[3][4] She won a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award (BACTC) for her role in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

[5] Despite fierce competition by acclaimed Broadway actors including Phylicia Rashad, Champagne also earned Los Angeles' Ovation Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in A Musical, Judy's Scary Little Christmas, directed by Kay Cole.

Despite Champagne's chaotic and sometimes painful childhood, her grandfather, former Detroit Lions football star Ernie Caddel, encouraged her to pursue singing and acting as a career.

Champagne then switched gears and decided to study acting, landing her first role at San Francisco's Magic Theatre in a play titled Love In the 3rd Degree, written by noted actress O-Lan Jones.

Champagne then performed at many night clubs as Judy, using her same eclectic approach singing Garland classics along with contemporary songs, produced by Harry Lit and the late Dan Kryston.

[6] In 2009, Champagne reunited with Musical Director Scrumbly Koldewyn and began working with the award-winning underground theater group the Thrillpeddlers, and most recently appeared in Marat/Sade, directed by Russell Blackwood and produced by impresario Marc Huestis.

In the spring of 2016, Champagne performed the role Judy Garland in Landmark Musical Theatre's Bay area premiere production of The Boy From Ozat the Great Star Theater.