Career
Born in New York City, she made her Broadway debut in George M! in 1968, then, in the hit Office-Broadway production of Dames at Sea.Ackerman"s additional Broadway credits include another major success, The Magic Show with Doug Henning, the short-lived So Long, 174th Street, and the title role in the original Los Angeles production of Evita. She was in the original cast of Starting Here, Starting Now. She also appeared in the off Broadway productions of Diamonds and The Petrified Prince.
Her last Broadway cr was Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber"s Cats, in which she sang the famous song "Memory".
Ackerman recently debuted her show Next To Abnormal in New York City. In August 2011, she starred at Gateway Playhouse in, Long Island, as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard