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Carolee Carmello

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Carolee Carmello is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals and for playing the role of Maple LaMarsh on the television series Remember WENN (1996–1998). She is a three-time Tony Award nominee and a five-time Drama Desk nominee, winning the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her role in Parade.

CareerEdit

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Carolee Carmello at Transport Group Gala 2013

Carmello graduated from the University at Albany with a degree in business administration.<ref name=albany/>

Carmello made her Broadway debut in a small role in City of Angels and returned to close the show in the role of "Oolie/Donna". She left City of Angels to take the role of Florence in the tour of Chess, from January 1990 to May 1990.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She played "Cordelia, the kosher caterer" in the original Broadway company of Falsettos and also played Abigail Adams in the revival of 1776. In the Broadway company of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Carmello was a replacement in the role of "Marguerite St. Just". She originated the role of Lucille Frank in Parade at Lincoln Center, for which she won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (in a tie with Bernadette Peters)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Next Carmello played "Kate" in the Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate and "Ms. Pennywise" in Urinetown. She starred as "Gabrielle" in Lestat, for which she received nominations for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.Template:Citation needed

She appeared as Donna Sheridan in the long-running hit musical Mamma Mia! several times, joining the show initially in October 2004.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She again joined the cast as Donna in September 2006,<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> taking a leave from March 14, 2007, to May 13, 2007, to appear in an early version of Saving Aimee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Carmello originated the role of Alice Beineke in the musical version of The Addams Family. For this role she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She took over the role of the Mother Superior from Victoria Clark in the Broadway production of Sister Act on November 19, 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2012, she played Aimee Semple McPherson on Broadway in the musical Scandalous, for which she received a Drama Desk nomination and a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Musical.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She performed the role of Mrs. du Maurier in the Broadway musical Finding Neverland from March 2015 through February 2016 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Carmello appeared in the role of Mae Tuck in the Broadway musical adaptation of Tuck Everlasting at the Broadhurst Theatre, beginning in April 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following Tuck Everlasting's closing in May, she returned to Finding Neverland on July 5, 2016, for the show's last six weeks.<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Carmello joined the US national tour of Hello, Dolly, playing Dolly Levi, from September 2019 to its closing in March 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2023, Carmello played the role of the Stepmother in the Broadway musical Bad Cinderella.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Theatre creditsEdit

Broadway and West EndEdit

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Virginia Theatre
1992–93 Falsettos Cordelia John Golden Theatre
1997–98 1776 Abigail Adams<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Gershwin Theatre
1998–99 Parade Lucille Frank Vivian Beaumont Theatre
1999–2000 The Scarlet Pimpernel Marguerite St. Just Neil Simon Theatre
2001 Kiss Me, Kate Lilli Vanessi/Katharine Martin Beck Theatre
2002 Victoria Palace Theatre
2003–04 Urinetown Penelope Pennywise Henry Miller's Theatre
2004 Mamma Mia! Donna Sheridan<ref name=":1" /> Winter Garden Theatre
2006 Lestat Gabrielle Palace Theatre
2006–07 Mamma Mia! Donna Sheridan<ref name=":2" /> Winter Garden Theatre
2010–11 The Addams Family Alice Beineke Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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Broadway Theatre
2012 Scandalous Aimee Semple McPherson<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Neil Simon Theatre
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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Broadhurst Theatre
Finding Neverland Madame du Maurier<ref name=":3" /> Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
2022–23 1776 John Dickinson American Airlines Theatre
2023 Bad Cinderella The Stepmother Imperial Theatre

National toursEdit

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RegionalEdit

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Off-BroadwayEdit

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ConcertsEdit

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  • Showboat as Julie (Carnegie Hall), 2008<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1776 as John Adams (54 Below), 2017<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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AccoladesEdit

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She won $14,000 on an appearance on the Scrabble game show in 1989.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Awards and nominationsEdit

Year Association Category Nominated work Result
1996 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Remember WENN Template:Nom
1999 Tony Awards Best Actress in a Musical Parade Template:Nom
Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Musical Template:Won
2006 Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Musical Lestat Template:Nom
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2010 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical The Addams Family Template:Nom
Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Template:Nom
2013 Tony Awards Best Actress in a Musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson Template:Nom
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2015 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Finding Neverland Template:Nom

Personal lifeEdit

She is divorced from fellow actor Gregg Edelman.<ref name=albany>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Marilyn Maye And Gregg Edelman" Template:Webarchive digitalpub.chron.com, The Grand — Volume 2, 2011-2012 Season, accessed September 18, 2015</ref> They have two children.<ref>Beckerman, Jim. "PLAYING STRONG-WILLED WOMEN", The Record (Bergen County), March 31, 2002. Accessed May 27, 2008. "After starring in such New York shows as Kiss Me Kate, 1776, Parade and City of Angels, Leonia resident Carolee Carmello wanted to do something closer to home."</ref> She resides in Leonia, New Jersey.<ref>Spelling, Ian. "Splendid on the Screen and Stage: Actress Carolee Carmello" (201) magazine, April 4, 2017. Accessed June 26, 2017. "Carmello returns home to Leonia after each evening performance of Sweeney Todd. A divorced mother of two, a son and daughter, she's lived there for 14 years, after spending seven years in Teaneck."</ref>

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