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BIOGRAPHY Maggie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and quickly became a theatrical enthusiast. Cincinnati provided a very real starting point for the artistically minded. In grade school, she saw Carol Channing touring in Lorelei at the Shubert Theatre and experienced her first opera, La Boheme, at the Cincinnati Summer Opera. Some of her fondest memories are attending the summer musicals in Dayton, Ohio to see John Davidson performing in Oklahoma or seeing a revival of The Sound of Music. Once her father realized Maggie had been "bitten
by the bug," he gave her two incredible gifts that would forever enable
her dreams to become a reality: season tickets to the Cincinnati Playhouse
in the Park and a brand new piano for her 13th birthday! High school was
all about rehearsals for The Queens Men (a theatrical troup), the Hamilton
County Junior Miss Pageant and ballet. The following summer, she was chosen
as the Carthage Fair Queen and competed for the Ohio title in the Miss
America Pageant. Soon followed music and theatre scholarships to Purdue University and Western Illinois University. She learned her craft "on the boards", working in equity summer stock houses during her breaks and began performing with Arlene Dahl and Patrice Munsel at a very early age. After a fellowship at Pennsylvania Stage Company,
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