Kim Crosby (actress)

Kim Crosby (born July 11, 1960) is an American singer and musical theatre actress. She was the original Cinderella in the Sondheim-Lapine musical Into the Woods.

Crosby was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas and grew up in Springfield, Missouri. She attended Southern Methodist University and the Manhattan School of Music, and she is a former America's Junior Miss.

Crosby appeared in the Broadway production of Jerry's Girls in 1985-86. She then created the role of Cinderella in Into the Woods in 1987, playing the role in the tryout at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and on then Broadway.

It was in this production that she met her future husband, actor Robert Westenberg, who starred opposite her as Cinderella's Prince (and also as the Wolf). Her next Broadway role was in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, where she was a replacement as Sarah Brown. She reprised the role of Cinderella at the benefit performance of Into the Woods on November 9, 1997 at The Broadway Theatre.

Off-Broadway, at the York Theatre, she played Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard and Jane Seymour in the musical Six Wives in 1992, and Marsius in Philemon in 1991.

Crosby starred as Laurey in the national tour of Oklahoma! opposite John Davidson and Jamie Farr. She also toured for two years with Fred Waring and His Young Pennsylvanians. In regional theatre, she played Maria in West Side Story at The Springfield Little Theatre, Anne in A Little Night Music at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, (1986), Hope Langdon in Something's Afoot at the Birmingham Theatre; David Gordon's The Mysteries and What's So Funny? at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jessie Pullman in the musical Georgia Avenue (July - August 1985) at Goodspeed Musicals, Norma Terris Theater in East Haddam, Connecticut. She appeared in workshop productions of Six Wives, Fahrenheit 451, Grovers Corners, and Jekyll & Hyde. She appeared as Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century at Barrington Stage in 2001. More recently, she played Sally Durant Plummer in Follies (2005) with the Barrington Stage Company.

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