Chelsea Krombach
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Biography
Krombach recorded two solo albums, Look for the Silver Lining and Profile (See below for more details.) Both of her albums are all-jazz and recorded live in one take with all real instruments. She attended the highly selective Interlochen Arts Camp after her freshman year of high school, starred in GodspellGodspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...
and Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League...
during her junior and senior years, and at the urging of her choir and band directors, attended the Jamey Aebersold Improvisation Clinic, where she fell hard for jazz. Krombach attended the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, where she majored in musical theatre. At U of M, she performed the role of Queenie from the musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
, The Wild Party
The Wild Party (Lippa musical)
The Wild Party is a musical with book, lyrics, and music by Andrew Lippa. It is based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name...
. She is featured on the CD for the musical Edges
Edges (musical)
Edges is a work of musical theatre by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. It is a song cycle about coming of age, growth and self-discovery of people mostly in their 20s...
as well as Forward, another musical in the making by Jonathan Gealt. Chelsea performed at the Musical Theatre of Wichita in Aida
Aida (musical)
Aida is a musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang, and produced by Walt Disney Theatrical....
as Amneris from August 3–7, 2005. In November 2007, Chelsea made her Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
debut in the hit Broadway musical Wicked
Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
, as the understudy
Understudy
In theater, an understudy is a performer who learns the lines and blocking/choreography of a regular actor or actress in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness or emergencies, the understudy takes over the part...
for Elphaba
Elphaba
Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway and West End adaptations, Wicked. In the original L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West is unnamed and little...
. Before transferring to the Broadway cast, Krombach performed as swing in the first national tour of Wicked, and as an understudy for Nessarose
Nessarose
Nessarose Thropp is the name of the woman who becomes the Wicked Witch of the East in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, Wicked...
. In 2008, Chelsea sang "The Wizard and I" at the Downtown Green Fair in lower Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
to help raise environmental awareness. Chelsea departed Wicked in January 2010, and is now performing in the ensemble of the Broadway Revival of Promises, Promises, also starring Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes.
Look for the Silver Lining
- Look for the Silver Lining
- You Made Me Love You
- All of Me
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Just Friends
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Just In Time
- Blues in the Night
- I Got Rhythm
- When I Fall in Love
- I’m Beginning to See the Light
Profile
Larry Fuller
Larry Fuller is an American choreographer, theatre director, dancer, and actor.Fuller began his career as a dancer/actor, appearing on Broadway in Carousel, The Music Man, Kean, Bravo Giovanni, and Funny Girl...
(the last pianist in the trio of the greatest bass player of all time, Ray Brown
Ray Brown (musician)
Raymond Matthews Brown was an American jazz double bassist.-Biography:Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one...
).
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Falling In Love With Love
- If I Were A Bell
- Stormy Weather
- It's Alright With Me
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- On The Street Where You Live
- But Not For Me
- L.O.V.E.
- Baby, Baby All The Time
- Lullaby Of Broadway
External links
- Official album websites
- Wicked Website
- Musical Theatre in Wichita
- Playbill.com biography
- http://www.chelseakrombach.com