Kim Criswell (born July 19, 1957) is an American musical entertainer and actress.
In September 1991, she presented her one-woman show Doin What Comes Naturally, at the Shaw Theatre in London. She has lived in London since 1992, when she was invited to play Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun.
On August 1, 2009, she was a featured soloist in the "The Proms: a Celebration of Classic MGM Musical film" at the Royal Albert Hall. On that evening she performed a number of songs including: "The Trolley Song", "Over the Rainbow" and "Get Happy" all originally made famous by Judy Garland. She additionally performed the songs "I Got Rhythm" (also in Garland's repertoire) and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in a duet with Seth MacFarlane. On October 4, 2009, she was a featured artist at the Broadway to West End Gala in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She repeated her Proms Concert success when she appeared in a Rodgers and Hammerstein evening, once again with the John Wilson Orchestra at The Royal Albert Hall with opera singer Rod Gilfry in August 2010.
In January 2012, she performed at Vienna's Volksoper, starring in Bernstein's Candide.
Side By Side (1988) | Soloist |
Side By Side By Sondheim | Soloist (won the Helen Hayes Award!) |
Annie | Star to be / Ensemble |
Annie Get Your Gun (1992) | Annie Oakley |
Anything Goes (studio recording) | Reno Sweeney |
Baby (Dec 4, 1983) | Narrator, 6th woman, people in town |
Dames At Sea (1996) | Ruby |
Dubarry Was A Lady | |
Elegies For Punks And Raging Queens (1993) | Soloist |
The First (1981) | Girl at bat/Dodger wife/Hilda Chester |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (May 1991) | Dorothy Shaw |
Girl Crazy | Kate (?) |
Glory Of Easter | Virgin Mary (Mary Magdalene for 1 performance) |
Guys And Dolls | Miss Adelaide |
The History Of The Musical by Richard Fawkes (Naxos Audiobooks) | Narrator |
Kiss Me Kate | Lois Lane/Bianca |
Lady Be Good (2000) | |
Let Em Eat Cake (March 21, 1994) | Mary Turner |
Man Of La Mancha (2000 Covent Garden Festival) | Aldonza / Dulcinea |
Nine | Francesca, (U/S Claudia, Carla,) |
Of Thee I Sing (June 27, 1998) | Diana Devereaux |
On The Town | Hildy the taxi driver |
One Touch Of Venus | |
Sitting Pretty | |
Slow Drag (1997) | June Wedding |
Strike Up The Band | |
Trouble in Tahiti (12 October 2008, BR Klassik 403571900300) | Dinah |
Wonderful Town (1999) | Ruth |
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