Broadway Ladies: Ms. Broadway September 2010

Boy, these summer months flew by didn't they?  What better way to celebrate the end of summer than by paying tribute to one of Broadway (and America's) brightest new stars, who made quite a splash in a regional summer show this year.

Broadway audiences may remember her from from her debut in The Woman in White, the spectacular if troubled Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, or as the sweet ingenue/suspect in Kander and Ebb's Curtains.  Or maybe you caught her this summer down in Virginia as Florence, in the Signature Theatre production of Chess.  She plays all types, in all eras, in any type of show you throw at her.  No matter what you may have seen her in, by now you know she is a star on the rise force to be reckoned with!

Here she is, boys!  Ms. Broadway September 2010...Jill Paice!

Her headshot and publicity pose...

Her London and Broadway debut...

... in The Woman in White

(with Maria Friedman (center) and

Angela Christian (right))

It was back to Broadway in...

the song and dance murder mystery musical...

Curtains...

with co-star and Tony-winner,

David Hyde Pierce!

 

Then it was back to London to star as

Scarlett O'Hara in the ill-fated

(and nearly 4 hour long) Gone with the Wind

Paice with her Rhett,

Darius Danesh

She took time from her busy

West End and Broadway schedule

to co-star in Signature Theatre's

Ace, here with Matthew Scott.

And her most recent Broadway return

in The 39 Steps...

in which she played

ALL of the female roles!

Currently (through October 3),

she stars as Florence in Chess.

Florence and the Russian, Anatoly,

played by Euan Morton.

Paice (center) with Chess co-stars

Euan Morton (left) and Jeremy Kushnier (right).

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Jeff

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