Industry NewsNorm Lewis and Joshua Henry Battle It Out at Live Streamed Broadway VS June 20
Amber Iman hosts the Broadway Advocacy Coalition fundraiser.
By
Raven Brunner
June 20, 2022
Norm Lewis, Joshua Henry, and Amber Iman
Broadway Advocacy Coalition's second annual Broadway VS celebrates stage veterans Norm Lewis and Joshua Henry. The event live streams from New World Stages June 20 at 7:30 PM.
The evening, hosted by Amber Iman, features a conversation between the two Tony nominees and songs from their stage careers, including music from Once on This Island, Carousel, and The Little Mermaid.
Lewis' stage credits include Chicken and Biscuits, The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Once on This Island, and the title character in the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre. In 2014, he made history as the first African American Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.
The actor recently starred in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods and FX's Pose. Other screen credits include Women of The Movement (also starring Adrienne Warren), Apple TV's animated series Central Park, and NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!, alongside John Legend, Tony nominee Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper.
Henry is currently in Apple TV's See and previous starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Netflix adaptation of Tick, Tick...BOOM!. His stage credits include Violet, Carousel,Waitress, Off-Broadway's The Wrong Man at MCC Theatre,Hamilton in Los Angeles, and he will soon be seen in the Broadway transfer of New York City Center's Into the Woods.
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