Mt. Vernon’s LaChanze has Valentine date

January

LaChanze, Mount Vernon’s Tony-winner and the star of “The Color Purple,” “Ragtime,” “Company,” “Once On This Island,” “Uptown it’s Hot!,” “The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds her Chameleon Skin,” and “The Vagina Monologues,” will play a one-night-only engagement at the Highline Ballroom on Valentine’s Day at 7 p.m. — “LaChanze Sings About Love.”
The Highline is at 431 W. 16th St., Manhattan. Call 212-414-5994 or go to www.highlineballroom.com.

Then, LaChanze begins a monthlong run at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons, starting March 5, in “Inked Baby.” Here’s a blurb on the show from the Playwrights Horizons season schedule:

“INKED BABY
The World Premiere of a new play by Christina Anderson. Featuring Tony Award winner LaChanze, Angela Lewis, Nana Mensah, and Obie Award winner Nikkole Salter. Directed by Kate Whoriskey.
“Man, is it hard love or tough love I’m tryin’ to do?”
Stuck for money and unable to conceive, Gloria enlists the aid of her sister to make the child that she and her husband can’t. As they uneasily await the baby’s arrival, a mysterious contamination spreads outside. But consumed by their own struggles, is anyone paying attention? In this imaginative, other-worldly new drama, one family fights to find its place in a neglected neighborhood.”

Journal News file photo by Seth Harrison: LaChanze speaks to student actors at Mount Vernon High School on May 22, 2007.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 9:31 am by Peter D. Kramer.
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