Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is particularly known for her performances in Broadway musicals. In 1989 she won an Obie Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway musical Romance in Hard Times. In 1997 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for portraying Sonja in Cy Coleman's The Life. She was nominated for a Tony Award again in 2010 for her work as Funmilayo in Fela Kuti's Fela!.
White is also known for her roles as Calliope in the Disney film Hercules (1997), and its animated series of the same name; Evette in the film Pieces of April (2003); and as Fat Annie in the Netflix series The Get Down. She has also starred as Bloody Mary in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific on PBS's Great Performances with Reba McEntire, and in the PBS documentary In Performance at the White House. She is an active cabaret singer and has appeared in concert with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and at Carnegie Hall.
LilliasWhite (born July 21, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is particularly known for her performances in Broadway musicals. In 1989 she...
A second tour began in 1985, with Sharon Brown as Effie. By 1987, LilliasWhite, Jennifer Holliday's understudy in the first road production, had taken...
Phillip Boykin Persephone: Lana Gordon, Betty Who, Ani DiFranco Hermes: LilliasWhite, Jon Jon Briones North American Tour (2021–) Persephone: Maria-Christina...
ran until January 17, 2016. The cast also featured Stefanie Powers, LilliasWhite, and André De Shields. The musical was directed and choreographed by...
In 2002, the original Broadway cast was reunited with special guest LilliasWhite to perform the show for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Cantor...
same ones from Hercules and its related projects. Calliope (voiced by LilliasWhite) - A Muse who presides over poetry. Thalia (voiced by Roz Ryan) - A...
Broadway.com. Retrieved 2020-11-20. Araujo, Roberto (2020-11-25). "Watch LilliasWhite, James Monroe Iglehart, and Andrew Barth Feldman in a Sneak Peek of...
with Malone reprising her role as Dorothy, who was later replaced by LilliasWhite. A revival ran on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from May 24...
p. 63 Rothstein, Mervyn (January 4, 2010). "A Life in the Theatre: LilliasWhite". Playbill. Retrieved August 25, 2019. Schuchmann, John S. (1979). "Filmography"...
December 2015 through January 2016. The cast also starred Georgia Engel, LilliasWhite, and Andre DeShields. The musical was directed and choreographed by...
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alongside Reg E. Cathey, Mark Margolis, Agustín Silva, Alia Shawkat, LilliasWhite, and Anthony Chisholm. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film...
Band, written by Christopher Cerf. "Bounce Back", sung by Lillian (LilliasWhite); Animated by Paul Fierlinger using the same stop motion animation used...
officially on October 12. In addition to Porter, the cast included LilliasWhite and S. Epatha Merkerson. Porter released Billy Porter Presents the Soul...
June 29, 2015 Viagas, Robert. "Broadway-Bound Gotta Dance, Starring LilliasWhite, André De Shields and Georgia Engel, Bows in Chicago" playbill.com,...
staging that same year featured Blair Underwood, Anika Noni Rose, LilliasWhite, and John Cullum. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Purlie. Kourlas...
The cast stars André De Shields, Georgia Engel, Donna McKechnie, and LilliasWhite. He wrote the book with Bob Martin and lyrics for a new musical The...
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