LACHANZE

She’s no stranger to the Tony Awards, winning best actress in a leading role in a musical in 2006 for her role in The Color Purple. LaChanze looked fab in a green jumpsuit.

“Moulin Rouge.

A wide Broadway coalition of theater owners, producers, union leaders, creators and casting directors have hammered out a series of reforms and commitments for the theater industry to ensure equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

As performers return to Broadway stages, "Sunday Morning" debuts a short film from NYCNext that honors the city, with a performance of the Billy Joel classic by such talents as Sara Bareilles, Cautious Clay, Anaïs Reno and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

FILE - Rebecca Luker, left, and her husband Danny Burstein arrive at the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York on June 9, 2019. Luker, 59, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, said Sarah Fargo, her agent. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES – Soprano Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday. She was 59Her death was announced by her husband, veteran Broadway actor Danny Burstein, who said in a statement “our family is devastated. Luker made her Broadway debut in 1988 in “The Phantom of the Opera” first as an understudy to Sarah Brightman and then playing Christine opposite the legendary Michael Crawford.