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Bistro
and MAC Award winning Broadway singer Georga Osborne was named one of the
“Funniest People in Cabaret” by In
Theater Magazine. She is a classically trained performer (with graduate
degrees from Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music) who has taken her
career into a mélange of entertainment genres including Broadway and cabaret
stages as well as a foray into the land of television commercials.
Theatrically,
as a singer and actor, Georga began at Carnegie-Mellon University (where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts). From
there she blossomed into roles in Meet Me
in St. Louis (original Broadway cast) and The Sound of Music (touring internationally in casts with both
Debby Boone and Marie Osmond) and regionally in such shows as Carousel, Nine, Pirates of Penzance
and Gypsy. Operatically, she made her
solo professional debut in Madame
Butterfly with the Pittsburgh Opera Theater with whom she later toured Germany and Switzerland as The Witch in Hansel
und Gretl. Though Georga has mastered a sizable number of operatic roles,
her true loves are musical theater and cabaret. A highlight for her was
performing in (and covering Audra McDonald as the Beggar Woman) The New York
Philharmonic’s celebrated production (and subsequent live recording) of Sweeney Todd starring Patti LuPone and
George Hearn.
Osborne
made her debut in the famed Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City on October 22, 2002 followed by another crowd pleasing performance
at New York’s Town Hall on October 25th. Her latest cabaret act opened at Don’t Tell Mama, New York’s popular cabaret room on October 27th. It
is here where Georga has presented her successful acts that have not only earned her the
Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy Performer and the
coveted 2000 MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award also for Outstanding Musical
Comedy Performer, but also the 2003 MAC Award for Summer in the Attic (Some're Not). She has performed her
critically acclaimed one-woman shows in New York, London, Chicago, Palm Springs, Taos and a few other admirable stops
along the way. Future engagements include more appearances in New York and London, and in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Career highlights
include singing back-up vocals for pop star Björk and celebrating the Millennium, she was the
featured soloist in the American premiere of
“Disney’s Fantasia 2000” at Carnegie Hall. On a personal note, one of
Georga's oldest dreams was fulfilled (that of being a "girl Beatle")
when she had a "hot date" with Paul McCartney at Carnegie Hall
singing in the American debut of his orchestral work Standing Stone. Osborne also has made a CD “Now Available in
Stores” and is available in stores in New York and London as well as on the aforementioned website
www.glosong.com.
A
native of pastoral Maysville, Kentucky, and the youngest of 7 girls, Ms. Osborne lives in Manhattan with her Shih-Tzu Mac, enjoying her active
participation in all things entertaining and a great view from her aerie on the
West Side.
September 2003
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