She was an ensemble member whose characters were listed in Playbill as Factory Girl/Whore/Other Drinker/Young Prostitute. Crumb was about to turn 37 when she made her Broadway debut, in the original cast of “Les Misérables” (1987). While working as a clinician in Philadelphia, she appeared to have a change of heart and was soon off on the national tour of “ El Grande de Coca- Cola,” a musical farce about a Mexican cabaret. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music and theater at the University of Michigan but began a career in clinical medicine instead, doing some acting and singing on the side.

Crumb for best lead actress in a musical.Įlizabeth Ann Crumb was born in Charleston, W.Va., on May 25, 1950, the daughter of the composer George Crumb, who would win a Pulitzer Prize for music in 1968, and Elizabeth May (Brown) Crumb, a violinist.Īnn studied violin and hoped for a concert career, but that plan was derailed when, in her teens, she injured her right arm in a fall from a horse. Crumb too strident for the character, who throws away her reputation for the sake of a grand passion, Tony Awards insiders disagreed and nominated Ms. Her most honored Broadway appearance was the title role in a 1992 musical adaptation of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” Although Mel Gussow of The New York Times found Ms. It was Ms Crumb’s most visible role, but not her most lauded. The musical’s story, a three-generational European saga, focused on a French actress, Rose Vibert, and her sexual attraction to her husband, her husband’s young nephew and her husband’s mistress.

She reprised the role in the Broadway production, which opened the next year. It was said that she was the first American cast in a lead role in an original production of a Lloyd Webber musical. Crumb starred in “Aspects of Love” when it opened in London in 1989. Kevin McAnarney, her publicist, said the cause was ovarian cancer, which was diagnosed in 2015. Ann Crumb, the actress and singer who starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Aspects of Love” in both London and New York, died on Thursday at her parents’ home in Media, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia.

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