Nothin’ Like A Dame
Tony Award Nominee Emily Skinner (Side Show) and Broadway favorite Julia Murney (Wicked) are two of Broadway’s biggest stars! Spend an unforgettable evening with these two SEXY, SASSY, FUNNY, CLASSY ladies!
Emily Skinner
Emily Skinner recently starred on Broadway in BILLY ELLIOT. Handpicked by acclaimed director Stephen Daldry, she was the very first American to play the role of Billy’s dance teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson. She was nominated for a Tony Award® and received a Drama League award as Daisy Hilton (along with Alice Ripley) in the brilliant but short-lived SIDE SHOW.
Her other original company Broadway credits include JEKYLL & HYDE, JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD, THE FULL MONTY, the revival of DINNER AT EIGHT (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), as well as The Actors Fund productions of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS and DREAM- GIRLS.
She has toured nationally in both BILLY ELLIOT and Disney’s ON THE RECORD.
At Carnegie Hall, she has sung many times with The New York Pops as a soloist, as well as ap- pearing in the New York Debut of Richard Thomas’ JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA (with Harvey Kietel). She has also dazzled as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and in engagements at Merkin Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Town Hall (all in NYC) and in her solo concert at various performing arts centers around the country.
Off-Broadway, she not only played leading roles in the City Center Encores! Series productions of NO STRINGS, PARDON MY ENGLISH, and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, but has also tread the boards in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, the WPA Theatre, The Paramount Theater at Madi- sonSquareGardens,YorkTheatre,PlaywrightsHorizonsandTheRoundaboutTheatre.
Regionally, she has appeared in multiple productions at The Kennedy Center, as well as The Signa- ture Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, The Old Globe, Ford's Theatre, McCarter The- atre, St. Louis MUNY, TheatreVirginia and Theatre IV.
Her numerous CD recordings include not only countless cast albums and audio books, but 20th Cen- tury Fox’s animated feature ANASTASIA; RAW AT TOWN HALL, DUETS, and UNSUSPECTING HEARTS (all with Alice Ripley); ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS, AND RAGING QUEENS; THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM ALBUM; WALL TO WALL SONDHEIM; BELIEVE: THE SONGS OF THE SHERMAN BROTHERS; THE STEPHEN SCHWARTZ ALBUM; and her self-titled solo CD.
Julia Murney
Julia Murney last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in WICKED after playing the role on the National tour, for which she received an Acclaim Award. Other New York credits include LENNON, Andrew Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY (Drama Desk Nomination), THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, A CLASS ACT, SAVED, CRIMES OF THE HEART, FIRST LADY SUITE and TIME AND AGAIN (Lucille Lortel Nomination). She’s been seen regionally all over the U.S. — Williamstown, Reprise!, Sacramento Music Circus, NCT, and Goodspeed, to name a few. And in concert she has performed at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s, The Kennedy Center, Town Hall and Birdland, as well as with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. Among her TV credits are "30 Rock," "Sex and the City," "Ed," "NYPD Blue," all three "Law and Order" series and many voiceovers. A Syracuse University graduate, her many recordings include the Grammy®-nominated Actor’s Fund Benefit of HAIR. Julia was recently hand-selected by the Tony®-award winning David Zippel for his world premiere production of THE BEST IS YET TO COME: THE MUSIC OF CY COLEMAN at the historic Rubicon Theatre in Southern California.
