Broadway star Lillias White

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • For Broadway veteran Lillias White, it all began as a child in Brooklyn, N.Y., when relatives encouraged her to dance and sing on her grandmother's dining room table. The 71-year-old actress, who won a Tony Award for "The Life," is now starring in the Broadway musical "Hadestown." She talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about her role models growing up; her relationship with the audience; and setting the standard for singing standards.
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Комментарии • 75

  • @donnabaardsen5372
    @donnabaardsen5372 Год назад +70

    What an incredible voice! She absolutely doesn't look 71.

    • @recherche4528
      @recherche4528 Год назад +3

      Can we just stop using the terminology “she doesn’t look..” ? Saying women don’t look their age or look good for their age is so yesterday. 🙄

    • @jeffreysalley
      @jeffreysalley Год назад +4

      I was shocked when they said. 71. I've only seen her on different RUclips videos so in my mind she's frozen in time.

    • @donnabaardsen5372
      @donnabaardsen5372 Год назад

      @@recherche4528 Oh please, grow up, and go woke someplace else. Speak for yourself, none of this "we..." business. Any person who looks so terrific at that age absolutely deserves having that said about them. Looking fabulous is never "... yesterday." We have to wonder how YOU look, since it bothers you so much.

    • @donnabaardsen5372
      @donnabaardsen5372 Год назад +1

      @@jeffreysalley Yes, absolutely!

  • @Triforce829
    @Triforce829 Год назад +27

    I remember seeing Lillias White when I was 3 years old in 1993 on Sesame Street at my grandmother’s house!!! I owe my life as a musician to her because something about the quality of her singing made me devote my life to music at age 3!!! I got my start because of you Lillias, I hope to meet you and thank you one day!!!

  • @pam0626
    @pam0626 Год назад +31

    Thank you, CBS Sunday, for spotlighting Broadway actors.

  • @PatrickVerst
    @PatrickVerst Год назад +14

    Lillias White is a national treasure

  • @BKDAYZ
    @BKDAYZ Год назад +19

    Lovvvvvvve that this black, legendary performer is getting her flowers. Go Lillias!!

  • @corneliuswhite5139
    @corneliuswhite5139 Год назад +24

    What a welcome tribute for someone who deserves her flowers!!

  • @philipciaffa6643
    @philipciaffa6643 Год назад +45

    Great Interview! A Great Lady! An impressive retrospective of her origins, career and outlook. Not an easy path, but she navigated successfully with a support system, determination and incredible talent.

  • @thebrothaj
    @thebrothaj Год назад +8

    lillias white is a TREASURE!

  • @dantecandelora6945
    @dantecandelora6945 Год назад +11

    She’s Great! She voiced one of the muses from The Disney animated feature Hercules and she played Lillian the teacher on Sesame Street from 1989 to 1993!

  • @saxyben81
    @saxyben81 Год назад +8

    I have to be honest, I was skeptical about a female playing Hermes. Then here on RUclips I saw her first night and she embodied Ms. Hermes and rocked it! I am so happy she is in the role. She brings a new take on the role and it was needed. Would love to see her in Hadestown! Or anything for that matter. So talented!! ❤❤❤

  • @DRUOPS
    @DRUOPS Год назад +19

    If you haven't already, check out her "Bali Ha'i" from the Carnegie Hall concert version of "South Pacific" with Reba McEntire. Absolute perfection.

  • @cathyspyrie907
    @cathyspyrie907 Год назад +9

    I am so grateful that you continue to shine light - Lillias White - amazing lady. very glad I found her. Her mother working for Billie? Billie has been my fave since age 15.

  • @liliana1lfr
    @liliana1lfr Год назад +14

    1:44 Don't get in the way of my joy!!

  • @cde2615
    @cde2615 Год назад +2

    I've known Lillias for decades.
    She's the REAL DEAL.
    Immensely talented (#duh), gloriously in the moment, caring, kind . . . and divine.

  • @adelaferreira4575
    @adelaferreira4575 Год назад +5

    Wow she doesn’t even look fifty , she looks beautiful and her voice sounds amazing ,many blessed years ahead of happy singing !

  • @scottsmith2505
    @scottsmith2505 Год назад +3

    We saw Hadestown on Christmas Eve. Lillias White was Fantastic! So glad she was part of the cast.

  • @janices6140
    @janices6140 Год назад +6

    Ms Lillias White, you inspire me. Wishing you joy! Your talent and hard work earns you all the accolades you're receiving.

  • @cherylrleigh1912
    @cherylrleigh1912 Год назад +4

    Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is particularly known for her performances in Broadway musicals. In 1989 she won an Obie Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway musical Romance in Hard Times. In 1997 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for portraying Sonja in Cy Coleman's The Life. She was nominated for a Tony Award again in 2010 for her work as Funmilayo in Fela Kuti's Fela!.
    White is also known for her roles as Calliope in the Disney film Hercules (1997), and its animated series of the same name; Evette in the film Pieces of April (2003); and as Fat Annie in the Netflix series The Get Down. She has also starred as Bloody Mary in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific on PBS' Great Performances with Reba McEntire, and in the PBS documentary In Performance at the White House. She is an active cabaret singer and has appeared in concert with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and at Carnegie Hall. Source Wikipedia

  • @DanCrowleyNYC
    @DanCrowleyNYC Год назад +2

    This is lovely! Lillias is amazing (and amazing in Hadestown), and Mo is such a great interviewer and I have loved serving him drinks down at Duplex over the years!

  • @tomwestfld392
    @tomwestfld392 Год назад +3

    Incredible talent and so sweet, kind and caring to a friend I know on Broadway.....and imagine he isn't the only one she looks out for.

  • @davept2580
    @davept2580 Год назад +4

    "We are the Muses....". That's all it takes ;)

  • @maryannkochanski5777
    @maryannkochanski5777 Год назад +6

    Incredible woman.

  • @biancang158
    @biancang158 Год назад +3

    Loved Her ever since I was a kid and one of my favorite childhood actress lilias white from Disney’s Hercules too 💕😊beautiful lady

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732 Год назад +3

    I loved Hades Town.

  • @jae6506
    @jae6506 Год назад +3

    Living Legend👏🏽👏🏽🫶🏽

  • @meloneymoore8856
    @meloneymoore8856 Год назад +3

    She is my true hero!

  • @nelsonvega3444
    @nelsonvega3444 9 месяцев назад

    I just found her recently and I’m sorry I missed all her performances…I love her everything..she reminds me of a great woman I worked with…God bless her ..

  • @ralphlampkinjr.7325
    @ralphlampkinjr.7325 Год назад +5

    A fascinating interview

  • @LizaFan
    @LizaFan Год назад +3

    National treasure.

  • @nlp6082
    @nlp6082 Год назад +3

    Great story of a true talent ❤

  • @jeanashchuchinov6593
    @jeanashchuchinov6593 Год назад +4

    Wish I could go see her

  • @maryhurst4663
    @maryhurst4663 Год назад +3

    Wow!

  • @jeffreysalley
    @jeffreysalley Год назад +28

    Her version of dont rain on my parade is the best ever! Better than Streisand. There. I said it!

    • @LizaFan
      @LizaFan Год назад +6

      I live for the audible gasp from the crowd 1:37

    • @rileysummers484
      @rileysummers484 Год назад +1

      And you are 100% correct

  • @tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t
    @tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t Год назад +1

    THATS MY GIRL FROM SESAME STREET!
    SHE BE BLOWING, NIECE!!!!!

  • @khamikins
    @khamikins Год назад +1

    love lillias!

  • @nathanrusso8047
    @nathanrusso8047 Год назад +4

    Fantastic voice. So much joy and fun she she sings

  • @colleenkennedy1407
    @colleenkennedy1407 Год назад

    Such a lovely lady!

  • @Angela-pi6zc
    @Angela-pi6zc Год назад

    Thank you for introducing me to Ms. White!

  • @herbstencil
    @herbstencil Год назад +2

    Lovely mi amigo... ❤

  • @alyh3721
    @alyh3721 Год назад +2

    I'm in love :)

  • @KlyBell
    @KlyBell Год назад +2

    "...and the arts said, "Not you.""

  • @thekaerichtexas
    @thekaerichtexas Год назад

    She's having a big resurgence and good for her. I wish I was in New york to see hadestown but alas I live in texas

  • @MercuryBubble
    @MercuryBubble Год назад

    I loooooove her!

  • @deepnation10009
    @deepnation10009 Год назад

    I love her

  • @jessicabw
    @jessicabw Год назад

    Amazing story!!! ❤

  • @SamSung-ww3rp
    @SamSung-ww3rp Год назад +3

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @zeepickens9049
    @zeepickens9049 Год назад +1

    ❤👑❤

  • @vancemars1174
    @vancemars1174 Год назад

    3:15 YOU BETTER SAY THAT SHT AGAIN LILLIAS😭😭

  • @dadrienedavis
    @dadrienedavis Год назад

    My birthday twin ❤️♋️💪🏾

  • @doriancoreyscloset421
    @doriancoreyscloset421 Год назад +2

    *THE 0 TO HERO HERCULES LADY!*

  • @Dimi374
    @Dimi374 Год назад

    The Wiz as Dorothy!!

  • @janicescott-pair97
    @janicescott-pair97 Год назад

    God wants our light to shine, no matter how old we are.

  • @tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t
    @tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t Год назад

    LOL NOT HIGH COTTON, CHILE...
    I LIIIIVE!

  • @wootang28
    @wootang28 Год назад +5

    Did she ever apologize for mistakenly yelling at a hard of hearing audience member?

    • @nicoletrudell2065
      @nicoletrudell2065 Год назад +6

      Yes. For those who don't know, she thought someone was rudely using their phone during the show and detracting from other audience members' experience, as actors weren't briefed about phones being used as captioning devices for hard-of-hearing patrons. That's honestly on the production for not explaining this to casts, because most of the time it is simply just someone being rude by using their phones to text etc.

    • @DNBursky
      @DNBursky Год назад +4

      @@nicoletrudell2065 I don't think she apologized the production/PR did. Too much ego isn't good.

    • @devinruschak5903
      @devinruschak5903 Год назад +4

      Actually she did not apologize at all. I’ll wait while you try to find proof heh cause it doesn’t exist. That’s why the uproar was so bad over it.

    • @samarijohnson1595
      @samarijohnson1595 Год назад +5

      I love how y’all are choosing to be angry with her. BUT, actively STILL applauding Patti when she did it. And the person she did it to was a literal JOURNALIST/PHOTOGRAPHER!

    • @samarijohnson1595
      @samarijohnson1595 Год назад +8

      And FYI, Lillias did give a public apology. In which, you’d know about if you did a quick Google search. Your racism is showing and it isn’t cute whatsoever. You chose to come to a video showing love to a wonderful performer. And rather than celebrate her, you spew hate. It’s uncalled for and unbecoming. Do better please.

  • @ElizaHamilton1780
    @ElizaHamilton1780 Год назад +1

    So why hasn’t she apologized to that Deaf woman who was using the theater’s in-house device for the hearing impaired? A device THAT WAS NOT A PHONE.

    • @ElizaHamilton1780
      @ElizaHamilton1780 Год назад +1

      Let’s get blunt about this. Lilias ain’t Patti LuPone. And she still owes that Deaf woman an apology.

  • @Resdue007
    @Resdue007 Год назад +4

    How long is this show on broadway?

  • @madulaoblongata1903
    @madulaoblongata1903 Год назад +1

    I found Hadestown insipid. Boring. What has Broadway devolved into?