AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Adrienne Warren, Broadway baby
Associated PressNEW YORK — Adrienne Warren had studiously avoided ever touching a Tony Award her entire stage career. Warren won the best leading actress Tony for being a one-woman fireball of energy and exhilaration while portraying Tina Turner in the Broadway musical celebrating the rock pioneer’s life. She flew to Mississippi to play civil rights catalyst Mamie Till-Mobley — whose son Emmett Till was brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South — in the ABC limited series “Women of the Movement.” She lost herself in the softer character. “I’m interested in the humanization of our heroes.” Warren also put her energy into the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, fighting for change. “What we need is for white people to actually understand that they have to change.” When “Tina” started planning its restart back on Broadway, Warren had to switch back.
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