Pamela Myers (born July 15, 1947,
Hamilton, Ohio
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) is an American actress who made her
Broadway
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debut as Marta in
Stephen Sondheim
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's musical ''
Company
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'', in which she introduced the song "Another Hundred People". She was nominated for a 1971
Tony Award
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for
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. In 1975, she appeared in the original San Francisco cast of ''
Snoopy! The Musical
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''.
On television, she appeared as Mitzi the waitress on the ''Happy Days'' Season 2 episode "Goin' to Chicago". She was also a main supporting player on the show ''
Sha Na Na
Sha Na Na was an American rock and roll and doo-wop revival group formed in 1969. The group performed a song-and-dance repertoire based on 1950s hit songs that both revived and parodied the music and the New York City street culture of the 1 ...
'' (she also did the announcing). She appeared twice on ''
Alice
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'', once playing a tour guide named Bobbi who falls for Mel, and again playing a dental assistant, Ms. Dubro, who sang Broadway songs, rather off-key.
In 1986, she appeared in a production of ''
Sunday in the Park with George
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'' as Dot/Marie at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera. In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway revival of ''
Into the Woods
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The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. T ...
'' as
Cinderella
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's Stepmother and
Little Red Ridinghood’s Granny.
She directed a production of ''Company'' at
Xavier University
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in Cincinnati, Ohio, which premiered on April 12, 2019.
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1947 births
Living people
People from Hamilton, Ohio
American musical theatre actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from Cleveland
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
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