In 1981, Lena Horne took her nightclub performances and transformed it into a one-woman show on Broadway. The Lady And Her Music, as it was called, had Lena telling personal stories and performing ...

Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, Special Citation (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music ...

notably 1981's Broadway smash Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music aren't just written off to prejudice and a troubled youth. Gavin documents critics' qualms and Horne's own doubts about her ...

"Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music," on Broadway in the '80s. "She insisted on a level of sophistication in the 1940s and '50s that was not allowed to people of color, a lyrical interpretation ...

They call me their crazy grandmother.” Horne`s last big one-woman show, ”Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music,” was one of the hottest tickets in New York during a 14-month run in 1981-82.

Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, has ...

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne ... It was at the Café Society that Horne learned about African American history, politics, and culture and developed a new appreciation of her heritage.

Her 1981 one-woman Broadway show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, won a special Tony Award. Loading Horne married Louis Jordan Jones in January 1937. They had a daughter, Gail, and a son ...

Michael Frazier, the producer behind Broadway's Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, died at the age of 72 last week of complications with Parkinson's disease in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

There were students who didn't really know her, and I just felt that, you know, something should be done. FADEL: So Bogle wrote a book, "Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed." He spoke with our co-host ...

titled "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music," which played to capacity for 14 months. Born Lena Mary Calhoun Horne on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, Horne's parents divorced when she was ...