MELBA MOORE TO PERFORM AT BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE
November 20, 2000 - From the Broadway stage to film, television and the recording studio, Tony Award winner and two-time Grammy Award nominee Melba Moore’s amazing array of skills have dazzled audiences across the country.
On Friday, December 15, the Bloomfield College community will certainly be dazzled as well.
Moore will be the featured performer at Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre’s Holiday Cabaret at 8 p.m. on December 15 at Westminster Arts Center. She will also receive Dreamcatcher’s second annual “Homegrown Artist” Award. Tickets to the event are $25 per person.
The College community is also invited to a free dress rehearsal at 7 p.m. on December 14 in the theatre.
Moore began her career singing jingles and background vocals but hit it big when she joined the cast of the Broadway musical, Hair. During her 18 months with the show, she played a variety of roles and eventually, as one critic described it, “changed the color of Hair,” by becoming the first African American actress to play the female lead.
After Hair, Moore went on to play the role of Lutiebelle in the long running musical Purlie. For her show-stopping performance in Purlie, Moore won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical and was honored with the Drama Desk and New York Times Drama Critics Award. This role also launched a successful recording career.
Her debut album, Peach Melba, earned Melba Moore a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist. From her roster of over a dozen albums, she has also scored many pop and R&B hits, including “I Am His Lady,” “This Is It,” “You Stepped Into My Life,” and her Grammy-nominated signature song, “Lean On Me.”
Her 1990 recording of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was instrumental in having that song entered into the Congressional Record as the Official African American National Anthem.
Along with her recording success, Moore has appeared in feature films and on television in such shows as The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show and the miniseries, Ellis Island. In 1996, she took over the role of Fantine in the Broadway musical, Les Miserables.
For tickets to the Dreamcatcher gala, call (973) 748-9000 x995.
