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LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze (/ l ə ˈ ʃ ɑː n z /; born December 16, 1961), is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple.
The Color Purple is a musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the 1982 novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation. The musical follows the journey of Celie, an African American woman in the American South from the early to mid-20th century.
After her theatre debut in the early 2010s, Erivo garnered critical attention with her lead role as Celie, a young woman suffering abuse in the deep south in the Broadway revival of the musical The Color Purple, being awarded with the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
The Color Purple. Taraji P. Henson is ... starring LaChanze and later American Idol Season 3 winner Fantasia Barrino. The musical was nominated for 11 Tony Awards and became such a massive success ...
Oprah, who made her unforgettable film debut as Sofia in the 1985 movie, has served as a Color Purple “whisperer” of sorts ever since: She was a producer of the 2015 Tony Award–winning ...
Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Erivo (/ ə ˈ r iː v oʊ / ə-REE-voh; [2] born 8 January 1987) is a British actress and singer. She has received several accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
In 2005, "The Color Purple" opened on Broadway with LaChanze playing the role of Celie. Her performance as the titular character helped LaChanze win a Tony Award.
Hamilton received a record-setting 16 nominations in 13 categories, ultimately winning 11 awards, the second-most for a single production in Tony history. [4] The revival of The Color Purple won two awards. The Humans won four awards, and the revival productions of plays Long Day's Journey into Night and A View from the Bridge each won two awards.