Ethel Waters

Date of Death: September 01, 1977 (76)

Birth Place: Chester, PA, USA

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Ethel Waters STAGE CREDITS

[Broadway]
Concert [Broadway], 1953
Performer

[Broadway]
1950
Berenice Sadie Brown

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1945
Performer

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1943
Performer

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1940
Petunia Jackson

[Broadway]
Return Engagement [Broadway], 1940
Hagar

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1939
Hagar

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1935
"Thief in the Night" Performer

"The Steamboad Whistle" Performer

"Hottentot Potentate" Performer

"Got a Bran' New Suit" Performer

Featured Performer

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1933
"I've Got Harlem on My Mind" Singer

"Supper Time" Singer

Performer

"To Be Or Not To Be" Singer

"Heat Wave Hits New York" Singer

Ella

Josephine Baker

Woman

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1931
Performer

[Broadway]
1930
Performer

[Broadway]
1928
Performer

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1927
Performer

Writing

Composer
Lyricist

Ethel Waters Movies

[1929]On with the Show! Ethel

[1934]Gift of Gab Ethel Waters

[1942]Cairo Cleona Jones

[1942]Tales of Manhattan Esther

[1943]Stage Door Canteen Ethel Waters

[1943]Cabin in the Sky Petunia Jackson

[1949]Pinky Dicey Johnson

[1952]The Member of the Wedding Berenice Sadie Brown

[1957]Carib Gold Mom

[1958]The Heart Is a Rebel Gladys

[1959]The Sound and the Fury Dilsey

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Review: AFTER MIDNIGHT at Paper Mill Playhouse-A Jazzy, Exhilarating Musical Revue Celebrating the Harlem Renaissance

Paper Mill Playhouse is now presenting After Midnight, a scintillating musical revue.

FRIGID New York Reveals Full Schedule For 2024 The Fire This Time Festival

FRIGID New York announces the full schedule for the 2024 The Fire This Time Festival.

The Milt Hinton Institute For Studio Bass At NJPAC To Welcome Young Musicians For Summer Program At Montclair State University

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will host the Milt Hinton Institute for Studio Bass, an exceptional summer music education program for teens, in residence at Montclair State University, in July 2024. 

NJPAC to Host The Milt Hinton Institute for Studio Bass Summer Music Education Program for Teens

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The Fire This Time Festival Finds New Home at The Wild Project

FRIGID New York will present the 2024 The Fire This Time Festival at a brand new home this January. The Obie Award winning festival will be celebrating its 15th anniversary with the return of its annual Ten-Minute Play Program at The Wild Project.

Florance and Jamison Star As Ethel Waters in Kennie Playhouse Theatre's HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW

While we wait for Ethel Waters to get the large-scale showbiz treatment she deserves, Nashville audiences, for now at least, can show respect and give recognition to the legendary figure who is brought to life onstage once more by Connye Florance and Saaneah Jamison via the Kennie Playhouse Theatre production of Parr’s His Eye Is On the Sparrow: The Ethel Waters Musical. Director Kennie Dozier’s production is somewhat uneven, but his two leading ladies – the aforementioned Florance and Jamison – are mesmerizing, each one creating her own indelible portrait and unique interpretation of Ethel Waters in two acts that feature some of her best-known songs, tunes that are a part of the Great American Songbook and among the most haunting, most beautiful melodies ever written.

freeFall Theatre Celebrates Motown With Chester Gregory In A MOTOWN CELEBRATION

freeFall Theatre Company’s 2023/2024 season opens with an all-new musical revue that celebrates the hits of such legendary artists as The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Jackie Wilson and many others.

Opera Philadelphia Brings Opera And Accessible Performance To LATE NIGHT SNACKS

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FreeFall Theatre Presents AT HOME WITH ETHEL WATERS

freeFall Theatre Company's 2023/2024 season opens with an all-new play with music written by and starring Rose Weaver (freeFall debut) as the one and only Ethel Waters.

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Washington Performing Arts has announce its 2023/24 Season with the theme of Together in Art and Community, running from September 2023 through June 2024 in nine venues across the Washington, D.C., region.

FreeFall Theatre Reveals 2023/2024 Season

Subscriptions and single tickets are now on sale for freeFall's 2023/2024 season. Learn more about the lineup here!

Which Songs Have Appeared in Multiple Broadway Shows?

This month, the reader question was: 'Which songs have appeared in multiple Broadway shows?'

Interview: Sheldon Epps of MY OWN DIRECTIONS: A BLACK MAN'S JOURNEY IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE Recounts the Highs & Lows of His Amazing Career

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As the soundtrack of struggle, the narrative of collective experience and the backbeat of community, the blues in all its different forms is a tradition that lives on with the Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival. Produced by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC) and Presented by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the fifth annual festival takes place September 14-15 at Highmark Stadium (510 W. Station Square Drive).

Capital Repertory Theatre Presents JERSEY BOYS, the Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

JERSEY BOYS, the journey of the Four Seasons’ rise and fall through the eyes of a group of friends, who became the icons of their generation, will open at Capital Repertory Theatre for previews Friday, July 15.

Gay Marshall Returns To Pangea This Month

Actress/singer, Gay Marshall, winner of the 2022 Bistro Award for Outstanding Recording and 2022 MAC nominee for Major Recording, celebrates the genius of Leonard Cohen in Back on Boogie Street at Pangea in New York City on May 24th and 31st and June 4th at 7PM. Marshall released her recording, Back on Boogie Street – Songs of Leonard Cohen, just before Covid lockdown.

Ethel Waters FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Ethel Waters has appeared on Broadway in 13 shows.

Ethel Waters has not appeared in the West End

Ethel Waters has written 1 shows including After Midnight (Composer).

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