
The World Of Diva
Rebecca Spencer!

In
the London Monthly Herald, Ruth Sielberg wrote: "She
[Rebecca] elevated the American cabaret to the highest
international level." Unquestionably, Rebecca Spencer is
magic and beauty in motion. She has all the ingredients of a
world-class artist: Stage presence, class, refined style, a
voice out of this world, the rich repertoire, the perfect
vocal technique, the virtuosity and that magical and warm
rapport with her audience. This should explain the reason
why she was chosen to grace the cover of the World Who's Who
in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment, volume three.
This superb diva excels in any performance, ranging from an
intimate cabaret act to the most extravagant musical
production. And she displays her art with grace, truthful
emotions and unsurpassed creativity. She is the real thing!

Rebecca Spencer is currently co-starring in PHANTOM - THE
LAS VEGAS SPECTACULAR, where she created the role of Madame
Giry in this new $35 million dollar production under the
direction of Harold Prince. The role returns Rebecca to the
haunts of the Paris Opera House fifteen years after her
debut as Carlotta in Sir Andrew and Mr. Prince’s Hamburg,
Germany production, a role she performed in German for six
months. She is an original Broadway cast member of
Jekyll and Hyde in which she played the principal
roles of Lady Beaconsfield and Guenivere.
Ms. Spencer is listed in the World Who's Who in Jazz,
Cabaret, Music and Entertainment 2007
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Her additional performances in the role of Emma Carew
completed a circle that had begun eight years earlier when
she created the role at the 1990 Alley Theatre world
premiere. She was also in the final Toronto workshop of
Ragtime, directed by Frank Galati, and can be
heard on the first cast recording. Rebecca was nominated for
a Florida Theatre critics award (Best Actress) for her
portrayal of Rosabella in the Jupiter Theatre’s production
of The Most Happy Fella, as well as an
Arizona Theatre critics award (Best Supporting Actress) for
her portrayal of Buttercup in HMS Pinafore
at the Arizona Theatre Company. She has starred in
productions at the St. Louis and Trinity Repertory
Companies, Cincinnati Playhouse, Theatre Under the Stars,
Paper Mill Playhouse, and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.
In New York she has been featured at Lyrics and Lyricists
and as well as the Ira Gershwin Centennial at Carnegie Hall,
recorded for PBS, and marked her fifth ENCORES!
concert at the City Center in March of 2004. She was
featured at the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s 2004 and 2005 NYC
Cabaret Conventions, and starred in
Timeless Divas! Stars of the Silver Screen at the
Triad Theatre. Rebecca's television credits include
Third Watch and Law and Order: SVU.
Rebecca was awarded the 2004 Back Stage
Bistro Award for Oustanding Achievement in a Recording for
her debut solo CD, Wide Awake and Dreaming.
Her second recording, Fair Warning, was
relesewd in March 2006 on the LML Music label, distributed
by Allegro Music nationwide. She has toured twice nationally
in Man of La Mancha as Antonia, starring
first with John Cullum and later Hal Linden. She co-stared
as Shirley in the Goodspeed Opera’s Lady Be Good,
which also toured nationally. Rebecca has performed
principal roles with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and the
Minnesota, Omaha and Connecticut Opera companies, as well as
the composers forum at the New York City Opera. She has been
a guest soloist with the New Haven, Syracuse, New Haven and
Detroit Symphonies, and the Florida Orchestra, and with the
Indianapolis and Naples Symphonies conducted by Keith
Lockhart of the Boston Pops. She has also toured nationally
as the guest soloist for composer Marvin Hamlisch. She can
be heard on several cast recordings, including Jekyll
and Hyde, Ragtime, Drat the
Cat, Violet, Our Heart Sings,
Linda Eder's Christmas album, the Newberry Award
winning children's musical series The Mandarin Duck
and The Bridge to Terebithia, and Irving
Berlin’s Watch Your Step. Rebecca holds a
Bachelor of Music Degree from Ithaca College.
Ms. Rebecca Spencer is listed in the World Who's Who in
Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment
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