Christine Pedi

Christine Pedi (born 24 October 1961), is an American television and theatre actress, as well as a cabaret performer and radio personality.

[5][6] She appeared Off-Broadway in composer-lyricist Rick Crom's NEWSical the Musical opening on December 13, 2010 at The Kirk at Theatre Row.

[11] She performed two songs on the recording of Forbidden Broadway: Special Victim's Unit which opened at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre in December 2004.

[16] Robin Pogrebin, writing in The New York Times, observed: "Watch her contort her mouth as she morphs into Patti LuPone or widen her eyes as she channels Carol Channing, and it is clear that what Ms. Pedi makes look easy is difficult and rare.

Reviewing the latest edition of Forbidden Broadway in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called Ms. Pedi, who has played the most performances of any cast member, 'the sharpest caricaturist of the group.'"

Dana Polan (Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) wrote that the death of Baccalieri "had narrative convulsions that would play through later seasons.