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Liz Robertson (born 4 May 1954, Ilford, Essex) is a English actress and singer.She is the widow of Playwright and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner .

Robertson began training at the Finch Stage School at the age of three. Her first professional employment was as a cabaret dancer at London's Savoy Hotel at the age of sixteen. Shortly after she joined a dance group called The Go-Jo's, and a year later she became the lead singer and dancer of BBC Two's The Young Generation.

Robertson's West End career began with A Little Night Music, directed by Hal Prince, and the revue Side By Side By Sondheim, which she subsequently took to Toronto with Georgia Brown. Other London theater credits include I Love My Wife, My Fair Lady, Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood, Song and Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Music Man.

Robertson made her Broadway debut in Dance a Little Closer, the disastrous 1983 musical adaptation of Idiot's Delight by Charles Strouse and her husband, Alan Jay Lerner, that closed on opening night. Three years later she returned with the Kern revue, which ran for only 24 performances and proved to be her last Broadway appearance. She starred in an extensive US tour of The King and I and performed at the Kennedy Center before President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.

Robertson presented her one-woman show, Just Liz, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Duke of York's Theatre in London. It later was taped and broadcast by Television South. She is also a regular performer (and part of the original cast) of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners. She is currently starring in the musical Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre, performing the role of 'Velma Von Tussle'.[1] Liz will be playing the Wicked Queen in the Bristol Hippodrome Pantomime, Snow White from 11 December 2009.
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