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Leslie Uggams
Broadway, Television and Recording Star, Leslie Uggams, visited Wright State University’s Musical Theatre Initiative
The Musical Theatre Initiative at Wright State University was pleased to welcome Broadway, Television, Film and Recording legend, Leslie Uggams, as its first Master Teaching Artist. Ms. Uggams visited Wright State University for master classes and a public interview (Thursday, January 22) and an intimate concert (8 p.m., January 23). All classes were held on campus in Wright State University’s Creative Arts Center, while the concert was at The Victoria Theatre, in downtown Dayton, OH.
Leslie Uggams is a Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer whose career has brought her from Harlem (Uptown) to Broadway (Downtown), the big screen (Skyjacked) to television (The Leslie Uggams Show). Perhaps best known for her stirring portrayal of Kizzy in the landmark TV mini-series Alex Haley’s Roots (Critics Choice Award, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Ms. Uggams has performed to critical and popular acclaim ever since her first professional appearances at the age of nine at the famed Apollo Theater. There she opened for such musical legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. Now, after six decades on stage and screen, Ms. Uggams is a legend in her own right. She is now on the Board of Directors of the Apollo Theater, and she was recently honored with the American Artist Award in a gala ceremony held at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.
On Broadway Ms. Uggams made her stunning musical theater debut starring in Hallelujah, Baby! earning both Tony and Theater World awards. Since then she has starred on Broadway in Blues in the Night, Her First Roman with Richard Kiley, Jerry’s Girls, Anything Goes at the Lincoln Center Theatre (also the first national tour), King Headley II with Brian Stokes Mitchell (Tony Award nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie, and most recently On Golden Pond opposite James Earl Jones.
Broadway star Leslie Uggams delivers inspiring message to Wright State students
