Pia Douwes

瞳色：藍(lán)色，發(fā)色：暗金色
身高：170cm
生日：1964年8月5日
出生地：阿姆斯特丹（荷蘭）
 
Pia Douwes于1964年8月5日出生在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹，是歐洲著名的音樂(lè)劇演員之一，她是Doris Day的侄孫女，父親是藝術(shù)收藏家，母親是社會(huì)工作者。起初，Pia想成為一名照料殘疾兒童的護(hù)士，然而19歲那年在迪斯科跳舞的經(jīng)歷使她意識(shí)到自己更想跳舞，于是她前往倫敦并在黃頁(yè)中選了Brooking芭蕾學(xué)校報(bào)名，應(yīng)試之前她沒(méi)有經(jīng)過(guò)任何專(zhuān)業(yè)的舞蹈學(xué)習(xí)，還扭傷了腳踝，但還是被錄取了。一年后她從倫敦芭蕾學(xué)校畢業(yè)，先后參加了Susi Nicoletti和Sam Cane的音樂(lè)劇課程，以及Carol Blaickner-Mayo和Noelle Turner的聲樂(lè)培訓(xùn)。據(jù)說(shuō)Cane當(dāng)時(shí)對(duì)Pia的父親說(shuō)：“如果她不成為巨星，我就上吊！”（爆）
 
1986年，Pia Douwes首次登上舞臺(tái)，在Little Shop of Horrors的維也納首演中扮演Chrystal一角。隨后又演了一些小角色，1987年她首次在大制作的劇目中演出：她在阿姆斯特丹的Cats中飾演小母貓。此后Cats歐洲巡演，1988年巡演團(tuán)來(lái)到俄羅斯，Pia擔(dān)任了Grizabella和Jellylorum的角色。從阿姆斯特丹到莫斯科、維也納，她把幾乎所有的母貓角色演了個(gè)遍。（后來(lái)在1995年8月10日她又以嘉賓的身份出席維也納的Cats公演，扮演Grizabella）
 
此后，1990年她主演經(jīng)典音樂(lè)劇West Side Story，1991年又在Les Misérables的荷蘭初演中成功塑造了Fantine一角，但最大的突破莫過(guò)于1992年，她在德語(yǔ)原創(chuàng)音樂(lè)劇《伊麗莎白》的維也納首演中領(lǐng)銜主演的Elisabeth皇后。盡管當(dāng)時(shí)的維也納報(bào)界發(fā)布了不少刺耳的評(píng)論，聲稱(chēng)“茜茜幻滅了”，完全不承認(rèn)Pia的演技和歌喉，但她（以及Uwe Kröger）依然成為了大受好評(píng)的音樂(lè)劇演員，而Elisabeth如今則是有史以來(lái)最成功的德語(yǔ)音樂(lè)劇。
 
Elisabeth的角色她一直演到1994年，此后她又先后主演了Grease、Cabaret、Evita、Rocky Horror Show、Chicago等音樂(lè)劇，獲得了極好的評(píng)價(jià)。
 
除了音樂(lè)劇及各種相關(guān)演唱會(huì)（與Victor Gernot，Uwe Kröger，Marika Lichter等朋友共同舉辦的一系列“In Love with Musical”四人演唱會(huì)等），話劇舞臺(tái)上也有Pia的身影：Other People's Money, Jane Eyre，Savannah Bay，此外，她還出演了電視劇Wilhemina，并且經(jīng)常作為特邀嘉賓出現(xiàn)在各種綜藝節(jié)目中。在兩集迪士尼卡通Pocahontas的荷蘭版中Pia Douwes是印第安公主Pocahontas 1&2的配音和配唱者。
 
1998年，在荷蘭著名音樂(lè)劇制作人Joop van den Ende的指導(dǎo)下，Elisabeth以超豪華的面貌登上了荷蘭舞臺(tái)。這次Pia Douwes以母語(yǔ)演繹，再度獲得觀眾的喝彩。荷蘭的公演落幕后，原班制作人馬又進(jìn)軍德國(guó)埃森，Pia第三次出演這位傳奇的奧地利皇后。在900場(chǎng)演出之后，她于2002年2月返回荷蘭，與Simone Kleinsma，Stanley Burleson等音樂(lè)劇演員一同出演百老匯劇目Fosse。
 
2003年3月，新劇3 Muskeiters在鹿特丹首演，Milady de Winter又是一個(gè)光彩奪目的形象。（順便說(shuō)一下，這出劇后來(lái)出了DVD，至今有售哦……汗，廣告時(shí)間嗎？）2004年4月，Pia先后在倫敦西區(qū)和百老匯的Chicago中演Velma Kelly，之前1999年她已經(jīng)在荷蘭首演版中演過(guò)，所以這是她駕輕就熟的角色，只是換種語(yǔ)言表演罷了。不過(guò)，她可是第一個(gè)在百老匯領(lǐng)銜主演的荷蘭演員:-）
 
2004年8月，Pia回到荷蘭出演Sondheim的名劇Passion，扮演Clara。2005年，德國(guó)版3 Musketiere在柏林上演，Pia第二次飾演Milady de Winter一角，她一直演到了2005年10月30日。2006年3月至今，Pia在荷蘭版Cabaret中飾演Sally Bowles，并將在夏季7月中旬前往Stuttgart擔(dān)任最后檔期的Elisabeth一角直至9月終演。
 
 
Pia Douwes (born on August 5, 1964) is a very successful Dutch actress in musical theatre in Europe. She is best known for having created the title role in the German-language musical Elisabeth.
 
Douwes was born in Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands, as Petronella Irene Allegonda Douwes, to an arts dealer and a social worker, and is the grandniece of Doris Day. Initially Douwes wanted to become a nurse for mentally handicapped children, then she danced in a disco when she was 19 years old and realised that she wanted to dance. She went to London and searched for a dance school in the Yellow Pages. She chose the Brooking School of Ballet. Without any prior dance education, she auditioned (with a sprained ankle) and was accepted. One year later she attended a musical workshop with Susi Nicoletti and Sam Cane in Vienna. Cane is said to have told Douwes' father at that time: &If she doesn't become a star, I'll hang myself!&
 
In 1986, she got her first small part in the German-language premiere of Little Shop of Horrors in Vienna. More small parts followed, and in 1987 she got her first part in a larger production, as an Swing in Cats in Amsterdam. With this production she toured Russia in 1988, playing Grizabella and Jellylorum.
 
More parts followed, including Fantine in the original Amsterdam production of Les Misérables in 1991, but the great break came in 1992, when she got the title role in the world premiere of Elisabeth in Vienna, Austria. Though the Viennese papers wrote a lot of scathing criticism, such as &Munter geht die Sisi unter& (&Sisi perishes&) and they denied Douwes singing and acting talent of any kind, Douwes became (along with Uwe Kröger) an acclaimed musical star and reprised the title role numerous times. Elisabeth is today the most successful German-language musical of all-time.
 
Until 1994 she played Elisabeth, then played more parts like Rizzo in Grease (Vienna) and Eva Perón in Evita in the Dutch touring production.
 
She was also active in other areas; she sang and spoke the leading part for the Dutch versions of the movies Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. Additionally she did the gala evenings In love with Musical along with her colleagues Uwe Kröger, Marika Lichter and Viktor Gernot.
 
In 1999 she played Velma Kelly in the Dutch premiere of Chicago. Then Douwes went back to her roots and played the leading part of Elisabeth again in the Dutch and German premieres of the musical. After a total of 900 performances as the Austrian empress, she went back to Holland in February 2002 to take part in the Broadway musical Fosse, along with Dutch musical stars Simone Kleinsma and Stanley Burleson.
 
In March 2003 she got the chance to play Milady de Winter in the world premiere of the Dutch musical 3 Musketiers (The Three Musketeers). The musical was later recorded (with her) and is now available on DVD.
 
In 2004 she played Velma Kelly in Chicago again, but this time she performed in the West End of London and then on Broadway, being the first Dutch actress to take a leading role in a production on Broadway.
 
Back again in Holland she played Clara in Passion. Then she went back to Germany to play Milady de Winter again in the German premiere of 3 Musketiere in Theater des Westens in Berlin. She played the part until October 30, 2005.
 
In 2007, she was seen as a judge on Op zoek naar Evita (In search for Evita), a Dutch reality show. The winner was cast as Eva Perón, a role Douwes played over a decade ago, in a new Dutch production of Evita.
 
In 2008, Pia was a judge on the German reality show Ich Tarzan du Jane in which they looked for both Tarzan and Jane to star in the German production of Tarzan and returned as a judge and coach on &Op zoek naar Joseph&, similar to the search for Evita, but this series searched for the male lead in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
 
In late 2008, she donned the turban as the infamous Norma Desmond in the Dutch touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, alternating in the lead role with her friend and previous Les Misérables, Chicago and Fosse co-star, Simone Kleinsma.
 
In 2009 she returned yet again to judge and coach the contestants of a new Op Zoek Naar... series, this time searching for the woman who would play Mary Poppins.
 
After the program ended, Pia played the role 'Velma Kelly' for six weeks on the West End in 2009.
 
From August 2010 until January 2011 she played the 'Killer Queen' in the rock musical We Will Rock You in Utrecht.
 
She then toured all over the Netherlands with the Dutch production of Master Class, in which she played the part of Maria Callas. The tour lasted until the end of May 2011, with two extra performances in September 2011.
 
Pia is currently playing the role of Mrs. Danvers in the Stuttgart production of Rebecca.
 
Pia Douwes is the most famous European musical actress alongside Ute Lemper. She has taken part in over 25 CD productions, and was a duet partner of José Carreras.
 
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