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Danelson was born in Union County, New Jersey.
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Christine Danelson
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Christine Danelson is an American actress best known as the understudy for the role of Tracy in the national tour of the Broadway musical Hairspray Danelson performed as Tracy nearly 60 times during the tour, and was critically well-regarded, with one Reno reviewer commenting "As Tracy, Danelson is the show"s centerpiece and she"s terrific.".
Career
She trained at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, and at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey. Danelson has appeared in two Law & Order episodes and in two feature films, My Sassy Girl and Burn Card. In 2010, she graduated cum laude from Kean University in Union, New Jersey where she was named the 2008 Kean Idol.
In June 2010, Christine Danelson was a part of the Office-Broadway production of Cloaked, a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Later that year, she starred as the lead in Hairspray at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Christine was very well received at the Paper Mill and received many outstanding reviews.
Peter Filichia of The Star-Ledger suggested that show was better than Broadway stating:
"A young veteran of the show’s national tour, Christine Danelson is a joyful sweetheart as Tracy, with a mischievous Bette Midleresque face and a strong, yet fittingly cooing voice. Effortlessly gyrating through the dances — even when she snapped a shoe strap during the finale on opening night — Mississippi
Danelson blesses Tracy with a touch of vulnerability that makes viewers root for her ingenuous character’s triumph over Baltimore’s racism and skinnier girls.".
