Rebecca has been in demand for 30 years as a singer and actor in Canadian and international music theatre. Rebecca began her career in Hal Prince’s Canadian National Tour of The Phantom of the Opera with Jeff Hyslop and Patti Cohenour. Following the tour she joined Hal Prince’s Show Boat in Toronto, then the Canadian tour followed by the second national US tour and finally the Broadway tour where she worked with theatre and TV/film greats Elaine Stritch, Cloris Leachman, John McMartin, Ned Beatty, Robert Morse, Tom Bosley and Rebecca Luker.
Lead roles of note include Eva Peron in Evita for the Mayfield and Theatre Neptune, Marian in The Music Man (opposite Jeff Hyslop) for The Vancouver Playhouse, and The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella and Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia! For the Grand Theatre London. Another project close to her heart is a show called What a Wonderful World at the Victoria Playhouse Petrolia where she played opposite Tony Award winner Ben Vereen. She most recently played Rachel Lynde in the Charlottetown Festival’s production of Anne of Green Gables. Rebecca was fortunate enough to work with Graciela Daniele – the 2020 recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in Sousatzka the Musical where she also worked with Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire, Tony Award winner Victoria Clark and was understudy to Judy Kaye – Tony Award winner for her role as Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera.
Rebecca has developed an extraordinary working relationship with Drayton Entertainment, starring in 20 productions with roles including Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Katisha in The Mikado and Patsy Cline in A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. Patsy’s husband Charlie, on hearing Rebecca sing, exclaimed “She IS Patsy Cline!”
Internationally, Rebecca starred as Dorothy Brock in Troika’s production of 42nd Street at The Moscow Youth Palace choreographed by Tony Award nominee Randy Skinner and co-directed by Tony Award nominee Mark Bramble. In England, she played the role of Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Aldeburgh Festival and in the United States she was understudy to Tony Award winner Faith Prince in First Wives Club in Chicago at The Oriental Theatre, which was directed by Simon Phillips (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), choreographed by Emmy Award Winner David Connolly, and music overseen by original Motown composers Brian and Eddie Holland.
Rebecca’s most notable New York workshops include The Visit, working with theatre legend Angela Lansbury and John Kander, Fred Ebb, Terrence McNally and Frank Galati. Rebecca was also in New York’s NAMT Festival of New Works “In That Valley” working with music director ( music and lyrics by) Richard Oberacker (Bandstand: The New American Musical.
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