Earlier this year, Valisia LeKae made a splash on The Great White Way playing — what many thought was to be — the role of her lifetime as Diana Ross in Motown The Musical. A little over six months after the Berry Gordy-produced show became one of Broadway's biggest box-office hits of 2013, the Tony Award-nominated performer discovered she has ovarian cancer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on December 25, 2013