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Rachel Tyler

Birth Place: Liverpool, U.K

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Rachel began her career at age 17 as a featured singer for a small band singing in an after hours nightclub. Rachel discovered her love for singing (and discovered she could shake a tambourine with the best of them!) Upon a friend's recommendation, Rachel auditioned for the Guildford School of Acting. She was surprised and thrilled to win a three-year scholarship for training in musical theatre. In between classes Rachel was privileged to be a part of the National Youth Music Theatre in the original production of 'Whistle Down The Wind' and 'Hiss & Boo's Old Time Music Hall Variety Show'.

Immediately upon graduating, Rachel was whisked away to tour Europe in The Rocky Horror Show. This was to spark a long history with the show, once as a replacement Janet, saving the European Millennium Tour, where she also met her husband! She was then invited to continue playing the role on the UK Tour.

Rachel has also graced the West End in the hit show Smokey Joe's Cafe (Prince of Wales Theatre), and playing Ellen in Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Rachel was also thrilled to perform beside Lea Salonga and Jonathon Pryce in the Tenth Anniversary Special Performance of Miss Saigon as a proud member of the final cast.

Rachel is no stranger to 'the road'. As well as The Rocky Horror Show and Smokey Joe's Cafe, Rachel has appeared in many tours across the UK. These include Rizzo in Grease and Serena Katz in Fame, for which she received numerous accolades.

Although delighted to be playing so many great roles, Rachel grew anxious to unpack her suitcase for good. So she packed up one more time and moved to New York City. There she found starring roles in several Off Broadway productions with Musicals Tonight. These included Wanda in So Long 174th Street, and re-creating the role that made Ethel Merman famous in Girl Crazy.

Soon, the traveling bug had bitten again.This time as the Lead Vocalist for Crystal Cruises. After two years of non-stop performing and sailing, Rachel considers herself very lucky to have seen most of this wonderful world, including Antarctica!

But dry land beckoned once more. This time to sunny Barcelona, for the filming of a new television series for the BBC. Rachel appeared opposite Christopher Lloyd, creating the role of Analie for the BBC 1 series entitled 'I Dream'.

After making the leap back to America, but this time to LA, Rachel continued to perform on stage touring the US as Tanya in Mamma Mia, which also gave her the opportunity of a lifetime, to perform on the 63rd Annual Tony Awards in New York's Radio City Music Hall.

Although she still loves the thrill of the big stage, she enjoys the intimacy of a quiet lounge, a good piano, and a great torch song. Rachel has most recently been traveling with her latest cabaret "20th Century Songbirds" which has been very well received. She has performed in many cabaret shows in her career, most memorably for charities such as West End and Broadway Cares.

Since moving to LA Rachel has appeared in several short films and continues to challenge herself in all mediums.

Rachel Tyler STAGE CREDITS

[US Tour]
2nd National Tour, 2002
Tanya [Replacement]


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Photo Flash: First Look at Winners of the Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards


On Sunday, May 29, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts hosted the fourth annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards, recognizing the extraordinary talent and sheer dedication found in Nevada's high school theater students. The event welcomed 19 nominees to compete at the regional finals inside Reynolds Hall, concluding the 2015 - 2016 school year with the announcement of this year's winners.  BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at all the winners below!

Fourth Annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards Winners Are Announced!


On Sunday, May 29, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts hosted the fourth annual Nevada High School Musical Theater Awards, recognizing the extraordinary talent and sheer dedication found in Nevada's high school theater students. The event welcomed 19 nominees to compete at the regional finals inside Reynolds Hall, concluding the 2015 - 2016 school year with the announcement of this year's winners.

Photo Flash: (mostly)musicals: LUCKY NUMBER 13 Makes It Count at The E Spot Lounge


(mostly)musicals returned to The E Spot Lounge on Monday, August 24, 2015 for LUCKY NUMBER 13 (a cabaret that COUNTS). The diverse musical selections all featured numbers, and were performed by an exponentially talented array of singers under the music direction of the award winning Gregory Nabours. Check out the photos below from the memorable night below!

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Photo Flash: First Look- (mostly)musicals' THE HEAT IS ON


On Monday, July 6, 2015, (mostly)musicals will make its long-awaited return with its 12th edition: The Heat Is ON! at 8pm in the E Spot Lounge. (mostly)musicals has assembled a unique assortment of songs - mostly from musicals, of course - and lined up a blazing hot array of LA talent to perform them!

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Following a several month absence from the LA scene, (mostly)musicals will make its long-awaited return on Monday, July 6 at the E Spot Lounge with The Heat Is ON! This will be the company's 12th production in a series of themed cabarets. 'We are so excited to be returning to the LA calendar, and to be back in Studio City in the beautiful new E Spot Lounge,' explains producer amy francis schott.

Rachel & Matthew Tyler to Perform FOR BETTER, OR WORSE at Arthur Newman Theater Palm Desert, 8/31


Real-life husband and wife Broadway performers, Rachel Tyler and Matthew Tyler, will bring their cabaret concert "For Better, Or Worse" to the Arthur Newman Theater at the Joslyn Center in Palm Desert on Sunday, August 31, 2014 at 2 PM. Presented by Les Michaels' Life Is A Cabaret Sundays In Summer Series, the show will feature songs and duets from a variety of genres with local musical director Joel Baker accompanying then on piano.

ANMT's 15 Minute Musical Series Set for Tonight


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ANMT's 15 Minute Musical Series Set for 6/24-25


Once a year, every June, like clockwork, you can hear composers weeping in North Hollywood, and threatening to call attorneys, and then kissing and making up and saying they've just had the most wonderful experience of their lives. Yes, it's time for the annual 15-Minute Musical project at the Academy for New Musical Theatre: June 24th and 25th at the Met Theatre in Hollywood. For the final project of Academy's famous writers' workshop, composers and lyricists and bookwriters are put together on writing teams and are given eight short weeks to write, revise and polish a brand-new musical written for five actors whom they've never met before.

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MAMMA MIA! Closes at the Toronto At The Princess of Wales Theatre 6/6


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BWW Reviews: MAMMA MIA! National Tour at the Princess of Wales


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Benny Andersson' and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Toronto this month. Performances begin on April 28 and have been extended through June 27 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

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Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Toronto this month. Performances begin on April 28 and run through June 6 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

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