Liz Callaway

Callaway worked across stage actor, voice actor, singer and musician. The registers place that work in pop music, musical theater and vocal music. This article rests on 70 catalogued compositions, 12 issued recordings and 12 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Liz Callaway • Born — 13 April 1961 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — * Actress • singer • recording artist • Years Active — 1979–present • Children — 1

Callaway was born in Chicago, Illinois to Shirley Callaway, a singer, pianist, and vocal coach, and John Callaway, a journalist. Her sister is actress, composer, and singer Ann Hampton Callaway, with whom she sang the theme song for the Fran Drescher comedy series The Nanny, which Ann Hampton Callaway also composed. Both sisters attended New Trier High School (New Trier East) in Winnetka, Illinois. Callaway has also appeared in a number of cabaret and stage productions with her sister. Recordings of two of them, Sibling Revelry recorded live at Rainbow and Stars in 1995 and Boom! recorded live at Birdland in 2011, have been released.

Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's short-lived Merrily We Roll Along (1981). This began a long-term professional relationship with Sondheim: Callaway has performed in a number of live concerts in his honor, appeared with Sondheim on Inside the Actors Studio, and also played the role of Young Sally in the Lincoln Center concert production of Follies with Mandy Patinkin, Barbara Cook, George Hearn, Lee Remick, Carol Burnett, Elaine Stritch, and the New York Philharmonic. Follies was recorded live and also filmed as a documentary. Additional stage credits include Lizzie in Baby (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), The Three Musketeers, The Spitfire Grill (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, and Miss Saigon. Liz also performed in The Look of Love, a 2003 musical revue of the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. As a replacement on Broadway, Callaway played the role of Grizabella for five years in Cats. Callaway also had her own children's television show on WNEV-TV in Boston, Ready to Go, which ran from 1987 to 1991, winning her an Emmy Award. She left this series to begin rehearsals for Miss Saigon on Broadway. In July 2012, she starred as Norma Desmond in the Pittsburgh CLO's new production of Sunset Boulevard Callaway has also provided the singing voices for a number of animated characters, including Anya/Anastasia in Anastasia, Kiara in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Princess Jasmine in The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, and Princess Odette in The Swan Princess. She has performed various cabaret acts at Joe's Pub, Rainbow and Stars, the Russian Tea Room, 54 Below, and Lincoln Center in New York City, and at the Donmar Warehouse in London, among other venues. Callaway's solo recordings include Anywhere I Wander (1993), The Story Goes On (1995), and The Beat Goes On (2001). She released her fourth recording, Passage of Time, for the record label PS Classics, on October 20, 2009, which featured an appearance with her sister Ann Hampton Callaway. In 2015 she released an album of songs from her most recognized work, The Essential Liz Callaway. In 2022 To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim was released, a live performance from 54 Below. Callaway has also released two Christmas recordings. Liz was honored at the 25th Annual Bistro Awards in New York City.

In 1985, Callaway married theatre director and producer Dan Foster, a founding producer of the Hudson Stage Company, a nonprofit, professional theatre company in residence at Pace University in Westchester County, New York. They have a son.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1981 — Senior Trip — Judy Matheson — Television film • 1987 — Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical – The House on East 88th Street — Mrs. Primm (singing voice) — Television film • 1993 — The Nanny — Performer on the opening theme — Performed with Ann Hampton Callaway • 2016 — The Mentors — Mentor — Episode: "Liz Callaway & Lauren Ashley Carter" • 2025 — Hazbin Hotel — The Speaker of God (speaking & singing voice) — Episode: "Storyteller"

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1981 — Merrily We Roll Along — Nightclub Waitress — Alvin Theatre, Broadway • 1982 — Cats — Grizabella (Replacement) — Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway • 1983 — Baby — Lizzie Fields — Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway • 1984 — The Three Musketeers — Lady Constance Bonacieux — Broadway Theatre, Broadway • 1986 — Brownstone — Claudia — Roundabout Theatre Company, Off-Broadway • 1986 — Evita — Eva Peron — Providence College • 1987 — Marry Me A Little — Woman — York Theatre, Off-Broadway • 1987 — No Way To Treat A Lady — Performer — Hudson Guild Theater, Off-Broadway • 1987 — Sunday in the Park with George — Dot — Providence College • 1991 — Miss Saigon — Ellen — Broadway Theatre, Broadway • 1994 — Fiorello! — Dora — New York City Center, Off-Broadway • 2001 — The Spitfire Grill — Shelby Thorpe — The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway • 2003 — The Look of Love — Performer — Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway • 2012 — Sunset Boulevard — Norma Desmond — Pittsburgh CLO

Liz Callaway was born on 13 April 1961 in Chicago. Callaway held the nationality of United States. Callaway was educated at New Trier High School. Callaway worked as stage actor, voice actor, singer and musician. Callaway was active from 1979. The fields Callaway worked in include pop music, musical theater and vocal music. Callaway played the voice. Callaway worked in English.

• Anywhere I Wander (Varèse Sarabande) (September 28, 1993) • Magical Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of Disney's Aladdin (Walt Disney Records, 1995) - performer on "Forget About Love" (duet with Gilbert Gottfried) & "Out of Thin Air" (duet with Brad Kane) • Sibling Revelry (DRG, 1996) with Ann Hampton Callaway • The Story Goes On (Varèse Sarabande) (August 29, 1995) • The Beat Goes On (Varèse Sarabande) (May 15, 2001) • Passage of Time (PS Classics) (October 20, 2009) • Boom! Live at Birdland (PS Classics, 2011) with Ann Hampton Callaway • The Essential Liz Callaway (2015) • Merry and Bright (2013) • Comfort and Joy (An Acoustic Christmas) (Working Girl Records) with Peter Calo (December 4, 2020) • To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim (Working Girl Records) (November 11, 2022) • Hazbin Hotel: Season Two (Original Soundtrack) (2025) - performer on "Sera's Confession" (duet with Patina Miller) • The Wizard And I: Liz Callaway sings Stephen Schwartz (Working Girl Records) (Recorded Live at 54 Below on September 3-4, 2025 and released January 2026)