soubrette

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At the Milwaukee Rep, I did a play called “Cat Among the Pigeons,” which is a Feydeau farce, and I played the ingénue in that, or the soubrette.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2019

Discovered by Austrian tenor Richard Tauber, Zsa Zsa took a soubrette role in the operetta The Singing Dream before coming to the U.S. in the 1940s.

From Time • Dec. 18, 2016

Grande, like many teen aspirants to Broadway, trained as a belter, a more natural fit for her voice than the R&B soubrette she hadn’t quite grown into.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2014

She managed to join the Operetta theatre as a chorus member and bit-part singer, and in time-honoured fashion was given her big chance when the soubrette broke her leg.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2012

The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger