Rebecca Robbins
Rebecca Robbins is an actress, singer and most importantly a cancer survivor. She has been seen on Broadway in A Tale of Two Cities and The Phantom of The Opera and has also toured North America with The Phantom of The Opera where, along with playing her roles as Madame Firmin and The Confidante, she frequently played opera diva Carlotta Guidicelli at theatres across the country, including The Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre and Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre.
Off-Broadway credits include My Fair Lady (NY Philharmonic), The Pajama Game, Fiorello, Fanny, Music in the Air and The New Moon (City Center Encores!), as well as Wallace Shawn’s world premier play, The Music Teacher (The New Group). She has also been seen in numerous regional theatre productions including 16 shows at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. In New York City, she has performed at such legendary venues as The Friars Club, Birdland, Sardi’s and The Metropolitan Room and has been a headliner soloist at The Great Waters Music Festival in New Hampshire for the past four years.
In 2009 Rebecca underwent chemotherapy as well as radiation for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and was declared cured in 2014. She is an alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music where she received her early vocal training in opera and later gravitated towards Broadway. She is an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan and opened the 2017 Philadelphia Phillies baseball season singing God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch.
Testimonials
“Rebecca Robbins proves incredibly flexible and her vocal prowess never fails to impress.”
— Broadway World
“Smiling and laughing and happy to meet fans in the lobby for autographs and pictures, long after the end of the performance — Rebecca is the type of performer everyone can’t help but love.”
— Fosters
“And the very best thing here is wondrous Rebecca Robbins. What a voice.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
“Rebecca Robbins was a worthy leading lady with hints of Patti LuPone and Angela Lansbury.”
— Broad Street Review
“Rebecca Robbins, she of the soaring soprano, embraced the words as if they were her own to torch a ballad to which we all relate.”
— Broadway World