Marni
Nixon's career includes Opera, (Seattle, San Francisco, Ford Foundation TV Opera
Cameos), Chamber and Symphony, Oratorio soloist and Grammy Nominated recordgs
both Popular and Classical (Boulez, Villa-Lobos, Ives, Schoenberg, Stravinsky,
Copland) including conductors Von Beinum, Wallenstein, Previn, Mehta, Stravinksy,
Stokowski, Mauceri, Slatkin and Bernstein.
Awards include Four Emmys for
Best Actress on her children's TV show called Boomerang and two Gold records
for Songs for Mary Poppins and Mulan (voice of Gandma Fa), 2 Classical
Grammy Nominations...Broadway includes Heidi Schiller in Sondheim's Follies,
and originating the roles of Sadie McKibben in Opal, and Edna in Taking
My Turn, and Aunt Kate in James Joyce's the Dead also on tour in LA
and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In Regional and Off-Broadway her roles
have included Nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Fraulien Schneider
in Cabaret, and recently Eunice Miller in Kander and Ebb's "70,
Girls, 70". In the recent Premiere of Richard Wagner's Opera Ballymore
at Skylight Opera in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (taped for PBS) she originated the role
of Mrs. Wilson. TV includes Boomerang (Children's show in rerun for
25 years, awarded 26 Emmy Awards and 4 personal Emmy's for Best Actress); The
Mothers in-Law; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; I've Got a Secret; To Tell
the Truth; frequent American Variety shows such as the Merv Griffin Show,
Hollywood Palace, Today show, Tonight show and The Harry
Secombe
Show in the British Isles, The Best of Both Worlds (her won Special)
on BBC and ITV. Formerly a frequentguest and side-kick for Liberace and Victor
Borge, her national tours include her show Marni Nixon: The Voice of Hollywood.
Recently she has been seen in many "the-making-of" documentaries. Film
roles include Aunt Alice in I Think I Do; Sister Sophia in The Sound
of Music. A much sought after judge of Metropolitan Opera Auditions,
National Association of Teachers and Singing, etc. Miss Nixon presents Master
Classes in Colleges and Universities and teaches privately throughout the USA.
Miss Nixon is the singing voice of Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn
in the Motion Pictures and on the Soundtracks of The King and I, An Affair
to Remember, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady. | |