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Spencer Kayden (born 1971) is an American actress and writer. Kayden is most notable for playing Little Sally in the Broadway musical ''Urinetown'' and for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series ''MADtv.'' ==Biography== Spencer Kayden was born in 1971 in Costa Mesa, California, the only girl out of three boys, to a father who worked as a pop-up book publisher and a mother who worked as a psychotherapist. Kayden grew up in Orange County, California and went on to study drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.〔McKinley, Jesse. ("Theater; 'Urinetown' Uptown? Her Moment Has Come" ) ''The New York Times'', September 2, 2001〕 She joined the Chicago cast of ''Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind'' 〔("Ensemble and Alumni" ) neofuturists.org, accessed April 1, 2012〕〔Bommer, Lawrence. (Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind" ) chicagoreader.com, August 16, 1990〕 and moved to New York in 1993 to start the New York run of the show. Kayden received critical acclaim and notice for her performance in the musical ''Urinetown'', where she played Little Sally, the pig-tailed girl who helps explain the plot. She played in the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival production, and then was in the original Off-Broadway and Broadway casts in 2001 and returned in 2003.〔Simonson, Robert and Jones, Kenneth. ("Little Sally Comes Home: Spencer Kayden Returns to Urinetown, March 25" ) playbill.com, March 25, 2003〕 The ''CurtainUp'' reviewer noted in reviewing the Off-Broadway production: "But while Spencer Kayden does everything right in her portrayal of the droll little girl who alternates begging for 'penny for a pee' with Shirley Temple/Charlie McCarthy exchanges with the deceptively kindly neighborhood cop, her Sally is wrong. This 'bad' idea is outrageously good for lots of laughs. The central joke works."〔Sommer, Elyse. ("A CurtainUp Review; 'Urinetown The Musical' " ) CurtainUp.com, May 4, 2001〕 It is from her theater performances that she was discovered by Fox executives and cast as a featured performer on ''MADtv''. Kayden also played the role of Mrs. Pepper in the popular ''Nickelodeon'' kids series ''Blue's Clues''. Kayden starred in the farce ''Don't Dress for Dinner'' at the Royal George Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, from November 2008 to January 2009.〔Jones, Kenneth. (" 'Don't Dress' Gets Chicago Premiere With Harelik, Kayden and "Burn Notice" Star Donovan" ) playbill.com, September 18, 2008〕 She reprised her role as the cook in the Broadway production, which opened in March 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre.〔Jones, Kenneth. (" 'Don't Dress for Dinner', With Ben Daniels, Jennifer Tilly, Spencer Kayden, Makes Broadway Premiere" ) playbill.com, March 30, 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spencer Kayden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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