Ruthie Henshall
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Ruthie Henshall in Australia
In Spring 2012 Ruthie makes her first Australian stage performance at Sydney’s Theatre Royal on April 20th 2012 At 8:00pm in a special charity event for the White Ribbon Foundation. This is a one-off charity performance of the musical revue Side By Side By Sondheim which features Ruthie Henshall and more than twenty of Australia’s most acclaimed stage performers and at least one Australian celebrity who will be announced shortly.
Ruthie has starred in some of the most successful musicals of the past twenty-five years on Broadway and in London’s West End, including Les Miserables, Chicago, Miss Saigon, Crazy For You, Marguerite and Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together. The concert is being staged to raise money for the White Ribbon Foundation which is an Australian campaign to stop violence against women. They are hoping to raise $100, 000 for the charity
Only 1000 seats available for this charity event with tickets will on sale from Monday 27th February 2012.
Ruthie Henshall in Chicago
Ruthie Henshall is returning to the hit stage musical Chicago.
She will star as Roxie Hart in the London West End production - a role she last played 11 years ago.
Ruthie Henshall has also performed as Roxie in Chicago on Broadway in New York.
Ruthie Henshall's nine week run from 14th December, 2009 until 28th February, 2010 will be briefly interrupted over New year between 28th December 2nd January due to other commitments. These dates will be covered by Bonnie Langford who comes direct from playing Roxie on Broadway.
The original ‘Roxie Hart’, Ruthie Henshall returned to London’s West End to reprise her acclaimed performance in Chicago at The Cambridge Theatre. Her 9 week appearance was then extended until 17 April, 2010 so you’ve probably missed the chance to see the performance that earned Ruthie a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. The award-winning actress, singer and dancer also won widespread acclaim in 2008 for her performance in the leading role of Marguerite at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Tickets are available for Chicago the Musical which is running at the Cambridge Theatre, Covent Garden until the 30th October 2010.
Ruthie Henshall's Glittering Career
Ruthie trained at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom, Surrey, swiftly landing a role in a touring production of A Chorus Line before making her West End debut in Cats at the New London Theatre.
Then at 21she was cast as Ellen in Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, followed by Children of Eden at the Prince Edward Theatre and then a season at the Chichester Festival Theatre, performing in Shakespeare, Moliere and the musical Valentine’s Day. Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre, and followed this in 1993 by returning to the Prince Edward Theatre to play Polly in Crazy for You, for which she was nominated for her first Olivier award. Her next part got her the award – playing Amalia Balash in She Loves Me at the Savoy Theatre.
Next up she played Nancy in 1996 in Sam Mendes’ revival of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, then a quick Chichester run playing Polly in Divorce Me, Darling before a biggie – starring as Roxie Hart in the London production of Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre.
She then went to Broadway, appearing in Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 before playing Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago, Miss Saigon and Putting It Together.
Back in London she starred as Peggy Sue in Peggy Sue Got Married, and then in 2001 took a part in The Vagina Monologues at the Arts Theatre. After playing Velma in the London production of Chicago, and touring the UK in Fosse, she joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman In White at the Palace Theatre.
In 2006 she returned to New York to play Emma in David Ives’s two-hander The Other Woman and in 2007 starred in the Encores! production of Stairway to Paradise at City Centre.
UK and US concert tours followed, including her Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2004, plus a feature film – Ahrens and Menken’s A Christmas Carol with Kelsey Grammer and Jane Krakowski – and TV roles in Law and Order and Mysteries of 71st Street for CBS.
In 2008 she took the lead in Marguerite at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
