Bistro and MAC Award winning Broadway singer Georga Osborne was named one of the “Funniest People in Cabaret” by In Theater Magazine. She is a classically trained performer (with graduate degrees from Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music) who has taken her career into a mélange of entertainment genres including Broadway and cabaret stages as well as a foray into the land of television commercials.

 

Theatrically, as a singer and actor, Georga began at Carnegie-Mellon University (where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts). From there she blossomed into roles in Meet Me in St. Louis (original Broadway cast) and The Sound of Music (touring internationally in casts with both Debby Boone and Marie Osmond) and regionally in such shows as Carousel, Nine, Pirates of Penzance and Gypsy. Operatically, she made her solo professional debut in Madame Butterfly with the Pittsburgh Opera Theater with whom she later toured Germany and Switzerland as The Witch in Hansel und Gretl. Though Georga has mastered a sizable number of operatic roles, her true loves are musical theater and cabaret. A highlight for her was performing in (and covering Audra McDonald as the Beggar Woman) The New York Philharmonic’s celebrated production (and subsequent live recording) of Sweeney Todd starring Patti LuPone and George Hearn.

 

Osborne made her debut in the famed Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City on October 22, 2002 followed by another crowd pleasing performance at New York’s Town Hall on October 25^th. Her latest cabaret act opened at Don’t Tell Mama, New York’s popular cabaret room on October 27^th. It is here where Georga has presented her successful acts that have not only earned her the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy Performer and the coveted 2000 MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award also for Outstanding Musical Comedy Performer, but also the 2003 MAC Award for Summer in the Attic (Some're Not). She has performed her critically acclaimed one-woman shows in New York, London, Chicago, Palm Springs, Taos and a few other admirable stops along the way. Future engagements include more appearances in New York and London, and in Frankfort, Kentucky.

 

Career highlights include singing back-up vocals for pop star Björk and celebrating the Millennium, she was the featured soloist in the American premiere of “Disney’s Fantasia 2000” at Carnegie Hall.  On a personal note, one of Georga's oldest dreams was fulfilled (that of being a "girl Beatle") when she had a "hot date" with Paul McCartney at Carnegie Hall singing in the American debut of his orchestral work Standing Stone. Osborne also has made a CD “Now Available in Stores” and is available in stores in New York and London as well as on the aforementioned website www.glosong.com.

 

A native of pastoral Maysville, Kentucky, and the youngest of 7 girls, Ms. Osborne lives in Manhattan with her Shih-Tzu Mac, enjoying her active participation in all things entertaining and a great view from her aerie on the West Side.

September 2003

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