LaChanze in The Color Purple a couple years later won the Tony and then was eclipsed but a perfectly parted Fantasia Burrino (though she was such an erratic hot mess it was basically even odds you’d see her if you bought tickets) and then Erivo gave such a star-making performance in the revival ten years later that I don’t think anyone even ... More @Wikipedia
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