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Rosemary Loar

Rosemary Loar’s theatrical expertise was honed on Broadway and national tours. She was in the original casts of Sunset Boulevard, (starring Glenn Close) and Chess. The iconic revival production of You Can’t Take It With You, (starring Jason Robards), Cats, (critically acclaimed as Grizabella), Once Upon A Mattress, (starring Sarah Jessica Parker/understudy to Queen Aggravain), Encores (at Radio City) and 42nd Street (understudy Dorothy Brock). Off- Broadway in Radio Gals she originated the role of Gladys Fritts (a quirky flapper with a penchant for poetry, operatic singing) and was the winner of The Phoebe Award for Best Actress in a Musical in her portrayal of Ivyin Fair And Tender Ladies. Ms. Loar played Grandma Who in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas at the Pantages Theater in Los Angles and twice at Madison Square Garden Theater. Favorite regional roles include: Mama Rose, Gypsy, Vivian Bearing PhD., Wit, Carlotta. Phantom, Mame in Mame, Vi, Footloose, Ms Goldberg (William Finn’s In Trousers), Miss Shields A Christmas Story and Aoiffe Outside Mullingar.

​Rosemary influences are eclectic. Her first five years in New York City were spent performing a critically acclaimed jazz cabaret act, where she wrote the arrangements and broke new ground in what was then, a very homogenous venue. She left cabaret to go the the bigger stages of Broadway but has since returned. She has sung at Birdland, The Iridium, The Metropolitan Room, The Laurie Beechman Theater, Don’t Tell Mama, Town Hall (Cabaret Convention), Symphony Space, Upstairs at Sardi’s, Hotel Pierre, in LA at the Gardenia and MBar, in Chicago at The Tambourine Room and every summer in Munich, Germany. She received the Hanson Award for continued excellence in Cabaret in March 2012.

Her cabaret show When Harry Met The Duke was given a rave by BroadwayWorld.com which said the show was "Out of this world" and "Loar.. has managed to come up with yet another variation, (on The Great American Songbook) and her erudite and accessibly sophisticated new show featuring wonderful jazz, pop, and Broadway songs from the 1930s-'50s goes down like a delicious vodka martini topped with a skewer of blue cheese-stuffed

olives." Most recently Loar had her Joe’s Pub Debut with her latest cabaret creation “STING*chronicity:v Loar doesn’t simply rearrange numbers; she re-contextualizes them, morphing into a series of characters that sing each song as it arises out of an imagined situation. This unique show is audacious, well calibrated, and juicy. You'll never listen to Sting the same" BroadwayWorld.com.

She was a headliner for the PBS special, New Years Eve with Guy Lombardo. Rosemary Clooney was rushed to the hospital and Rosemary Loar came to the rescue: with all the keys a fourth higher. As a concert performer she has appeared

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