Marcia Mitzman Gaven

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Full Name	Marcia Mitzman Gaven
Occupation	Television Actor
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1959(1959-02-28)
Age	65
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Marcia Mitzman Gaven Biography

Marcia Mitzman Gaven is one of the most popular and richest Television Actor who was born on February 28, 1959 in New York, United States. Gaven was born Marcia Mitzman in New York City, New York on February 28, 1959. Patricia Mitzman, their mother, raised her and her siblings in Hastings-on- Hudson. She had previously been an artist. Their father, Newt Mitzman directed commercials and television specials for a living. When she was young, Gaven attended Hackley Elementary School in Tarrytown. She knew that she wanted to be in the show business at that age. She was able to attend the High School of Performing Arts despite the fact that it was closed to residents of New York City. After graduating from Purchase State University, she became a drama major. However, she didn’t earn a degree. In 1987, she said that she was kicked out by the State University of New York at Purchase because she missed a major rehearsal. She never applied for readmission as she had made her Broadway debut in Grease. Gaven was a student in Purchase’s productions of The Taming of the Shrew, Trumpets & Drums, and The Taming of the Shrew.

Gaven also played the role of Svetlana, the Russian chess player’s wife, in the Broadway production of Chess in 1988. She was highly praised by critics. She was also featured as Carol Bates in the Broadway musical Welcome to the Club the following year. The story centers on four men who were sentenced for not paying alimony. Gaven plays one of the wives in the musical. Both Chess as well as Welcome to the Club failed. John Simon, a New York Magazine critic of the musical, praised Gaven’s performance and wrote: “The cast ranges between the charmless to […] this mess. Marcia Mitzman is the only one who stands out from the crowd. When she plays the right role in the right show, it’s a great success. Michael Kuchwara, an Associated Press drama critic, also wrote negative about Welcome to the Club and praised Gaven for showing a “sympathy [for her character]” that wasn’t evident in the book.

Gaven resided in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1993, when she had to move to New York City to act in The Who’s Tommy. However, her stay in the city was short because of the allergic reaction and she moved back to Los Angeles. While performing in musicals, Gaven had to be protective of her vocal cords and this affected her personal life. She told Miller in 1997 that “you have to give up so much of your life”, and gave the example that when “somebody coughs behind me [at the cinema] I immediately say to my husband, ‘We may have to move.'” She also had to avoid shouting. Gaven is currently married to Seth Gaven who owns AV Squad, a film marketing company.

In December 1990, Gaven once again appeared as Nancy in a revival of Oliver!—this time in a production at 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington. A theatre critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted that she “has the voice to anchor anything you’d care to name, even the 5th Avenue Theatre. 5th Avenue performers often sound as if they were speaking and singing through a football stadium public address system. But Mitzman overpowers malevolent acoustics.” After Oliver!, she appeared as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in Ahmanson Theatre’s production of A Little Night Music that was performed from April 18 to June 30, 1991 at James A. Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Gaven worked at 5th Avenue Theatre again in December 1991 in the musical Here’s Love. She portrayed the divorced Doris Walker, a single-working mother of a girl who doubts the existence of Santa Claus. During spring 1992, she played the love interest of a male songwriter and his best friend in the musical The Tin Pan Man (set in 1905) at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Gaven was a star in New York City Opera’s Broadway revival Brigadoon. She also played Meg Brockie at the New York State Theater in 1986. Meg is a villagers from a mysterious Scottish village, which appears only once every 100 years. According to Sy Syna, a magazine editor from The World & I Gaven was a “great crowd pleaser” for the role. Gaven was also part of the New York City Opera’s spring 1987 revival South Pacific. She played the role of Nellie Forbush (a U.S Navy nurse who serves on an island in South Pacific during World War II). The nine-week South Pacific run had an alternate cast. Nellie was also played by Susan Bigelow. In July of that same year, during New York City Opera’s regular season she was cast in Sweney Todd, playing Mrs. Lovett. She makes and sells meat pie made from the victims.

Marcia Mitzman Gaven Net Worth

Marcia Mitzman Gaven is one of the richest Television Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marcia Mitzman Gaven 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Marcia Mitzman Gaven, an American actress, was born February 28, 1959. She has been a part of many musicals since her time at the State University of New York, Purchase and High School of Performing Arts. She made her Broadway debut in 1979 as Betty Rizzo, the replacement actress for the original Grease star. She appeared in the musicals Zorba!, Oliver!, Zorba!, Nine, Anything Goes! Chess and Welcome to the Club in the 1980s. She also performed in the operas Brigadoon and South Pacific in the 1980s.

Gaven was only twenty-years old when she took over the role of Betty Rizzo, the replacement actress, in Grease’s original Broadway production. This was her Broadway debut. She was the leading role of Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, which ran six nights at Warner Theatre in late 1980. The story is about Brad and Janet who get lost and end up in the laboratory with an alien doctor. Gaven was also praised by critics. She was the Londoner who played Oliver in the 1984 revival. She was a Broadway understudy and played the main role of Nancy. Gaven also played the role as The Widow in Zorba’s Broadway revival that year. She was later stoned to death by the townpeople for her involvement in the suicide attempt of a young boy. In 1985, she played the role of Luisa, the wife and director of an Italian movie.

In Pioneer Theatre Company’s fall 1988 production of Anything Goes, Gaven played the lead role of nightclub singer Reno Sweeney. It is set on an ocean liner on which Reno helps the character Billy Crocker win the heart of the engaged Hope Harcourt who he has fallen in love with. While reviewing the musical for the Deseret News, Joseph Walker commented that Gaven “is sensational as Reno Sweeney, the saucy, sassy hoofer-with-a-heart-of-gold. She has an arresting presence and a golden voice; the whole show always seems better when she’s on stage.” At the end of 1988, Gaven returned to the musical Oliver! in a Theatre Under The Stars production in Houston, starring as Nancy. A critic for the Houston Chronicle commended her performance, writing that she “acts the compassionate Nancy with warmth and spirit, and sings in a strong voice full of character.”

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It was announced on May 10, 1993 that The Who’s Tommy had received eleven Tony Award nominations, tying with Kiss of the Spider Woman for the most nominations that year. Gaven received a nomination in the “Best Featured Actress in a Musical” category. However, as the result of an allergic reaction, she could not perform in the musical some nights. When Daryl Miller interviewed Gaven in the Los Angeles Times in 1997, he noted that “this was one of the biggest disappointments of her life, and clouds cross her face for the first time in the conversation. She glances across the room at the Tony citation—recognizing her nomination for best featured actress in a musical—as she describes how her throat became infected due to a reaction to the oil in a haze-making compound that designers pump onstage to enhance lighting effects. She missed a lot of performances, and an untold number of Tony voters missed her performance. She can’t help but wonder how that affected the outcome.” At one point, Gaven’s understudy Alice Ripley took her place for eight consecutive weeks while Gaven recovered. Gaven eventually had to leave The Who’s Tommy some months after it opened because of her allergy. She also disliked the idea of performing in one musical for more than a year.

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Gaven has had a prominent career in musical theatre and has appeared in many rock musicals. She told TheaterWeek in 1993 that she thinks those kinds of musicals are harder to sing in compared to standard musicals, and that “the nature of rock and roll is that it’s on the edge. It’s written to be done dangerously. You can’t be careful and do it at the same time. If you don’t do it dangerously, you run the risk of losing the impact.” During her career, Gaven has sung in both mezzo-soprano and soprano roles, and has been cited for her belting. According to Alvin Klein, theatre critic for The New York Times, she “is categorically a mezzo soprano.” Gaven has also been noted for her strong voice, and was once told by a sound technician at An Evening Dinner Theater in Elmsford, New York that “We always turn off the mikes when you sing” because she did not need amplification.