Lovette George (December 9, 1961 – September 6, 2006) was an actress and singer in Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions. Shows included '' Uptown... It's Hot!'' (1986), ''Carousel'' (revival) (1994), ''

Marie Christine ''Marie Christine'' is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Michael John LaChiusa. It opened on Broadway in 1999. Set in 1890s New Orleans and then 5 years later in Chicago; the story is loosely based on the Greek play ''Medea'', and uses el ...

'' (1999) and ''

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'' (2003). She understudied

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off-Broadway in ''

A New Brain ''A New Brain'' is a musical with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine. Though many of Finn's previous musicals were to some extent autobiographical, ''A New Brain'' dealt directly with his own harrowing experience ...

'' (1998)

.

Biography

Lovette George was born in Yonkers and drew part of her inspiration to perform from her mother, Carol, who is a concert singer. Lovette George earned a bachelor's degree in theatre from SUNY, the State University of New York at Binghamton. She played Carrie ("when Audra cDonaldwasn't", she wrote in her Playbill bio) in the acclaimed Lincoln Center production of ''Carousel'' and appeared in Broadway's ''Uptown...It's Hot'' with

Maurice Hines Maurice Robert Hines Jr. (born December 13, 1943) is an American actor, director, singer, and choreographer. He is the older brother of dancer Gregory Hines. Life and career Hines was born in 1943 in New York City to a Catholic couple, Alma Iola ( ...

. Playing a variety of musical theatre styles, she was nominated for a 2004 Drama Desk Award for ''

'' for the York Theatre Company and later in its commercial run at Dodger Stages. She is also heard on the cast album, spoofing the styles of

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, Kander and Ebb,

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals. Their popu ...

and

Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, ...

. She appeared as the lead role

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in the record-breaking German production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''

Starlight Express ''Starlight Express'' is a 1984 British musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern engines in the hope of ...

'' (and is on its cast album). Her credits also include off-Broadway's ''The Green Heart'' (Manhattan Theatre Club) and ''Eating Raoul'' and regional productions of ''Thunder Knocking at the Door'' (the Guthrie), ''The Hot Mikado'' (the Alliance) and ''The Most Happy Fella'' (St. Louis Rep/

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Death

Lovette George died on September 6, 2006 from

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, aged 44.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070226175908/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/101965.html {{DEFAULTSORT:George, Lovette American musical theatre actresses Actresses from Manhattan Deaths from ovarian cancer 2006 deaths Deaths from cancer in New York (state) 1961 births 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers 21st-century American women