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10 Featured Actresses Who Stopped Their Musicals This Season

Last updated June 3rd, 2016 by Josh Ferri
10 Featured Actresses Who Stopped Their Musicals This Season

This year was a great year to be a featured actress in a musical—the five who snagged Tony nominations would all be winners in another season, and some who weren’t even nominated would have been winners in another season. The 10 ladies spotlighted below (in order of show opening) all stopped their respective musicals when they took center stage to sing these numbers.

Renee Elise Goldsberry, “Satisfied”, Hamilton


Lesli Margherita, “That Mister Man of Mine”, Dames at Sea


Andrea Burns, “Mi Tierra”, On Your Feet!

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Danielle Brooks, “Hell No!”, The Color Purple


Jennifer Simard “Never Can Say Goodbye”, Disaster!


Jane Krakowski, “Trip to the Library”, She Loves Me


Hannah Elless, “Asheville”, Bright Star


Helene Yorke (& Morgan Weed), “You Are What You Wear”, American Psycho


Keala Settle, “I Didn’t Plan It”, Waitress


Adrienne Warren, "I'm Simply Full of Jazz" and “I'm Cravin' That Kind of Love”, Shuffle Along

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Photo by Julieta Cervantes

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