Perhaps the marking of a great stage actor is that when you meet them in real life, it takes you a second or two to realize they're the same person you saw on stage just a few nights before. Such was the case with Laiona Michelle who as Nanna in Amazing Grace rips your heart out of your chest as she conveys an entire history of suffering in a few scenes, and who, out of character had an endlessly cheery, sunny demean…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:51PM on July 16, 2015