Carol Woods is an American performer. In February 2008 she received a standing ovation during the 50th Grammy Awards broadcast singing "Let It Be" from the soundtrack of the film Across the Universe, with Timothy T. Mitchum. Inspired by Barack Obama's campaign and win she has recorded Grammy Award winner Julie Gold's song America .The CD of America (The Song) made its debut in a Limited Inaugural Edition at the "Shades of Blue" Inaugural Gala ,hosted by Create the Vision Source in Washington D.C. January 20, 2009.In July 2009 ,America became available to the public at large. In early 2009 she reprised the role of Matron Mama Morton in Chicago on Broadway, followed by two weeks at the National Theater in Washington, D.C. (March 31 - April 12, 2009 ). She will remain on tour with the show as Matron "Mama" Morton through June 2010.She is also recording material for a new CD titled Blues In The Night.
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Carol Woods Broadway theatre credits include Matron Mama Morton in Chicago. Stella Deems in the Roundabout Theater's 2001 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, Mrs Crosby in Neal Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1993), Maybelle in Grind in 1985. She also made a special guest appearance in the 2002 One Mo Time revival as Ma Reed. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her role in the 1987 London production of Blues in the Night, which led to a NYC run at the Minetta Lane Theater, and in 2008 reprised the role in a San Francisco Production. As a founding member of Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre, in 1992, Carol appeared in their first two productions A Little Hotel on the Side and as Tituba in The Crucible. She left Big River in 1987 to play Rose in the Tommy Tune-directed Stepping Out (play).On Tour she recreated the role of Jeanette Burmeister in The Full Monty.
Off-Broadway, she is best known for her portrayal of Big Bertha in the Village Gate's 1979 production of One Mo Time and its TV commercial where she sang part of You've Got The Right Key But You're Working On The Wrong Keyhole and viewers were invited to see the rest in person. In 1993, she portrayed Lorena Hickok in First Lady Suite at the The Public Theater. In 1997 at the Samuel Beckett Theater she appeared as Vy, Aladdin's mother in Dreamstuff a contemporary musical spin on Aladdin.
Her Regional theater credits include An Evening Dinner Theatre in Elmsford, New York where she appeared as Jewel in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas At the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, Carol Woods appeared in C'mon and Hear: Irving Berlin's America (1994), A Christmas Carol (1996) ,Greensboro: A Requiem (1996) At Montclair State University in 1992 Carol Woods repeated the starring role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which she had played in London's Royal National Theater three years earlier. During Theaterfest '94 she appeared in Side by Side by Sondheim, and during TheatreFest '98, Triplets: The Diva Musical with Ruth Brown, and Angela Robinson. For the Williamstown Theatre Festival she appeared in Hot L Baltimore (2000)
Her first film credit was as the infamous Aunt Bunny in Eddie Murphy
Raw (1987)
She reprises her stage role of Rose in the Stepping Out (1991 film)
version, with Liza Minnelli, Shelly Winters, Bill Irwin and
Jane
Krakowski. Rose's son in the film was played by
Carol's real son Raymond Rickman She performed at
both the Toronto Benefit for Starlight during the
filming and at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS New York Premiere of the film.
In Sweet
and Lowdown (1999) as Helen Minton she sings All Of
Me .
In the Honeymooners (2005) she plays Alice's Mom .
Across the Universe
(film)(2007)
Having been directed by Jack Wrangler in cabaret, she appears as
herself in the 2008 documentary Wrangler Anatomy Of An
Icon.
Steam as
Ella , with Ruby
Dee.
When the Evening Comes (2009) as Mrs. Anderson is in
post-production.
The Parent Hood with Robert
Townsend as Mrs Wilcox - Season 1
Law and
Order
Third
Watch
The
Practice episode - Neighboring Species
Bosom Buddies with Karen
Saunders
Lost In The Stars
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Barcelona
While appearing in the London Production of Blues In The
Night ,Carol was befriended by Freddie Mercury of Queen who asked her
to sing backup on this Album
Three CDs in The Riverwalk Series:
New Year's All Star Jam
American Love Songs
Hot Jazz For A Cool Yule.
She also appears on the Cast Albums of :
Grind,
The Goodbye Girl
Blues In The Night
The Village
Gate
Songs In The Key Of Stevie reunited her with Ron
Richardson
The Stevie Wonder tribute was directed by Obba
Babatundé
New Year's Eve Party with opening act Dianna
Jones
Featured Vocalist at Late Night Swing Shows
During One Mo' Time made frequent "guest " appearances in
the Terrace Bar Cabaret
She continued this practice when she dropped in to see other
performers, notably Emmy Kemp , until "The Gate"
closed.
Carnegie
Hall
An Evening with Carol Woods November 27, 2000
Benefit concerts for the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation honoring
Johnny Mercer
(2001), Kander & Ebb (2003), and Marvin Hamlisch
(2006).
92nd
Street Y
Various Lyrics and Lyricists shows
Downtime
Her CD Bosom Buddies was recorded there live
Arci's Place
Stick Around ran from January 30 through February 24,
2001
Rainbow and Stars
'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin(1992) with Jo Anne
Worley
Michaels Pub
Tribute shows to Sammy Davis Jr. and
Pearl
Bailey(1991)
Freddy's Supper Club June 1985
Nell's
B. Smiths
Iridium
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