Connie Champagne: Difference between revisions

'''Connie Champagne''', née Kelly Kay Brock,<ref>{{cite web|last=Whiting|first=Sam|title=Connie Champagne almost a born Garland|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Connie-Champagne-almost-a-born-Garland-3261684.php|work=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=February 12, 2013|date=June 17, 2010}}</ref> born November 23, 1959 is an American singer, song-writer and actor.<ref name=BW>{{Citation| last = Lovendusky | first = Eugene | title = Connie Champagne in 'Yellow Brick Road' at NCTC Opens 7/14| newspaper = Broadway World| pages = | year = | date = July 14, 2007| url = http://sanfrancisco.broadwayworld.com/article/Connie_Champagne_in_Yellow_Brick_Road_at_NCTC_Opens_714_20070714| accessdate =January 25, 2010}}</ref> She won the ''SF Weekly'' Wammie Award for Outstanding Cabaret/Lounge Performer.<ref name=BW /> She is known for performing the character of actress, Judy Garland including ''Christmas With the Crawfords'' in 2001 and ''Imagine Judy Garland: An Evening With Connie Champagne'' in 2003.<ref>{{Citation| last = Genzlinger| first = Neil| author-link = Neil Genzlinger| title = THEATER REVIEW; Dragging Out Essentials of a Holiday Perennial| newspaper = The New York Times | pages =  | year = | date = November 27, 2001 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/27/theater/theater-review-dragging-out-essentials-of-a-holiday-perennial.html?pagewanted=1| accessdate =January 25, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Guthmann | first = Edward | author-link = | title = Singer Connie Champagne brings Judy Garland to life -- as she might have been today| newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle| pages = | year = | date = June 26, 2003| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/26/DD132946.DTL| accessdate =January 25, 2010}}</ref> She won a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award (BACTC) for her role in ''Goodbye Yellow Brick Road''.<ref>{{Citation| last = Lipton| first = Brian| author-link = | title = Hines, Lumbly, Payne, Ruta, Woods, et al. Win 2007 BACCA Awards| newspaper = Theater Mania| pages = | year = | date = March 7, 2008| url = http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/news/03-2008/hines-lumbly-payne-ruta-woods-et-al-win-2007-bacca_12937.html| accessdate =January 25, 2010}}</ref> Specializing in numerous styles of music and theater including cabaret, swing, jazz, rock and roll, and musical theater, Champagne performed in numerous venues throughout the US and Europe.