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 ...

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 ...

In 1993, a decade after their collaboration on the Broadway cast album Lena Horne: A Lady and Her Music, Quincy Jones and Lena Horne co-presented the award. In 1996, a few years after they co ...

and soon she was set up for a four-week engagement of Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. This short engagement turned into a whopping 333-performance run—a record for a solo show on Broadway.

Thus, Hollywood took pride in its “creation” of Lena Horne ... her life spiraling into a sad decline. Two film versions of Show Boat had already been released: in 1929 without the famous music ...

as it coincided with her Emmy nomination for her album Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. Horne’s journey to the cover of ESSENCE Magazine was a culmination of decades of dedication to her craft.

Horne's name is synonymous with jazz in Detroit. Her great aunt was legendary movie star Lena Horne and her uncle ... join us for a weekend of exceptional music, cultural enrichment, and heartfelt ...

And in 1981, she received a Special Tony Award for “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.” Lena Horne was a trailblazing performer and longtime civil rights activist whose film credits include ...

And in 1981, she received a Special Tony Award for "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music." Julie Andrews: Actress talks 87th birthday, 'Mary Poppins' and whether she'll return to Broadway The ...

Lena Horne's 1981 show The Lady And Her Music is the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history Actress Lena Horne has become the first black woman to have a Broadway theatre named in her ...

In 1981, she received a special Tony Award for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, a one-woman Broadway show in which she sang and discussed the ups and downs of her life. "She opened so many ...

and it recalls the time of her Broadway triumph from 1981 to 1982 in "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music." Her granddaughter, screenwriter Jenny Lumet, told the crowd outside the theater to follow ...