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U is for Leslie Uggams. Her Broadway career in photos and videos by Jonathan Mandell

The Harlem-born daughter of a chorus dancer at the Cotton Club and a singer in the Hall Johnson choir, Leslie Uggams began performing on television at the age of six; at seven, she was opening for Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theater. It wasn't until the ripe old age of 23 that...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 3:26pm on August 13, 2020 ☆ ⚑

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