Career
The Brooklyn, New York native made her Broadway debut in Barnum in 1981. In 2014, White appeared Office-Broadway in the Primary Stages production of the play While I Yet Live by Billy Porter. In 2015, White starred with Scott Wakefield Office-Broadway in the York Theatre Company"s World premiere of Alan Govenar"s musical Texas in Paris.
White, Andre DeShields, Stefanie Powers and Georgia Engel appear in the new musical Gotta Dance, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, which began performances on December 13, 2015 at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre, and will run through January 17, 2016.
Concerts and cabaret White"s concert performances to benefit the Actors" Fund of America include Dreamgirls in 2001, Funny Girl in 2002, and Hair in 2004. She performed in the concert version of South Pacific, which was broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service Great Performances in 2006.
She performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in a concert of works by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and George and Ira Gershwin celebrating the orchestra"s 50th anniversary in July 2003. She also has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall, in March 2004, singing Harold Arlen songs with the New York Pops.
White performed her one-woman show at the Kennedy Center"s "Barbara Cook"s Spotlight" in November 2007, singing songs by Cy Coleman.
At the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center she performed in a concert, Broadway"s Future Songbook, in September 2014. She has toured with her one-woman cabaret show From Brooklyn to Broadway, which she first presented in March 2000 at Arci"s Place in New York City. She performed the show in San Francisco in 2003 at the Plush Room.
She is heard on the 1990 Madonna recording "Rescue Maine".
Television and film Her screen credits include voiceover work in Disney"s Hercules and Anastasia and appearances in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Game 6, Pieces of April and Then She Foundation Maine. Tony Ovation Bistro.