Christiane Noll
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Christiane Noll is a singer and actress known for her work in musicals and on the concert stage.
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[edit] Life and career
Noll was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. She is the daughter of conductor Ron Noll and soprano Sara-Ann Noll. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2007, Noll plans to marry actor Jamie LaVerdiere, who is scheduled to appear in the Broadway production of the musical The Pirate Queen, beginning on March 5, 2007. Noll has established the Charlotte Black Memorial Fund as an endowed award.
[edit] Stage work
Noll created the role of Emma in the Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde in 1997 after playing the role in out-of-town tryouts. She also appeared on Broadway in the revue, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues (1999). Noll earned good notices for her performances as Kathie in The Student Prince (2000 at the Paper Mill Playhouse) and Marianne in City Center ENCORES! The New Moon (2003). Noll received an Ovation Award for her roll as Hope Cladwell in the National Tour of Urinetown (2004). She also created the role of Vanna Vane in The Mambo Kings musical (2005).
Noll has been a member of the National Tours of Grease, as Sandy, Miss Saigon, as Ellen, and City of Angels, as Mallory/Avril, as well as a tour of Australia and Thailand as Nellie in South Pacific. She performed with Plácido Domingo in the Washington National Opera's The Merry Widow as Valencienne at The Kennedy Center (2005). Other stage credits include Mabel in Mack & Mabel (for which she won a Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Lizzie in Lizzie Borden (2001 at Goodspeed Opera House), The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Carrie in Carousel, A Fine & Private Place, as Laura (2006 off-Broadway), and Mabel in Eugene Opera's The Pirates of Penzance (2006). Regional performances include Oliver!, All Night Strut, Cinderella, Annie, 42nd Street, My Fair Lady, and Sweeney Todd.
[edit] Concert, cabaret and recording work
Noll frequently performs broadway favorites in concert and has been a guest soloist as part of Bravo Broadway with the National Symphony and Marvin Hamlisch, The Cincinnati Pops, The Jerusalem Symphony, The Philadelphia Pops and Peter Nero, and has sung with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, The San Francisco Symphony, and the Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio, Brazil. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson, in his last New York Pops performance, as part of 3 Broadway Divas.
Noll also performs a solo cabaret show and has been a featured member of the Broadway Inspirational Voices Gospel Choir.
Noll has released three solo CD’s, Christiane Noll - A Broadway Love Story (1998), The Ira Gershwin Album (2001) and Live at the Westbank Café (2003). She supplied the singing-voice of Anna in the Warner Brothers animated feature The King and I (1999). Some of her numerous recordings are Jekyll & Hyde (1997), The King & I (1999, Sony Classics), Little by Little (1999), A Christmas Survival Guide (2000), What's a Nice Girl Like You..., Z: The Masked Musical (2000), Bravo Broadway 2, The Three Broadway Divas, Far from the Madding Crowd (2000), The New Moon (2003), Neo: A Celebration of Emerging Talent in Musical Theatre, Benefiting the York Theatre Company (2005), and albums of the music of Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach, Paul Simon, andStephen Schwartz, among others.
