Manhattan Adult Entertainment: A Life in the Theatre: Lillias White
Lillias White, a Tony winner for The Life, plays the matronly life force of Fela! on Broadway.
Lillias White won the Tony, Drama Desk, Peoples Choice and Outer Critics Circle Awards in 1997 for her role as Sonja in The Life, the Cy Coleman musical about the lives of prostitutes. She won an Obie Award in 1990 as Hennie in William Finn’s Romance in Hard Times. Her other Broadway credits include Barnum, Once on This Island, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the original production and 1987 revival of Dreamgirls. White, 58, won an Emmy Award for her regular role on “Sesame Street.” She is currently appearing at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in Fela!, the new Broadway musical about the life of the African composer and performer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, portraying his mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.
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