STAGE TUBE: Audra McDonald Performs 'Rainbow High' from EVITA at Carnegie Hall

By: Apr. 30, 2015
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Audra McDonald brought her Broadway prowess to Carnegie Hall last night, April 29, 2015 and performed "Rainbow High" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's EVITA -- a role she first took on at the age of 16 in Fresno, Calif. Watch a clip of her fierce performance below!

With a record six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a long list of other accolades to her name, McDonald is among today's most highly regarded performers. McDonald grew up in Fresno and received her classical vocal training at The Juilliard School.

A year after graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carouselat Lincoln Center Theater. She received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category over the next four years for her performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998), earning her an unprecedented three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony, starring alongside Sean "Diddy" Combs in A Raisin in the Sun, and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category--for her role in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.

In 2014, she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards' most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. In addition to setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor, she also became the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories.

McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007), and her Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009).



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