Celebrate Tony Award Winner LaChanze With a Look at Her Stage Highlights | Playbill

Photo Features Celebrate Tony Award Winner LaChanze With a Look at Her Stage Highlights The actor celebrates her birthday December 16.
LaChanze and Elizabeth Teeter Ahron R. Foster

Tony Award winner LaChanze celebrates her birthday December 16.

LaChanze made her Broadway debut in the ensemble of Uptown… It’s Hot! in 1986, launching an award-winning career on the Main Stem. In the following years, she originated seminal roles in musical theatre, including Ti Moune in Once On This Island (earning a Tony nomination), Celie in The Color Purple (winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical), and more. She can currently been seen onstage starring in Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind at the American Airlines Theatre.

In honor of LaChanze, take a look at highlights from her stage career.

Celebrate Tony Award Winner LaChanze With a Look at Her Stage Highlights

 
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