Jessica Vosk in 'Beaches.' Marc J Franklin

Currently taking on the role that made Bette Midler a star, Vosk is offering audiences her take on a beloved song not in the stage show.

5/1/2026

Like so many others, Jessica Vosk first encountered Bette Midler when, as a teen, she saw the 1988 movie Beaches . In the musical comedy about the friendship between two women who meet as girls in Atlantic City, Midler memorably played Cee Cee, a brash New Yorker who pursues a career as a singer, and in the movie memorably sings the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “The Wind Beneath My Wings.”

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“I just thought: ‘Wow. This woman is electric and brave and unapologetic. I want to be like her,'” Vosk tells Billboard .…