Biography
Barbara Walsh is an American musical theatre actress who has appeared in a number of major Broadway plays most known for her roles in the original Broadway production of Falsettos, which earned her a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination, as well as her performance as Joanne in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company, which received a Broadway revival in 2006.
Age
She is 68 years old as of 3 June 2023. She was born in 1955 in Washington, D.C., United States.
Family – Edeucation
Walsh was raised with seven siblings in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She began performing in theater throughout high school, having been skilled at singing and doing impressions since she was little. She attended Georgetown Visitation, an all-girls Catholic high school, and began playing in musicals at a nearby boys’ high school. She then enrolled at Montgomery College, where she studied acting and music. Walsh worked in dinner theater and summer stock in Warsaw, Indiana, after graduating from college. Margaret Riddleberger was her voice teacher for the past 30 years.
Husband
Walsh is married to Jack Cummings III, the artistic director of Transportation Group Theatre Company.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Career
Walsh is referred to for her job as Trina in the Tony Grant winning unique Broadway creation of William Finn and James Lapine’s Falsettos (1992). She previously acted in the job in the creation coordinated by Graciela Daniele at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut in 1990, the primary organizing of Spring of the Falsettos and Falsettoland as a solitary show. She then stayed in the job when Falsettos went to Broadway. She got a Tony Grant selection, a Show Work area Grant designation, and a Los Angeles Applause Grant for the job. She later repeated this job for the show’s public visit in 1994.
Walsh recently made her Broadway debut in 1982 in the cast of melodic revue Rock ‘N Roll! The Initial 5,000 Years. She then, at that point, showed up in Nine as Francesca. She additionally showed up on Broadway in 1993 in Kindred spirits, starting the job of Mrs. Lyons.
In 1996, Walsh played Mrs. Baskin in the first creation of Huge. In 2002, she assumed control over the job of Velma Von Tussle in the Broadway creation of Hairspray. She played Joanne in the 2006 Tony Grant winning Broadway restoration of Stephen Sondheim’s Organization, for which she got a Show Work area Grant selection. This creation was taped for TV and broadcasted on PBS in February 2008.
Walsh performed Off-Broadway in Taboo Broadway during the 1980s, satirizing figures like Barbra Streisand and Bernadette Peters. Her other Off-Broadway credits incorporate Birds of Heaven (1987), Overwhelming joy in Your Heart (1999), the Vehicle Gathering’s Jonathan Larson Grant winning melodic Ordinary (2005), and Transport Gathering’s Three Days to See (2015). Later in 2015, she showed up in Michael John LaChiusa’s Most memorable Little girl Suite at The Public Theater, assuming the part of Pat Nixon.
Walsh’s other work incorporates public visiting creations of Oklahoma!, Les Misérables, the 1990 US visit through Chess, for which her exhibition as Svetlana procured her a Carbonell Grant, and the 1984 public visit through Nine, wherein she repeated her job as Francesca from the Broadway creation.
Territorially, Walsh has been found in Houdini in 1997 and Precisely Like You in 1998 at Goodspeed Show House in Connecticut. She featured in Gretna Theater’s 1997 creation of A Trolley Named Want as Blanche DuBois. Walsh supplanted Donna Bullock in the job of Mother in the Chicago cast of Jazz in 1998. She played Pfeni Rosensweig in the Wendy Wasserstein play The Sisters Rosensweig at New Jersey’s George Road Playhouse in 2002. In 2006, Walsh played Joanne in John Doyle’s creation of Organization at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Recreation area, a job she repeated when the creation later moved to Broadway.
She showed up in A Little Night Music in 2008 as Desirée Armfeldt at All important focal point in Baltimore. She assumed the double parts of Edith Beale and her girl Little Edie in Dark Nurseries in 2008 at the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C. In 2009 she played Maria Callas in Paper Factory Playhouse’s Lord Class. She was projected in First Spouses Club at the Old Globe Theater in 2009. She acted in Capital Repertory Theater’s 33 Varieties in 2010. She featured in George Road Playhouse’s 2010 creation of Making Claire.
She played Sonia in All important focal point’s 2014 creation of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In 2014, she played Margaret White in Studio 2ndStage’s Carrie: the Melodic, a job for which she won a Helen Hayes Grant. In April 2016, it was declared that Walsh would join the cast of new melodic Presto Change-O as a component of Barrington Stage Organization’s 2016 season. Presto Change-O opened May 18, 2016, with Walsh assuming the part of Mary. In August 2016, Walsh joined Gloucester Stage Organization’s development of Melodies for Another World. In Walk 2017, Walsh depicted Eliza Hamilton and Hillary Clinton in the Mohammed Fairouz show The New Sovereign at the Dutch Public Drama in Amsterdam. She played Hannah Pitt and others in the Entertainers Theater of Louisville’s October 2017 creation of Heavenly messengers in America.
Walsh’s TV credits remember various visitor appearances for Regulation and Request and Regulation and Request: Criminal Aim, as well as the re-happening job of Judy Schulman-Brown on One Life to Live. Walsh likewise showed up in the film Existence with Mikey.