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Fresh Face: The Little Mermaid Star Sierra Boggess
Age: 25
Currently: Becoming part of Broadway's world in her debut as the title character in Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Hometown: The bubbly Boggess was raised in Denver, where she created the role of Ariel during The Little Mermaid's pre-Broadway run at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. "Who gets to do that?" she says incredulously. "That was the coolest thing, because everyone I knew growing up got to be there—the people who knew you when you were in middle school and wore baggy T-shirts every day and didn't look that great. They keep you in your place!"
Vegas, Baby: The path to Broadway for its newest star was at once bumpy and altogether charmed. "I got my Equity card as soon as I graduated from Millikin University [in Illinois], and I've been lucky—I never had to get a day job," Boggess says. Still, she expected to make her Broadway debut before now. Her first post-college musical, David Zippel's Princesses, failed to make its planned move to the Great White Way after two out-of-town runs. Boggess quickly moved on to the national tour of Les Miserables as the Cosette cover, followed by a gig opening the Las Vegas production o
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Sierra Boggess
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Previous Broadway credits include the Tony nominated musical School Of Rock, It Shoulda Been You directed by David Hyde Pierce, two separate engagements of the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera (the first for the show’s 25th Anniversary and the second opposite Norm Lewis), the revival of Master Class (opposite Tyne Daly) and The Little Mermaid (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, Audience Choice Award). London theatre credits include Les Misérables, the 25th-anniversary concerts of The Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall and Love Never Dies (Olivier Award nomination). Other New York theater credits include the recent Off-Broadway production of The Goodbye Girl, Harmony, Manhattan Concert Productions’ The Secret Garden at Lincoln Center; the one-night-only concert of Guys & Dolls at Carnegie Hall opposite Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson and Megan Mullally; the final Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and Music in the Air for City Center’s Encores! series. She also starred as Christine Daae in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera. Regionally, she has been seen in The Secret Garden (CTG), A Little Night Music (Barrington Stage Company), Into the W