Star of Fame and Carrie the Musical Dead

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 10:09pm

Gene Anthony Ray, the original Eugene in Fame who played the John Travolta role in Carrie: The Musical is dead of a stroke at age 41, according to the crawl on CNN.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 10:11pm

That's ashame...

[Elphie]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 10:12pm

RIP Gene Anthony Ray- Love from Broadway.

[Corine2]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 10:12pm

I am sad to hear it and so young. What did he die of?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 10:20pm

The crawl said it was a stroke. A LOOONNNNG time ago the Enquirer said he had AIDS. So who knows?

[sweeedboy]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 10:43pm

I saw some random interview with him awhile ago... if i remember correctly he was living in Prague or something and looked CRACKED OUT!! He could hardly form sentences. Who knows

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 11:27pm

Wasn't his name Leroy in Fame?

That's so sad. Wow, he was SO young in Fame...I still have the episode of the Fame TV series where Doris dreams she's in the Wizard of Oz...I think Leroy was the Scarecrow in that. I must have watched that about 900 times when I was little.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/19/03 at 11:41pm

Yahoo reports that he was HIV-positive and died of a stroke.

Updated On: 11/19/03 at 11:41 PM