Luba Mason
| Luba Mason | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lubica Anna Gregusova (Lubitza Gregus) Astoria, Queens, NY |
| Occupation | Actress and singer |
| Years active | 1987 to present |
| Spouse(s) | Rubén Blades |
| Website | http://www.lubamason.com |
Luba Mason is an American actress, singer, songwriter and dancer. She has starred on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theaters in plays and musicals and television and film. As a singer, she has performed in International Jazz and Music Festivals as well as major jazz and music clubs around the country. Mason has trademarked her own musical format called Mixtura, "a blend of different musical currents."
Mason was born in Astoria, Queens in NYC, a first-generation American of Slovak descent. She studied classical piano for 12 years starting at the age of 5, trained classically in voice with teachers from The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, and dance with Lee Theodore and The American Dance Machine. Mason also received a BFA in Drama from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Circle in the Square Theatre School.
Mason's 15-plus year Broadway career began with Tommy Tune's Tony Award-winning The Will Rogers Follies, first as the second Ziegfeld Follies girl from the left, then taking over the sassy starring role of "Ziegfeld's Favorite". Next came her break-through comedic role of Hedy LaRue in the first revival of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick and directed by Des McAnuff. Significant roles followed as the mourning mother Mrs. Kresinsky in Paul Simon's The Capeman, the doomed Lucy Harris in Jekyll & Hyde replacing Linda Eder, and later playing the hardened Velma Kelly opposite Brooke Shields' Roxy Hart in Chicago, directed by Walter Bobbie. Other roles included playing opposite Sid Caesar at the Golden Theater in Sid Caesar & Company directed by Martin Charnin, Joanna in Trevor Nunn's American premiere of Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close and a debut on Broadway as the tall, statuesque leather clad nightclub owner in the short lived Late Nite Comic. Mason can be heard on Broadway cast recordings of The Will Rogers Follies, How To Succeed In Business..., The Capeman and The Stephen Schwartz Album.
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