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Ali Ewoldt (born October 6, 1982) is a Filipino-American theatre actress, who made her
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debut in the ''
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'' revival in 2006, playing
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. She has also performed on national and international tours and in U.S. regional theatre. She became well known as the first Asian-American actress to star as Christine Daaé in ''
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'' on Broadway.


Life and career

Ewoldt was born in Chicago to a
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mother and a Euro-American father and raised in
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. After performing as a child in a nearby regional theater and in
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in high school, she went on to graduate ''cum laude'' from
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. Ewoldt performed the role of
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in
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, and she also worked at the
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theme park before appearing in a U.S. tour of ''
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''. She began the tour as a member of the ensemble, and later understudied the role of
Cosette Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel ''Les Misérables'' by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an u ...
, before she finally received the role during the tour. She then played Cosette in the ''Les Misérables'' Broadway revival in 2006.''Les Misérables''
"Who's Who in the Cast"
,
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, ''
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'', November 9, 2006, accessed December 24, 2012 From 2009 to 2011, Ewoldt starred in North American tour and in the 50th anniversary international tour of ''
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''. In 2015, she played Tuptim in a tour of ''
The King and I ''The King and I'' is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margaret Landon's novel '' Anna and the King of Siam'' (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the childre ...
'', where she "received the loudest applause from the audience after she sang her stirring, operatic interpretation of 'My Lord and Master' ". Other regional theatre roles include Luisa in ''
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'' at the Mt. Washington Valley Theatre Co. In 2015, she appeared in ''The King and I'' revival on Broadway. On June 13, 2016, she joined the Broadway company of ''The Phantom of the Opera'' as the show's first Asian-American
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. Ewoldt sang the role of Briella (Dorabella) in Salastina's world premiere of Vid Guerrerio's production of ''OC Fan Tutte'' for Salastina in Los Angeles, an updated English-language version of Mozart's 1790 opera ''
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''.


Performance credits


See also

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Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area constitute one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the United States, and one of the largest and most prominent Filipino diasporas in the Western Hemisphere. By 2014 Census estimates, the New York C ...


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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ewoldt, Ali 1982 births Living people Actors from Park Ridge, Illinois People from Pleasantville, New York 21st-century American actresses American musical theatre actresses Actresses from New York (state) American actresses of Filipino descent Yale University alumni