Featured Guest Artist
Carousel in Concert
Rebecca Luker
Rebecca Luker was mot recently seen on Broadway in NINE playing the role of Claudia Nardi. She starred on Broadway as Marian Paroo in The Music Man (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award nomination & Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) and was most recently seen Off-Broadway in Can't Let Go (Keen Company) and The Vagina Monologues.
Other Broadway credits include Maria in The Sound of Music (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); Magnolia in Showboat (Tony Award nomination), Lily in The Secret Garden (Drama desk nomination) Christine in The Phantom of the Opera; X (The Life and Times of Malcom X) and Brigadoon with the New York City Opera.
Ms. Luker has performed leading roles at regional theatres throughout the country including Clara in Passion at the Kennedy Center, Julia in Time and Again at the Old Globe, Mary in Harmony (Drama-Logue Award) at the La Jolla Playhouse and Amalia in She Loves Me with the Reprise! series in Los Angeles. In concert she as appeared in Pardon My English, Primrose, and Babes in Arms, all at the Library of Congress; Jubilee and Music in the Air at Town Hall; at Carnegie Hall: No, No Nanette; Trouble in Tahiti; Gay Divorce; The Art of the Lyricist (Ira Gershwin Centennial Series); My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies and My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs (both on PBS); A Tribute to Billie Holiday and A Comden and Green Evening. With the Encores! Series at City Center: The Boys from Syracuse and two concerts with Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series honoring Arthur Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein. She has appeared with the Alabama, American, Baltimore, Birmingham, Cleveland, Columbus Detroit, Nashville, New Jersey, St. Louis, Chicago, Royal Stockholm and London Symphonies (to name a few!) as well as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Her television credits include the CBS Television Movie, Cupid and Cate; Matlock, An Evening with the Pops, An Oscar Hammerstein Celebration and A Tribute to Rodgers and Hart (PBS), The Kennedy Center Honors honoring Julie Andrews, and a Richard Rodgers Celebration with the Boston Pops (PBS). She is also featured in Toni Dove's film Spectropia.
Ms. Luker's recordings include a recently released solo recording, Leaving Home (PSClassics.com), Anything Goes; Rebecca Luker Sing Cole Porter; Aria, Aria 2 and Aria 3; The Boys from Syracuse; Wonderful Town; Annie Get Your Gun; Broadway Showstoppers; Jerome Kern Treasury and Brigadoon. Other recordings are Strike Up The Band, original cast recordings of The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden, Showboat and The Music Man, Placido Domingo: The Broadway I Love; Unsung Sondheim; Unsung Musicals II and Lost in Boston III.
Rebecca was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Montevallo. She resides in New York City with her husband, actor Danny Burstein, and her stepsons Alex and Zach.
