News & Reviews
Phantom at Arizona Broadway Theatre
February 15th- April 11th, 2025
Director- Kiel Klaphke
Abby is honored to be staying for Arizona Broadway Theatre’s next production of Maury Yeston’s Phantom. She will be playing Fleure, a featured member of the opera company. The show will run March 7th- April 10th.
Hello, Dolly! at Arizona Broadway Theatre
December 28th, 2024 -February 22nd, 2025
Director- Danny Gorman
Abby is so excited to make her Arizona Broadway Theatre debut in the ensemble of Hello, Dolly during ABT’s 20th anniversary season. The show opens January 17th and will run until February 21st.
“The tight-knit ensemble is equally impressive, bringing the vibrant world of Yonkers and New York City to life with their precise dancing and exuberant vocals.” - Gil Benbrook (Talkin’ Broadway)
Off-Broadway Revival of Skyscraper
October 7th- November 17th, 2024
Director- Avital Asuleen
Abby is going to make her Off-Broadway debut in the first ever revival of the 1965 musical Skyscraper. She has been having so much fun playing Charlotte and dancing in the ensemble. She has also been given the exciting challenge of understudying Georgina Allerton, the show’s leading lady. The show has a limited run at UrbanStages in NYC from November 7-November 17th.
Dancer, LE BAL DU MONSTRE
Premiered: October 29, 2024
Artistic Director- Missleidy Rodriguez; Choreographer- Michael McCrary
Abby had the opportunity to be a dancer in Missleidy’s “Le Bal Du Monstre.”
“In honor of Halloween, the one and only @missleidyrodriguezput on Le Bal Du Monstre, an eerie editorial of drag performers inspired by queer ballroom and the upcoming haunting holiday. ‘The concept behind the shoot was, essentially, there is this one night a year during the witching hour when all of these monsters, beasts, creatures and things come out from the crypts and the darkness for a jubilee of the darkest kind,’ Rodriguez, whose name is Jimi Urquiaga out of drag, tells Them.” - @Them
Actor, Bigfork Summer Playhouse (2024)
May 12th- August 18th, 2024
Artistic Producer- Brach Thomson
Abby is super excited to return to the Bigfork Summer Playhouse where she will have the opportunity to play her dream role: Polly Baker in Crazy For You. She has also been cast as Wendy Jo in Footloose, Silly Girl/ Napkin/ Dance Captain in Beauty and the Beast, and Enid Hoopes in Legally Blonde. She is excited to work with creative teams she has worked with before, as well as some new creatives. The Bigfork Summer Playhouse is a repertory theatre, where are all four musicals rotate each night. Performances begin June 1st, 2024, and end on August 17th, 2024. She will be a featured vocalist/ dancer in the annual “Benefit Revue” on July 21st, 2024. For the second summer in a row, Abby was awarded the Larry Howard Broadway/Tap Dance Scholarship.
“The inspired and pitch-perfect dancing of Jeff Gallup and Abby Scalici will quickly remind you of old movies with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.”
- Andy Palchak, Kalispell
Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde
Abby is feeling bittersweet as she closes out her time with Belmont Musical Theatre in Legally Blonde at the Fisher Center for Performing Arts. She will be playing Brooke Wyndham in the “Snap Cast” on March 23rd at 7:30pm and March 24th at 2pm.
“Abby Scalici is ideally cast as fitness maven Brooke Wyndham – “Whipped Into Shape” is one of the show’s choreographic highlights, for sure”
-Jeffrey Ellis (Broadway World)
Nominated for “Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical”
First Night Awards by Jef Ellis
Belmont University- Directed by David Shamburger
March 22nd-24th 2024
Where You’ll Be: Abby’s Senior Show
Abby is ecstatic for her senior show at Belmont University. She has written, directed, and choreographed a 60 minute, one act show. Abby will perform a character study of Glinda from Wicked, a composer study of George Gershwin, and perform a Cabaret section. Her senior show is another step closer to her BFA and a culmination of everything she has learned from Belmont Musical Theatre.
Belmont University- Massey Performing Arts Center
January 19th, 2024 at 6:30pm
Wicked Selections (Composed by Stephen Schwartz)
“No One Mourns the Wicked”
“Dancing Through Life”
“Popular”
“Thank Goodness”
“Finale”
George Gershwin Selections
“Gershwin Trio” (arr. David Loud)
“I Got Rhythm”- Crazy For You
“I’ve Got a Crush on You”
“Rhapsody in Blue”
Cabaret Selections
“Fly Away”- Jo, The Little Women Musical
“Where You’ll Be”- The Clockmaker’s Daughter
“Where You Lead”- Carole King
Working Promo Video
Nominated for “Outstanding Choreographer”
First Night Awards by Jef Ellis
Actor & Choreographer in Working
Belmont University- Directed by Erica Aubrey
October 6th-8th, 2023
Abby cannot wait to kickoff her senior year with Belmont’s production of Working. She gets to participate as both the production’s choreographer and as a performer. On stage, she will be featured as Delores Dante singing “It’s an Art,” Terry the Flight Attendant, and singing& dancing in the show’s ensemble.
“Abby Scalici, who delivers a stunning performance as part of the musical’s ensemble of actors, does double-duty as the show’s choreographer, infusing the production with imaginative movement that helps to capture the sense of immediacy that persists throughout the 90-minute show which moves fluidly from one shining moment to the next. Scalici's skills as a choreographer are on full display in her inventive staging of “Brother Trucker…,”Cleanin’ Women…,” and in “It’s An Art,” during which she shows off her own stage presence as a waitress who brings her skills as an actor from one table to the next.”
— Jeffrey Ellis (Broadway World)
Actor, Bigfork Summer Playhouse (2023)
Artistic Director- Brach Thomson
May 14- August 20, 2023
Abby was over the moon about joining the Bigfork Summer Playhouse 2023 Company as an actor. She played Rizzo in Grease, Wanda/ Dance Captain in Escape to Margaritaville, Grandma Addams in The Addams Family, and Ensemble in Fiddler on the Roof. She was lucky to be able to have worked with various different directors, music directors, and choreographers. The Bigfork Summer Playhouse is a repertory theatre, where are all four musicals rotated each night. Performances began June 3rd, 2023, and ended on August 19th, 2023. She was also a featured vocalist/ dancer in the annual “Benefit Revue” on July 23rd, 2023. On closing night of the summer season, Abby was awarded the Larry Howard Broadway/Tap Dance Scholarship.
Babette in Beauty & the Beast
Abby is happy to announce that she will be playing Babette as well as serving as the Dance Captain in Beauty and the Beast at Belmont University in the Fisher Center for Performing Arts. Abby will perform as Babette in the “Salt Cast,” on March 24th at 7:30pm and March 25th at 2pm. She also had the opportunity to perform in ensemble as her “off-night track,” in the remaining two performances.
Belmont University- Directed by David Shamburger
March 24-26th, 2023
Voice Teacher- Erica Aubrey
January 14th, 2023 at 1pm
Abby’s Junior Recital
Abby cannot wait to perform her junior recital this upcoming January! Her recital will be 25 minutes of musical theatre repertoire that covers 5 different decades. Performing her junior recital will bring Abby one step closer to completing her BFA in Musical Theatre at Belmont.
Setlist:
”The Beauty Is”- The Light in the Piazza (2005)
“Stars”- Open, Stay (2021)
“Should I be Sweet?”- Take a Chance (1932)
“One Second and a Million Miles”- Bridges of Madison County (2014)
“My Big French Boyfriend”- The Toxic Avenger (2008)
“Without a Word”- A Tale of Two Cities (2008)
“Good Girl”- Carrie Underwood (2012)
“Like Love”- Charlie’s Girl (1965)
Rapunzel in Into the Woods
Belmont University- Directed by David Shamburger
Nov 18th-20th, 2022
Abby is so excited that she has the opportunity to play Rapunzel in Belmont University’s Production of Into the Woods. She is a part of the “Bean cast,” which will be performing November 19th at 7:30pm and November 20th at 2pm.
Dancer, Grand Carnivale
Carowinds- Directed by Benjamin Rowan& Choreographed by Alexis Roberts
June 6th- July 10th, 2022
Worlds of Fun- Directed by Brian Cross& Choreographed by Phil Vitug
July 11th- August 8th, 2022
Abby is thrilled to be participating in Cedar Fair’s “Grand Carnivale” at both Carowinds and Worlds of Fun during the summer 2022 season! She will be a dancer in the MainStage show “Royal Rhythms,” as well as a dancer in the “Spectacle of Color Parade” at both parks. She will be at performing at Carowinds from June 25-July 10, 2022 and then traveling to Worlds of Fun to perform from July 23-August 7, 2022.
Belmont University Dance Company- Directed by Debbie Belue
April 9th& April 10th, 2022
Dancer, “Mixed Bill”
Abby is so excited to perform in Belmont University’s Dance Company Showcase “Mixed Bill,” after rehearsing for it all year. She is a part of 5 pieces, each varying in different styles (tap, jazz, and contemporary). She will be in all three performances.
Robin/ Dance Ensemble/ US Andy Lee in 42nd St.
Belmont University- Directed by David Shamburger
April 1st-3rd, 2022
Abby cannot wait to perform in Belmont’s production of 42nd St., which will be the first musical theatre performance in the brand new Fisher Center for Performing Arts. She is so excited to be tapping away as Robin the dance ensemble and has also enjoyed understudying the role of Andy Lee. She will be in all four performances of 42nd St.
Ensemble in Urinetown
Belmont University- Directed by David Shamburger
November 10th- November 14th, 2021
Abby is thrilled to be a part of her first college production! She will be in the “Poor Ensemble” of all six performances of Belmont’s production of Urinetown. This show is extremely special because it is also the first live performance Belmont has had since the pandemic. She is so grateful to be a part of it!