Julia Murney
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Julia Murney (2005)
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Julia Kathleen Murney January 14, 1969 State College, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, theatre performer |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Julia Kathleen Murney (born January 14, 1969) is an American actress, singer and theatre performer, primarily featured in theatre and television commercial voice-overs. Until 2005, she was commonly known as the Broadway actress who had technically never appeared on Broadway. This was because her fame came mostly from her performances on the Broadway charity circuit, and not traditional Broadway productions.
The daughter of actor Christopher Murney and Anne Murney, Murney was named after the song "Julia" from The Beatles White Album. She has a younger sister, Caitlin (born 1977), who is a film producer and lives in LA and younger brother, Patrick (born 1987), who graduated from Syracuse University with a drama degree in 2009.
She attended the High School of Music & Art (later Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School) as a voice major, and graduated from Syracuse University in 1990.
In her album I'm Not Waiting liner notes, Andrew Lippa says that he first met her in June 1996. He said
I was the music director for a Stephen Schwartz compendium called Snapshots, auditions were going well, if uninspiring, until a certain Julia Murney (with whom I was, at the time, unacquainted) strutted into the room. She sang a song, a forever favorite ever since, called Imagine My Surprise. Heartbreaking. Seeing as I was about to do the reading of The Wild Party in August, I wrote on my notes "Is she Queenie?!?!?" followed by several stars and excited doodles. Then, the director asked for another song, preferably something by Stephen Schwartz.
la Murney: I know Meadowlark
la director: That'd be great
I didn't bring the music
la pianist: (panic)
la Lippa: (heroically) I know it, what key? (oh, the swagger, the cock-suredness. I did want to impress her, after all)
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