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La Cage aux Folles

Jane Labanz will play Marie Dindon in La Cage aux Folles at Little Theatre on the Square August 4-14, 2022. This iconic theatre has been around since the 1920’s when it was a movie house. Guy S. Little decided to

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News

*Booked Edith in the drama Diary of Anne Frank at Mill Mountain Playhouse. (This production has been canceled due to covid.) * Booked Carnegie Hall guest singer for World Premiere of Turn the World Around.  * Callback for “Lily” and

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I Love a Piano (Again!)

It is always nice to be requested to do a show, rather than auditioning, and that is what happened when I was asked to play “Sadie” in I Love a Piano this summer at Totem Pole Playhouse. This is the

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I Love a Piano

The run of  I Love a Piano, at Milwaukee Rep, was a sold out success of 64 Irving Berlin songs. I played the role of “Eileen.” Singing “Suppertime” as “Eileen” in I Love a Piano at Milwaukee Rep. “Labanz, delivers

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Upcoming Performance

I am pleased to announce that I will be performing the role of “Eileen” in I Love a Piano at Milwaukee Rep beginning late October, 2016.  It should be grand and wild fun, because 3 of the 4 actors will

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Between the Gigs News

* Booked solos concert for Book in the Hollow book club in Dallas, TX. * Callback for Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods at Forestburg Playhouse, NY. * Callback for “Vi” in Buddy Holly Story, Theatre by the Sea, RI.

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The Nerd

There is something about an actor’s personality, be it A or B type, that must like the unknown. Always acclimating to a new cast, a new town, a new theatre, a new director, keeps you on your toes. But something

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Tuck Everlasting Final Performance

Tuck Everlasting is a show I adore and I was so happy to be a part of its history, whether or not life takes me on the ride with it to New York, or whether it doesn’t, because of all

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Tuck Everlasting Photo Release

What a thrill to work with Casey Nicholaw, and the rest of the creative team, on the World Premiere of Tuck Everlasting in Atlanta. Rewrites, new songs, an extremely talented cast, gorgeous costumes – the actor experience doesn’t get much better

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Tent Theatre

I have always enjoyed settling into a long run of a show, with new audiences every night, swings and understudies going in and out creating a new dynamic onstage, and always something to improve in my own performance. But those itty-bitty runs-they

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