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Bert Williams in The Ziegfeld Follies, 1910. But after Walker fell ill from syphilis in 1909 (he would die two years later), Florenz Ziegfeld invited Williams to be a headliner in his Follies of 1910, making him the first Black to perform on Broadway as an equal alongside whites.
Black on Broadway: Check out these Black or Black-led plays and...
- Playbill reported that previews of the play were slated to begin at New York's James Earl Jones Theatre on April 3 for a limited engagement. ...
- Black Mother Lost Daughter.
- Bernada's Daughters.
- Disney's Hercules.
- Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical.
Jackson, Ossie Davis, Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover, and Eddie Murphy. Of course, you'll also find young Black actors who've recently risen to the top, like John David Washington, Chadwick Boseman, LaKeith Stanfield, and Donald Glover.
On Broadway, representation for Black performers improved, as they accounted for 29% of roles in the 2018-2019 season, according to the AAPAC. But Latino representation dropped from 6.1 to 4.8% and Asian American representation dropped from 6.9 to 6.3%. For Indigenous actors, the number dropped down to zero from . 2%.
Horne, who was born in Brooklyn in 1917, started her historic career when she was just 16 years old at Harlem's legendary Cotton Club, which has seen the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole and many others. Just a year later, according to PBS, she had her Broadway debut in Dance With Your Gods.
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