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	Leslie Uggams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943 in New York City) is an African American actress and singer, best known for her Tony Award-winning work in Hallelujah, Baby!
		Uggams first started in show business in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on the television series Beulah.
		Since then, she has had a variety show added to her list of credits (The Leslie Uggams Show) as well as one of the lead roles in Roots, as Kizzy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leslie_Uggams (142 words)

	Leslie Uggams, A 'Golden' Sub (washingtonpost.com)
		Uggams, who went into rehearsal yesterday, has less than one week to get Ethel Thayer, the big-hearted wife and mother of Ernest Thompson's family drama, into her bloodstream.
		Uggams, 61, won a Tony Award in 1968 for her performance in "Hallelujah, Baby!," a musical that is being revived this season at Arena Stage.
		The play in which she will now appear, about recrimination and reconciliation in the lives of a retired couple and their resentful daughter, had a modest run on Broadway in 1978 and 1979, but found much broader success as a 1981 movie with Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A43431-2004Sep22.html (613 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Leslie Uggams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uggams was hired to be regular female vocalist on Sing Along With Mitch, an otherwise all-male (and all-white) songfest hosted by Mitch Miller.
		A major star by 1969, Uggams became the first fl female performer to host her own TV series since Hazel Scott in the '50s; alas, The Leslie Uggams Show became the latest in a long list of casualties to its powerhouse competition Bonanza.
		Leslie Uggams' last regular television stint was as cohost of a nighttime audience participation series, Fantasy, in 1983.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/63699/bio.jhtml (305 words)

	Leslie Uggams: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the age of 12, Uggams retired from performing; her absence from the spotlight was relatively brief, however, and three years later she appeared as a vocalist on the TV quiz show Name That Tune.
		In 1968, Uggams was chosen to replace Lena Horne [+] in the lead role in the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!; the performance earned her a Tony Award and culminated her rise to stardom.
		The early 1970s marked a decline in Uggams' fortunes; outside of an appearance in the all-star 1972 film Skyjacked, she enjoyed little of the same success of recent years, and a move from Columbia to Atlantic did little to resuscitate her singing career.
	music.com /person/leslie_uggams/1 (512 words)

	The Daily Times - News - 10/22/2004 - Theater: Golden Pond shimmers with Jones and Uggams
		In a display of trouperism, Uggams spoke to the producer, accepted the role, and was on a train from New York to Washington the next morning with only a week before she had a perform a character who rarely leaves the stage and is pivotal to the story.
		Leslie Uggams has a lifetime of experience, much of it shared with live and television audiences for more than 50 years.
		Like Leslie Uggams, Powell studied acting with some top teachers, including the recently deceased John Stix, whose death was announced on Playbill.com the day Powell and I spoke.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13200973&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18179&rfi=6 (1241 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Leslie Uggams
		James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams appear in a scene from "On Golden Pond" at the Kennedy Center in Washington...
		Singer Leslie Uggams said she thought prospective jurors should get points for knowing which of the five state courthouses they were supposed to report to.
		Leslie Uggams, the future entertainer, is born in New York.
	dramatheatre.surfwax.com /files/Leslie_Uggams_Play.html (1856 words)

	Sarasota, Florida - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall - Broadway on Ice starring Oksana Baiul, Rudy Galindo and Leslie ...
		LESLIE UGGAMS is one of America's most versatile entertainment stars, having conquered the worlds of theater, television and recording.
		She won a Tony Award as best actress in a musical in her Broadway debut, Hallelujah, Baby!, was nominated for her performance in the drama King Hedley II and recently completed a two-year run starring as Muzzy Van Hossmere in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
		On television, Leslie won an Emmy Award for co-hosting the talk show "Fantasy." She was Emmy-nominated as the star of her own variety series "The Leslie Uggams Show" and for her indelible portrayal as Kizzy in the most watched dramatic show in TV history, "Roots," a performance which also earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
	www.vanwezel.org /media/pressRelease.cfm?preID=141 (673 words)

	CBS News \| Jones And Uggams Splash In 'Pond' \| April 15, 2005 12:30:13
		The revival of the play "On Golden Pond" stars James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams as elderly couple Norman and Ethel Thayer enjoying what is perhaps their final summer together at their home in Maine.
		Uggams compares Norman and Ethel's relationship to that of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
		Uggams adds, "We want everybody to come to see the show, because we think the play is a beautiful play.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/15/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main688485.shtml (608 words)

	Singer, actress stars in 'Thunder Knocking on the Door' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The other day, Leslie Uggams was on her way to a rehearsal of her new musical, Thunder Knocking on the Door, when a young man stopped her outside the box office.
		Uggams plays the matriarch of an Alabama family forced to confront a mysterious stranger who sweeps into town for a blues “cuttin' contest” in hopes of winning the clan's most prized possession: two guitars.
		Uggams surveys her own history — one that has echoed the changes in musical tastes — and laughs at how the landscape in entertainment has changed.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2002/06/23/tem_singer_actress_stars.html (767 words)

	Chairs 99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Actress, recording artist, entertainer and 1995 NBTF Lifelong Achievement Award recipient Leslie Uggams is the 1999 National Black Theatre Festival™ Chairperson.
		Leslie made her fortuitous appearance on the CBS-TV series Name That Tune at age 15.
		Leslie has done concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Rhode Island Symphony and performed in The Memorial Day Concert on Washington Mall televised by PBS.
	www.nbtf.org /chairs99.htm (312 words)

	LESLIE UGGAMS Bio
		Raised in the Washington Heights section of New York City, Leslie Uggams made her national television debut at age six on the TV series Beulah, portraying the neice of Ethel Waters.
		Leslie reprised her role in 1989/90 at the Lincoln Center's Vivien Beaumont Theatre on Broadway.
		Off stage, Leslie is a founding member of the BRAVO Chapter/City of Hope-- a charitable organization dedicated to the study, treatment, and eradication of all blood-related diseases, a board member of the Alvin Alley Dance Theatre, and TADA, a children's musical theatre.
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	USATODAY.com - 'Golden Pond' has a glow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The movie is a tough act to follow: James Earl Jones as Norman and Leslie Uggams as Ethel in Ernest Thompson’s Broadway revival.
		Uggams' agility, in contrast, can seem out of sync with her character at times: Even in a drab old-lady wig, the 61-year-old actress is far too beautiful and spry to suggest a woman pushing 70.
		Uggams' enduring vitality — and Jones', for that matter — is helpful, though, in showing us the patience and affection that have kept this couple together for some five decades.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2005-04-07-golden-pond_x.htm (576 words)

	Charles Rapp
		Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress/singer Leslie Uggams comes to the role of Maria Callas in the Theatre Fest Production of Terrence McNally's Master Class in the heels of critical and audience acclaim for her performance in Off-Broadway's Old Settler, for which she just received the prestigious Adelco Award.
		Concurrent with her musical composition and theory studies at The Julliard School, Leslie released the first of 10 albums she was to record for Columbia Records including her first hit single, Morgan.
		Two years later, she had her own musical variety television series on CBS-TV, The Leslie Uggams Show, and a new recording contract with Atlantic Records.
	www.charlesrapp.com /Details.aspx?mId=74 (184 words)

	Tough Pigs Review -- Sesame Street's Blue Christmas
		All of a sudden, Leslie Uggams is the Supreme Commander of Sesame Street; as soon as she gets the slightest whim, everyone else around her follows her every command.
		Leslie: "Oscar certainly does remind you of another Christmas grouch, doesn't he." Maria: "You mean Scrooge." The word "Scrooge" gives Leslie an idea to teach Oscar a lesson.
		Leslie Uggams sits at an upstairs window, staring dreamily at Oscar and singing another inappropriate love song about his lyrical smile.
	www.toughpigs.com /journalbluexmas.htm (2203 words)

	"The Leslie Uggams Show" (1969) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leslie Uggams was one of the finest young entertainers of her era and she deserved to have a great variety series.
		Uggams was immediately thrown up as a sacrificial lamb and this almost ruined her career.
		I feel that one of the things that made it so short lived was the fact that it was seen as a stop gap measure to counteract the Smothers Brother's controversy.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0063922 (300 words)

	Theater News - Feature: The King's Mother - Tony Award-winner Leslie Uggams makes her first non-musical Broadway ...
		When Uggams won the Tony for her first Broadway lead (beating out Brenda Vaccaro, Melina Mercouri, and Patricia Routledge), she already had established herself as a highly popular television singer and recording artist.
		In her early teens, Uggams took a breather from performing to concentrate on school.
		Things started to look up when CBS gave Uggams her own variety hour, but the gesture was countered when the network placed the show in a killer slot opposite Bonanza on Sunday evenings.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/1342 (1425 words)

	Leslie Uggams News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		News about Leslie Uggams continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Leslie Uggams is replacing Diahann Carroll in the Kennedy Center production of Ernest Thompson s On Golden Pond.
		Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams is the latest celeb lined up for a Fynsworth Alley live chat.
	www.topix.net /who/leslie-uggams (107 words)

	On Golden Pond's James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams on Weekend Today March 27 (BroadwayWorld.com)
		James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams, the Tony-winning stars of the new Broadway production of On Golden Pond, will appear in a special joint interview on Weekend Today this Sunday morning, March 27.
		Uggams co-star as the lovable curmudgeon Norman and his spirited wife, Ethel in this heartwarming and hilarious celebration of the everyday struggles and ultimate triumphs of life, love and family.
		Uggams are Linda Powell as Chelsea, Peter Francis James as Bill, Craig Bockhorn as Charlie and Alexander Mitchell as Billy.
	www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=2642 (917 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Broadway veterans enjoy sharing stage 2/20/97
		Entertainers Leslie Uggams and Ben Vereen are a perfect performing pair.
		Uggams said in a phone interview from Hartford, Conn., in between performances of On Broadway!
		Uggams in a raspy voice that's the result of heavy touring since January.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/022197/fea_broadway.BAK1 (348 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An Uggams is a girl named Leslie whose life has miraculously blossomed since as a fifteen year old on the Harry Salter's "Name That Tune" show she thrilled a nationwide TV audience with her rendition of He's Got The Whole World In His Hands.
		A few years later that little girl matured into a star of the first magnitude, and today Leslie literally has the whole world in her hands.
		It started with straight dramatic roles on the TV show "I Spy" and "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." A complete Leslie Uggams appeared for the first time in 1966 when she played the lead, singing, dancing and acting, in "The Boy Friend," the role, which also started Julie Andrews on the road to fame.
	www.leslieuggams.com /Recordings/whats-notes.htm (396 words)

	King Hedley II, a Curtain a CurtainUp review
		The central female there is now a woman in her sixties, Ruby (Leslie Uggams).
		In fact, only Mitchell and Uggams are new to his work, and their work is the least satisfying, perhaps as much a fault of the writing of their roles as their performances.
		Uggams doesn't convey the insight with which the supporting cast acquits itself.
	www.curtainup.com /kinghedleyii.html (718 words)

	On Golden Pond Starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams
		LESLIE UGGAMS (Ethel Thayer) won a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut in Hallelujah, Baby!.
		Leslie's theatre career began at the age of nine (regular Apollo Theater appearances with such legends as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Dinah Washington) and has continued until today with appearances across the country in such productions as Master Class, Play On, Into the Woods, Call Me Madam, The Old Settler and Blue.
		In addition to stage and television, she performs concerts around the country, recently appearing with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Washington Symphony Orchestras and the Memorial Day Concert on the Washington Mall, which was televised by PBS.
	www.goldenpondonbroadway.com /cast.htm (1043 words)

	Leslie Uggams -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uggams first started in show business in 1950, playing the niece of (United States actress and singer (1896-1977)) Ethel Waters on the television series (Click link for more info and facts about Beulah) Beulah.
		Since then, she has had a variety show added to her list of credits (The Leslie Uggams Show) as well as one of the lead roles in (The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage) Roots, as Kizzy.
		In 1996, she played the role of Rose Keefer on (Click link for more info and facts about All My Children) All My Children.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leslie_uggams.htm (171 words)

	Playbill News: Thoroughly Modern Millie Star to Chat Live Jan. 25
		Uggams, who is currently starring as Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie, will chat with her fans Sunday, Jan. 25.
		Leslie Uggams portrays Muzzy Van Hossmer in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Marquis Theatre.
		Uggams' latest recording — "On My Way to You: The Songs of Alan & Marilyn Bergman" — is currently available in stores on the Fynsworth Alley label.
	web.playbill.com /news/article/83930.html (441 words)

	Theater News - Theater News: Uggams Replaces Carroll in On Golden Pond at Kennedy Center -
		Although she is expected to recover, her physicians insisted that she immediately limit her movements and return home to Los Angeles for treatment and rest.
		Uggams will play opposite James Earl Jones in the Kennedy Center's On Golden Pond, under the direction of Leonard Foglia.
		In addition to Jones and Uggams, the cast of On Golden Pond consists of Linda Powell, Peter Francis James, Craig Bockhorn, and Alexander Mitchell.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=5151 (441 words)

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		It was announced today that the upcoming Broadway production of On Golden Pond, starring the legendary James Earl Jones and Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams, has been nominated for 4 Helen Hayes Awards, the prestigious awards that pay tribute to excellence in professional theater in Washington, DC.
		I'm especially grateful to The Kennedy Center for their support of On Golden Pond." Finn produced the premiere at The Kennedy Center and is joined by Arlene Scanlan and Stuart Thompson in New York.
		Delivering performances that won critical acclaim, James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams co-star as the lovable curmudgeon Norman and his spirited wife, Ethel - a couple whose final summer at their lakeside cottage in Maine is interrupted by the arrival of their estranged daughter and her fiancé's young son.
	www.broadwayworld.com /printcolumn.cfm?id=2379 (1162 words)

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