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Charlotte Rae
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Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018) was an American character actress, comedian, singer and dancer whose career spanned six decades. She moved to New York City in 1948, where she performed in the theater and nightclubs. During her early years in New York, she worked at the Village Vanguard (alongside up-and-coming talents such as singer Richard Dyer-Bennet) and at the posh Blue Angel, home to budding talents Barbra Streisand, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. A stage actress since the 1950s, she appeared in Three Wishes for Jamie, The Threepenny Opera, Li'l Abner, and Pickwick. In 1955 she released her first (and only) solo album, Songs I Taught My Mother, which featured "silly, sinful, and satirical" songs by Sheldon Harnick, Vernon Duke, John La Touche, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and Marc Blitzstein (who reportedly wrote the song "Modest Maid" especially for Rae), among others. She appeared in Ben Bagley's revue The Littlest Revue (and on its cast album) in 1956, appearing alongside Joel Grey and Tammy Grimes, among others, and singing songs by Sheldon Harnick ("The Shape of Things"), Vernon Duke ("Summer is a-Comin' In"), and Charles Strouse & Lee Adams ("Spring Doth Let Her Colours Fly"), a parody of opera singer Helen Traubel's Las Vegas night club act), among others. Rae would later record Rodgers & Hart Revisited with Dorothy Loudon, Cy Young, and Arthur Siegel, singing "Everybody Loves You (When You're Asleep)" and in s
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The Threepenny Opera (Original Off-Broadway Cast)
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The Threepenny Opera
Songs I Taught My Mother
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The Threepenny Opera - Original Broadway Cast
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Christmas Turkeys 10
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The Threepenny Opera - Original Broadway Cast Recording 1954
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The Threepenny Opera (Original Off Broadway Cast)
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The Threepenny Opera [1954 Off-Broadway Revival Cast]
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Kurt Weill: The Centennial
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Hair - Movie Soundtrack
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Kurt Weill: The Centennial (Disc 1)
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The Threepenny Opera (1954 Original Broadway Cast)