Lillias White was born on July 21,1951 and is an American actress and singer.
17 Facts About Lillias White
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Lillias White is particularly known for her performances in Broadway musicals.
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Lillias White has 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.
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Lillias White is an active cabaret singer and has appeared in concert with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and at Carnegie Hall.
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Lillias White is a Brooklyn, New York native who made her Broadway debut in Barnum in 1981.
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In 2014, Lillias White appeared Off-Broadway in the Primary Stages production of the play While I Yet Live by Billy Porter.
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In 2015, Lillias White starred with Scott Wakefield Off-Broadway in the York Theatre Company's World premiere of Alan Govenar's musical Texas in Paris.
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Lillias White was the first woman to play the role.
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Lillias White was unaware that this audience member was not recording, and was in fact using a captioning device because she was disabled and needed it to understand the dialogue of the musical.
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Lillias White performed in the concert version of South Pacific, which was broadcast by PBS Great Performances in 2006.
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Lillias White performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in a concert of works by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and George and Ira Gershwin celebrating the orchestra's 50th anniversary in July 2003.
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Lillias White has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall, in March 2004, singing Harold Arlen songs with the New York Pops.
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Lillias White performed her one-woman show at the Kennedy Center's "Barbara Cook's Spotlight" in November 2007, singing songs by Cy Coleman.
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Lillias White has toured with her one-woman cabaret show From Brooklyn to Broadway, which she first presented in March 2000 at Arci's Place in New York City.
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Lillias White performed the show in San Francisco in 2003 at the Plush Room.
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Lillias White is heard on the 1990 Madonna recording "Rescue Me".
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Lillias White has a son named Mwambu and daughter named Jamilah.