New Jersey Stage 2016: Issue 9 | Page 100

Originally from West Orange, NJ, Rabke is best known for Broadway performances as the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Eponine in Les Misérables. But before those productions, her first breakout role was Dorothy in Paper Mill Playhouse’s The Wizard of Oz and she would later return to Paper Mill to originate the role of Yonah in ChilNJ STAGE 2016 - ISSUE 5 9 dren of Eden. Rabke took a decade off to start and raise her family, only returning to the stage a few years ago when Coulter asked her to be part of a show called Broadway Originals. That show featured people performing songs from shows in which they originated a character. That performance not only got her back on stage in front of the public, but led to the INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 100