Defying Gravity
The Music of Stephen Schwartz
Debbie Gravitte
Debbie Gravitte has had a varied career taking her from the Broadway Stage to the Symphony Hall and points between. She won the prestigious TONY AWARD for Best Featured Actress In A Musical for JEROME ROBBIN'S BROADWAY, along with a Drama Desk Award Nomination as well as the New York Showstopper Award. 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. Debbie has appeared in the ENCORE’S series productions of THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, TENDERLOIN, and CARNIVAL at New York’s CITY CENTER.
Debbie has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York City’s RAINBOW AND STARS, to London’s PIZZA ON THE PARK, and back home again to Atlantic City, where she’s had the honor to perform with notable talents such as JAY LENO, HARRY ANDERSON, and the legendary GEORGE BURNS.
Debbie has sung with numerous symphony orchestras including NATIONAL SYMPHONY (WITH MARVIN HAMLISH), BOSTON POPS, ATLANTA SYMPHONY,CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY, UTAH SYMPHONY, ST. LOUIS, HOUSTON and SAN DIEGO SYMPHONIES. Overseas, she has sung with the LONDON, AALBORG AND BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS, STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC, GOTESBORG and JERUSALEM SYMPHONIES, MUNICH PHILHARMONIC, ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA and SYMPHONICA OF BRAZIL.
On television, Debbie co-starred on the CBS series TRIAL AND ERROR and NBC’S PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, and starred in several specials for PBS, including LIVE FROM THE KENNEDY CENTER, BOSTON POPS CELEBRATE BERNSTEIN, RODGERS & HART for GREAT PERFORMANCES, and IRA GERSHWIN’S 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION from London’s ROYAL ALBERT HALL and CARNEGIE HALL. She recently returned to CARNEGIE HALL with SKITCH HENDERSON and NY POPS.
Liz Callaway
Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. Other Broadway appearances include Baby (Tony Nomination), The Three Musketeers, Miss Saigon, Cats, and The Look of Love. She has appeared off-Broadway in The Spitfire Grill (Drama Desk Nomination), No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, and Brownstone. Other New York appearances include the legendary Follies in Concert (Lincoln Center), An Evening with Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb (Feinstein's), Fiorello! (Encores), and Hair in Concert (New Amsterdam Theatre). She recently appeared in Bill Finn’s Elegies at Reprise! in Los Angeles.
The award winning show Sibling Revelry (created with sister Ann Hampton Callaway) was presented to great acclaim at the Donmar Warehouse in London. The sequel, Relative Harmony, recently played in New York and Los Angeles. Liz has performed extensively in concert, most recently on tour with The Boston Pops, and in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Kennedy Center and in Toronto. Worldwide, she has appeared in China, Estonia, Iceland, Germany, France, Slovenia, and just about every major city in the United States.
Liz has provided the singing voice for many animated films including the title character in the Oscar nominated Anastasia. She is also the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s The Return of Jafar, and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Other film work includes The Swan Princess, Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, Beauty and the Beast, and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars. She received an Emmy Award for hosting Ready To Go, a daily, live children’s program on CBS in Boston.
Other TV credits include In Performance at the White House, Inside the Actor’s Studio: Stephen Sondheim, and Christmas with the Boston Pops. Liz has released three solo recordings: The Beat Goes On, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off-Broadway, and Anywhere I Wander: The Music of Frank Loessor. Other recordings include A Stephen Sondheim Evening, Unsung Irving Berlin, Sondheim at the Movies, and The Maury Yeston Songbook.
Scott Coulter
For his work in cabaret, Scott Coulter was awarded both the 2001 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award as well as the 2001 Bistro Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist. He received a 1997 Bistro Award for the revue "Get Your Tickets Now!" and his debut solo show won the 1998 MAC Award for Male Debut. TimeOut NY picked Coulter's "Unexpected Songs" as one of the 'Best of 1999'. Coulter's self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by Scott and Barbara Siegel of TheatreMania and Jeff Rosen of Cabaret Scenes magazine.
Scott has appeared at Town Hall in the 1949 ,1953, 1962 and 1968 editions of the popular "Broadway by the Year" series and can currently be heard on the Bayview recordings of the 1949 and 1953 performances. Other Town Hall appearances include "Sentimental Journey: The Songs of World War II", "From Brooklyn to Hollywood", "All That Jazz: A Tribute to Kander & Ebb" and "Broadway Unpluggged."
Since 1997, Scott has performed around the country with award-winning songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich in their many revues. Currently, he is touring with composer Stephen Schwartz, Liz Callaway and Debbie Gravitte in the revue "Stephen Schwartz & Friends." Schwartz has said: "one of the best things that can happen to a songwriter is to have his or her material interpreted by Scott Coulter."
Scott toured the country as Jinx in "Forever Plaid" and was in the world premiere of "Floyd Collins," directed by Tina Landau at the American Music Theatre Festival. His regional theatre credits include "Into the Woods," "In Trousers," "Cotton Patch Gospel," "Pump Boys and Dinettes" and "As Bees in Honey Drown."
He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He can be heard in the upcoming Disney film, "Enchanted."
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- Stephen Schwartz's Biography
- Liz Callaway's Biography
- Scott Coulter's Biography
- Debbie Gravitte's Biography
