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Look for Carolee in the independent film, I Will Avenge You, Iago!
CURRENTLY:
Starring as Donna in the Broadway production of Mamma Mia!
December 11, 2006
Carolee Carmello and Gregg Edelman — the Broadway couple who have garnered six Tony nominations in total — will be part of the 4th Annual World AIDS Day Concert presentation of Rags, which will be held Dec. 11 at the Nokia Theater.

Carmello will star as Rebecca, the role created on Broadway by Teresa Stratas; Edelman will play Nathan. The duo join the previously announced Eden Espinosa as Bella, David A. Austin as Ben, Harvey Fierstein as Avram, Lainie Kazan as Rachel, Struan Erlenborn as David, Max von Essen as an American and Stacia Fernandez as Rosa with Aaron Berk, David Josefsberg, Ciaran Sheehan, Lisa Jolley and Colin Hanlon. MTV news correspondent Sway will host the evening.

September 27, 2006
Carolee returns to Mamma Mia! on Broadway at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre.
June 19, 2006
Broadway Musicals of 1978 at Town Hall. Concertgoers can expect to hear tunes from Working, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and On the Twentieth Century and watch dance numbers from Bob Fosse's Dancin'.
May 28, 2006
LESTAT played it's final Broadway performance.
April 25, 2006
LESTAT opens on Broadway at the Palace Theater. Carolee plays Gabrielle DeLioncourt
October 20, 2004
Carolee begins peformances as Donna in the smash hit Broadway musical, Mamma Mia! at the Winter Garden Theatre in NYC.
October 5, 2004

The Ladies of PS Classics Performing and Signing Their CD's

Tuesday, October 5th from 5:30 to 7 at Tower Records, Lincoln Center, NYC.

Scheduled to appear:
Christine Andreas, Carolee Carmello, Rebecca Luker, Jessica Molaskey, Kelli O'Hara and Deborah Tranelli

For more information, visit http://www.psclassics.com/.

May 25, 2004

Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording) released on CD

starring:
Carolee Carmello, Gavin Creel, Andrea Burns, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Cantone, Deborah Tranelli, Jennifer Laura Thompson, and Anne Kaufman -- with special appearances by Ann Hampton Callaway, Jack Donahue, Natalie Douglas, and Jessica Molaskey & John Pizzarelli

May 17, 2004

Carmello, Pawk, Testa and Murney Sing LaChiusa's Songs May 17.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed American Songbook series — devoted to the popular American song — continues May 17 with an evening featuring the works of Michael John LaChiusa.

Entitled The Girly Show, the 8 and 10 PM concerts will boast several of LaChiusa's favorite leading ladies. Those scheduled to perform include Carolee Carmello, who received an Obie Award for her work in the composer's Hello Again; Little Fish's Celia Keenan-Bolger; Julia Murney, who is currently starring Off-Broadway in First Lady Suite; The Wild Party's Sally Murphy; Tony Award winner Michele Pawk, who appeared in Hello Again; Alice Playten, who won an Obie for her work in the original production of First Lady Suite; and Marie Christine's Mary Testa.

The concert will include songs from such Michael John LaChiusa musicals as First Lady Suite, Hello Again, Marie Christine, The Wild Party, Little Fish and Lovers and Friends. Cabaretgoers can expect to hear brand-new tunes as well.

Tickets are priced $45 (8 PM) and $30 (10 PM) and are available by calling (212) 751-6500 or by visiting www.lincolncenter.org. The concerts will be held in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in the Rose Building at 165 West 65th Street, 10th floor. Visit www.lincolncenter.org for more information.

March 31 – May 9, 2004
Carolee is currently starring in BABY at the Papermill Playhouse in Milburn, NJ. (click poster for ticket info)
April 29, 2003

Carolee joins the Broadway cast of Urinetown the Musical as Penelope Pennywise!
It's privilege to pee!!!

at THE HENRY MILLER THEATER
124 West 44th St in NYC

March 2 - April 19, 2003

Elegies: A Song Cycle
A Lincoln Center Theater Special Event
by: William Finn
Directed by: Graciela Daniele

At the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Address: 150 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023

March 2, 2003 to April 19, 2003
Sundays & Mondays at 7:30pm (3/2 - 3/30/03)
Monday - Friday at 8:00pm (4/14 - 4/19/03), Saturday at 2:00pm & 8:00pm(4/19/03)
Tickets: All seats $40

Cast: Christian Borle, Betty Buckley, Carolee Carmello, Keith Byron Kirk, Michael Rupert

ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE, written by Tony Award-winning composer William Finn (Falsettos, A New Brain), is a celebration of life told through the power of song.
For More info click here

January 21 - February 02, 2003


STARRING
CAROLEE CARMELLO & BOB GUNTON

“ A unique marriage of civilized wit and wild humor….Funny, elegant and totally cheerful.” said The NY Times about this 1978 inventive and sophisticated musical comedy by composer Cy Coleman (“Sweet Charity,” “Little Me”) and the ubiquitous Betty Comden & Adolph Green (“Bells Are Ringing”, “The Will Rogers Follies”). It takes place early in the 1930’s aboard a train on the 17-hour run from Chicago to Boston, where a flamboyant producer on the skids tries to maneuver his former protegee/lover turned Hollywood movie queen back to the stage in his last-chance theatrical venture.

Book & Lyrics by
BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN
Music by
CY COLEMAN

Based on plays by
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur and Bruce Millholland

central ticket office phone: 310.825.2101
central ticket office fax: 310.825.9265
subscriber hotline: 310.397.1414
REPRISE! fax line: 310.397.3727

September 23, 2002
On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 7:30pm, The Actors' Fund of America will proudly present the eagerly anticipated 2nd Annual Benefit Concert – the legendary American musical FUNNY GIRL, starring a multitude of amazing talents in the title role of Fanny Brice. Carolee will be singing "The Music That Makes Me Dance."
June 3 - June 29, 2002
Carolee heads to London to play Lilli/Kate in the West End production of Kiss Me Kate.
April 3 - May 19, 2002
Carolee will be playing Anna Leonowens in the Paper Mill production of The King and I. Please check Paper Mill's website for more ticket info and directions - www.papermill.org
November 19, 2001
Carolee and Chita Rivera offer "Helping Hands" at Town Hall Tower Benefit, Nov. 19. The latest star-studded benefit comes courtesy of midtown Manhattan's Town Hall, where Chita Rivera, Carolee Carmello, Andrea McArdle and Liz Callaway and a number of other theatre notables will offer a "Helping Hands Benefit Concert," Nov. 19 at 8 PM.
For tickets and information call (212) 840-2824
May 29, 2001
Carolee joins the cast of Kiss Me Kate in the title role.
March 8, 2001
Carolee gave birth to Ethan Lee Edelman at 11:10 AM. He was 7 lbs. 9 oz.and was 21 1/4 inches long.
February 2001
Cast recording of A Class Act to be released by RCA Victor.
January 14 & 15, 2001
Carolee will be performing at Joe's Pub once again with Norm Lewis, Stephen DeRosa, Wanda Houston and William Finn in Infinite Joy - Songs of William Finn (Or Mostly Unknown Songs Written Recently and Not So Recently) - CD to be released on May 15th.
December 18, 2000 - January 7, 2001
Carolee will be appearing in The Vagina Monologues.
December 3, 2000
Carolee will be performing at Joe's Pub with Norm Lewis, Stephen DeRosa, Wanda Houston and William Finn in Infinite Joy - Songs of William Finn (Or Mostly Unknown Songs Written Recently and Not So Recently).
November 9 - December 10, 2000 (previews begin Oct. 3rd)
A Class Act opens the Stage II season of Manhattan Theatre Club. Carolee stars along with Jonathan Freeman (How to Succeed...), Randy Graff (City of Angels) and Julia Murney (MTC's The Wild Party). Taking existing music and lyrics by Kleban, writers Linda Kline and Lonny Price developed a piece that tells "the story of a man who discovers that fulfillment isn't measured by success; it's defined by what you do for love," according the MTC announcement. For MTC subscription information, call (213) 399-3030. To read more, click here.
October 13, 2000
Carolee and her husband, Gregg Edelman will be performing the first half of a New York Pops Concert at Carnegie Hall.  It is a tribute to Kander and Ebb. They will be doing songs from Cabaret, Zorba, Woman of the Year, etc. (Rita Moreno is supposed to be Act 2.)
August 1 - 13, 2000
Carolee will play Reno Sweeney in Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's Anything Goes. Playing Billy Crocker opposite her will be none other than her ex-leading man from The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ron Bohmer. (Oddly enough, the role of Billy Crocker was played by her husband, Gregg Edelman, in the Lincoln Center revival.) Yet another coincidence attached to this production - Parade will follow that run in Pittsburgh.
May 4, 2000
Carolee will be appearing in Storybook: The Lyrics of Nan Knighton. Click here for more info.
March 2 - 17, 2000
Carolee Carmello will be co-starring opposite her husband, Gregg Edelman in the workshop of Big Street. Big Street has music by Alan Menken.
February 10 - 28, 2000
Carolee Carmello, Laura Benanti, and Tovah Feldshuh are cast in the workshop for the musical adaptation of the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy, The Royal Family, about an American theatrical clan not unlike the Barrymores. The three-week workshop begins February 7 under the direction of Jerry Zaks, with Scott Wise choreographing. Barry and Fran Weissler are producing the William Finn-Richard Greenberg musical. The performance will be on February 28th.
January 31, 2000
Carolee is replacing Debbie Shapiro Gravitte in the David Zippel revue, All Girl Band at Joe's Pub for its last performance.
January 2, 2000
The Broadway production of The Scarlet Pimpernel closes.
November 8, 1999
Carolee wins the 1999 Theatre L.A. Ovation award for leading actress in a musical for her performance in Bells are Ringing.
September 28, 1999
Carolee is nominated for a 1999 Theatre L.A. Ovation award for leading actress in a musical for her performance in Bells are Ringing. Bells are Ringing was presented by Reprise! Broadway's Best in Concert at the UCLA Freud Playhouse.
September 12, 1999
Carolee, Ron Bohmer and Marc Kudisch will perform "The Riddle" from The Scarlet Pimpernel at Broadway on Broadway at 12:00 PM.
September 10, 1999
First performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel on Broadway at the Neil Simon theater
August 25 - 29, 1999
The Pimpernel tour moves on to the Fox Theater in Altanta, it's last stop before Broadway.
August 10 - 22, 1999
Carolee and the cast of The Scarlet Pimpernel open in Houston at Wortham Center's Brown Theater under the auspices of Theater Under The Stars.
July 28, 1999
Carolee appeared on "Good Morning Texas" to sing "When I Look at You."
July 27 - August 8, 1999
The Scarlet Pimpernel opens at the Music Hall in Dallas, Texas with leads Carolee Carmello as Marguerite, Marc Kudisch as her former lover, Chauvelin, and Ron Bohmer as the title character. Interview with Carolee Carmello about The Scarlet Pimpernel in the Dallas Morning News

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