Gina Ferrall obit

Gina Ferrall Dies: Broadway’s ‘Leopoldstadt’, ‘Mamma Mia!’ Actor Was 67

 

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Gina Ferrall, a Broadway performer whose career spanned decades in such productions as Mamma Mia!, Big River and, most recently, Tom Stoppard’s acclaimed Leopoldstadt, has died following a brief battle with uterine sarcoma. She was 67.

Ferrall’s death was reported yesterday by her husband, the Broadway drummer and percussionist Kory Grossman, to the theater publication Playbill.

Born September 6, 1958, in California, Ferrall made her Broadway debut as a replacement cast member in Les Misérables, followed by roles throughout the 1990s in Beauty and the Beast, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and The Sound of Music. In the early- to mid-2000s she appeared in Jane Eyre, Mamma Mia!, Big River, It Shoulda Been You and She Loves Me.

In Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt (2022), she played Poldi, the loyal servant to a wealthy Jewish family that comes under attack by Nazis during the Holocaust.

In national touring productions, Ferrall played Madame Morrible in Wicked and Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables.

Television credits include episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, FBI, Blue Bloods, The Good Cop, The Sound of Music Live!, and a 2017 presentation of She Loves Me on PBS’s Great Performances.

She is survived by her husband.

 

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