As 2009 winds down, Broadway.com asked your favorite stars to look back on personal highlights from the past year and share their resolutions for 2010. Read on to be inspired—and have a Happy New Year!

CHRISTIANE NOLL (Mother in Ragtime)

Highlight of 2009: “The birth of my daughter. She has brought me such joy and taught me so ...

Christiane Noll is a fabulous singer and stage actress, lovely and poised, and she’s worked a ton—but in the decade since she debuted on Broadway as demure Emma in Jekyll and Hyde, she hasn’t had great luck getting back to New York in shows like The Witches of Eastwick and Mambo Kings. Not one to sit still ...

The wait is over: Ragtime has returned to Broadway, and fans are flocking to previews in advance of the revival’s November 15 opening night. Just before the first performance on October 23, leading lady Christiane Noll graciously invited Broadway.com to photograph her pre-show prep. Appropriately enough for an actress cast as “Mother,” Noll spent time playing with her ...

Complete casting of the forthcoming Broadway revival of Ragtime has been announced. The 40-member company will begin previews on October 23 at the Neil Simon Theatre, and the musical will open on November 15, directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.

The Broadway revival will star Ron Bohmer (Father), Quentin Earl Darrington (Coalhouse Walker, Jr.), Christiane Noll (Mother), Robert Petkoff ...

Steve Blanchard will play the monster and Christiane Noll has been cast as Dr. Frankenstein's wife, Elizabeth, in the forthcoming off-Broadway musical Frankenstein, joining the previously announced Hunter Foster as Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The show, a more serious musical retelling of Mary Shelley's epic story than the Broadway-bound Young Frankenstein, will begin performances at 37 Arts on October ...

Broadway.com has learned that Christiane Noll has won the role of Vanna Vane, the cigarette girl who attracts the attention of Cesar Castillo, in the upcoming Broadway musical version of The Mambo Kings. She is currently in talks to join previously reported stars Esai Morales appearing as Cesar, Jaime Camil, Billy Dee Williams, Albita and Justina Machado in the ...