Maggie Jones), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Christina Drayton), Gypsy (Mama Rose), Grease (Ms. Lynch), Steel Magnolias (Ouiser), Mame (Vera), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Miss Mona). Nineteen NATIONAL TOURS: Tootsie (Rita Marshall), Gypsy (Mama Rose), 42nd Street (Maggie Jones), Oliver (Nancy- three tours), Grand Hotel (Rafaela) and Pajama Game (Mabel). Hundreds of REGIONAL CREDITS: including several title roles multiple times in Mame, Hello Dolly, Evita, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy (Mama Rose), The Best Lil’ Whorehouse in Texas (Miss Mona), and Oliver (Nancy). OTHER CREDITS: Norwegian Cruise Lines (Female Lead in Havana!), Big Apple Circus (first female Ringmaster), National Anthem singer at Madison Square Garden and Fenway Park. THREE ONE WOMAN SHOWS: The Brassy Broads of Broadway, Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red-Hot Mamas and Somewhere Over the Rose.