His dream was to play Jean Valjean and on June 23rd, 2015, Kyle Jean-Baptiste, an African-American actor from Brooklyn, made Broadway history when he became the first African-American and, at 21, the youngest actor to play the lead in Les Misérables. Last Friday night, August 25th, the night after performing the starring role, he died […] The post Kyle Jean-Baptiste, rising Broadway star, dies at 21 appeared f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AM on August 31, 2015