Debbie Gravitte
Singer/Actress
Tony Award Winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbin’s Broadway) is one of Broadway’s biggest personalities and has found herself in demand from the Broadway Stage to the concert stage and beyond. After making her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song, she went on to appear in Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award nomination), Blues in the Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Zorba, Chicago, and Les Miserables. Debbie has been seen in the Encore’s series productions of The Boys from Syracuse, Tenderloin and Carnival at New York’s City Center.
She has appeared as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Love Bite at the Walnut St. Theatre, Red, Hot and Blue at the Papermill Playhouse, as well as the West Coast premiere of The Goodbye Girl.
Debbie has performed her nightclub act worldwide, from New York’s Rainbow and Stars, 54 Below, and Birdland to London’s Pizza on the Park and back home to Atlantic City, where she performed with Jay Leno, Harry Anderson, and the legendary George Burns.
A favorite with symphony audiences, Debbie has sung with more than 175 orchestras around the world. She has toured with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, appeared with Lang Lang and the Chinese Philharmonic, in Beijing, along with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, The National Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, The N.Y. Pops with Skitch Henderson, the Atlanta Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Utah Symphony, as well as the St. Louis, Houston, Dallas and San Diego symphonies.
Overseas, Debbie has sung with the Moscow, London, Aalborg and Birmingham symphony orchestras, the Stockholm Philharmonic, as well as the Goetesborg and Jerusalem Symphonies, the Munich Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra Massimo del Palermo and Symphonica of Brazil, the Bilbao Phil and the Malaysian Philharmonic.
On television, Debbie co-starred on the CBS series Trial and Error, was seen on NBC’S Pursuit of Happiness and has starred in several specials for PBS, including “Live from Kennedy Center,” “The Boston Pops Celebrate Bernstein, Rogers and Hart” for Great Performances, and Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Celebration.
Debbie has four solo CD’s to her credit, including her latest release: Big Band Broadway, along with Defying Gravity, The MGM Album and Part of Your World: The Music of Alan Menken. Her other recordings include Calamity Jane, Unsung Sondheim, Lucky Stiff, Miss Spectacular, Louisiana Purchase, A Broadway Christmas, as well as Mack and Mabel in Concert: live from Drury lane Theatre, among others. She has sung with the New York City Ballet in Peter Martin’s Thou Swell, appeared with Bette Midler in Isn’t She Great, and she can be heard as one of the voices in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
Debbie is also the proud mother of three beautiful children.