Linda Eder

Linda Eder (born February 3, 1961) is an American singer and actress. She is most notable for having originated the role of Lucy Harris in the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde, for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.
Biography
Eder was born in Tucson, Arizona, on February 3, 1961, and raised in Brainerd, Minnesota. Her parents, Georg (from Austria) and Laila (from Norway), exposed her to music at an early age. She cites Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and Eileen Farrell as her childhood inspiration. Eder cites Garland, specifically, as her greatest influence.
Before her work on Broadway, Eder sang in clubs in Minneapolis and performed at Harrah's Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1988 she won the talent show Star Search, where her performance caught the notice of Frank Wildhorn. She signed with RCA Records and starred in two 1991 stagings of Wildhorn's musical Svengali (the 1990 world premiere and 1995–96 national tour), the 1997 Broadway production of his Jekyll & Hyde, and the 2003 World Premiere of Camille Claudel. During those years, Eder recorded several CDs on Angel Records and Atlantic Records. Wildhorn and Eder married in 1998 and divorced in 2004; they have one son, Jake. Eder won the Theater World Award (1996–97) for Best Broadway Debut in Jekyll & Hyde.
Since her divorce from Wildhorn, Eder has mainly performed in live concerts at venues including the Greek Theater, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. She has continued to release solo albums, including one recorded live at Skidmore College in 2014.
Notable Theatre Roles
Discography
Solo albums
1989 Vienna (Early UK release of the Linda Eder album)
1991 Linda Eder
1994 And So Much More
1997 It's Time
1999 It's No Secret Anymore
2000 Christmas Stays the Same
2002 Gold
2003 Storybook
2003 Broadway, My Way
2005 By Myself: The Songs of Judy Garland
2007 Greatest Hits
2008 The Other Side of Me
2009 Soundtrack
2011 Now
2013 Christmas Where You Are
2014 Linda Live: The Concert Recording
2015 Retro
2018 If You See Me
2020 Retro-Volume Two
Musical albums
1990 Jekyll & Hyde: Romantic Highlights (Concept Album) - Lucy Harris & Lisa Carew
1992 The Scarlet Pimpernel (Concept Recording) - Marguerite St. Just
1995 Jekyll & Hyde: The Complete Work (Concept Album) - Lucy Harris
1997 Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical: Original Broadway Cast - Lucy Harris
1998 The Scarlet Pimpernel: Encore! (Second Broadway Cast) - Marguerite St. Just ("Only Love", "You Are My Home")
1998 The Civil War: An American Musical (Concept Album)
1998 The Civil War: The Nashville Sessions
2003 Camille Claudel: A New Musical (Studio Demo Recording)* - Camille Claudel
2004 Cyrano de Bergerac ~ The Musical (Concept Album)* - Roxanne
2005 Peter Pan (Leonard Bernstein) World Premiere Recording of the complete Bernstein score - Wendy
2010 Halleluiah Broadway - Herself ("What I Did For Love" (from A Chorus Line), "Electricity" (from Billy Elliot))
2011 Tears of Heaven (Concept Album)
*- Although planned, final outcome was that it was not to be released.
Singles
"A Little Bit of Heaven"
"Something To Believe In"
"Vienna"
"Never Dance"
"The Christmas Song"
"Bells of St. Paul" (Christmas)
"Gold" (From Camille Claudel)
"I Am What I Am" (From La Cage Aux Folles)
"Lifted"
"The Other Side Of Me"
Video albums
1999 In Concert (Aired on PBS)
2001 Christmas Stays The Same (Aired on Bravo)
2018 The Other Side: An Inside Look At My Life With Out The Audience
Awards
References
External links
The Official Linda Eder Site
1961 births
Living people
American women pop singers
American people of Norwegian descent
People from Brainerd, Minnesota
American people of Austrian descent
American musical theatre actresses
Actresses from Minnesota
Singers from Minnesota
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
20th-century American singers
21st-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
21st-century American women singers
Theatre World Award winners