Broadway star Lillias White

[@donnabaardsen5372]

What an incredible voice! She absolutely doesn't look 71.

[@recherche4528]

Can we just stop using the terminology “she doesn’t look..” ? Saying women don’t look their age or look good for their age is so yesterday. 🙄

[@jeffreysalley]

I was shocked when they said. 71. I've only seen her on different KZbin videos so in my mind she's frozen in time.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

@@recherche4528 Oh please, grow up, and go woke someplace else. Speak for yourself, none of this "we..." business. Any person who looks so terrific at that age absolutely deserves having that said about them. Looking fabulous is never "... yesterday." We have to wonder how YOU look, since it bothers you so much.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

@@jeffreysalley Yes, absolutely!

[@Triforce829]

I remember seeing Lillias White when I was 3 years old in 1993 on Sesame Street at my grandmother’s house!!! I owe my life as a musician to her because something about the quality of her singing made me devote my life to music at age 3!!! I got my start because of you Lillias, I hope to meet you and thank you one day!!!

[@zeepickens9049]

❤❤❤

[@pam0626]

Thank you, CBS Sunday, for spotlighting Broadway actors.

[@corneliuswhite5139]

What a welcome tribute for someone who deserves her flowers!!

[@BKDAYZ]

Lovvvvvvve that this black, legendary performer is getting her flowers. Go Lillias!!

[@thebrothaj]

lillias white is a TREASURE!

[@PatrickVerst]

Lillias White is a national treasure

[@dantecandelora6945]

She’s Great! She voiced one of the muses from The Disney animated feature Hercules and she played Lillian the teacher on Sesame Street from 1989 to 1993!

[@philipciaffa6643]

Great Interview! A Great Lady! An impressive retrospective of her origins, career and outlook. Not an easy path, but she navigated successfully with a support system, determination and incredible talent.

[@jeffreysalley]

Wow. Well said!

[@scottsmith2505]

We saw Hadestown on Christmas Eve. Lillias White was Fantastic! So glad she was part of the cast.

[@DanCrowleyNYC]

This is lovely! Lillias is amazing (and amazing in Hadestown), and Mo is such a great interviewer and I have loved serving him drinks down at Duplex over the years!

[@cathyspyrie907]

I am so grateful that you continue to shine light - Lillias White - amazing lady. very glad I found her. Her mother working for Billie? Billie has been my fave since age 15.

[@DRUOPS]

If you haven't already, check out her "Bali Ha'i" from the Carnegie Hall concert version of "South Pacific" with Reba McEntire. Absolute perfection.

[@saxyben81]

I have to be honest, I was skeptical about a female playing Hermes. Then here on KZbin I saw her first night and she embodied Ms. Hermes and rocked it! I am so happy she is in the role. She brings a new take on the role and it was needed. Would love to see her in Hadestown! Or anything for that matter. So talented!! ❤❤❤

[@janices6140]

Ms Lillias White, you inspire me. Wishing you joy! Your talent and hard work earns you all the accolades you're receiving.

[@tomwestfld392]

Incredible talent and so sweet, kind and caring to a friend I know on Broadway.....and imagine he isn't the only one she looks out for.

[@cde2615]

I've known Lillias for decades. She's the REAL DEAL. Immensely talented (#duh), gloriously in the moment, caring, kind . . . and divine.

[@adelaferreira4575]

Wow she doesn’t even look fifty , she looks beautiful and her voice sounds amazing ,many blessed years ahead of happy singing !

[@biancang158]

Loved Her ever since I was a kid and one of my favorite childhood actress lilias white from Disney’s Hercules too 💕😊beautiful lady

[@nelsonvega3444]

I just found her recently and I’m sorry I missed all her performances…I love her everything..she reminds me of a great woman I worked with…God bless her ..

[@cherylrleigh1912]

Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is particularly known for her performances in Broadway musicals. In 1989 she won an Obie Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway musical Romance in Hard Times. In 1997 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for portraying Sonja in Cy Coleman's The Life. She was nominated for a Tony Award again in 2010 for her work as Funmilayo in Fela Kuti's Fela!. White is also known for her roles as Calliope in the Disney film Hercules (1997), and its animated series of the same name; Evette in the film Pieces of April (2003); and as Fat Annie in the Netflix series The Get Down. She has also starred as Bloody Mary in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific on PBS' Great Performances with Reba McEntire, and in the PBS documentary In Performance at the White House. She is an active cabaret singer and has appeared in concert with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and at Carnegie Hall. Source Wikipedia

[@maryannkochanski5777]

Incredible woman.

[@liliana1lfr]

1:44 Don't get in the way of my joy!!

[@troygaspard6732]

I loved Hades Town.

[@nathanrusso8047]

Fantastic voice. So much joy and fun she she sings

[@meloneymoore8856]

She is my true hero!

[@ralphlampkinjr.7325]

A fascinating interview

[@jae6506]

Living Legend👏🏽👏🏽🫶🏽

[@nlp6082]

Great story of a true talent ❤

[@LizaFan]

National treasure.

[@davept2580]

"We are the Muses....". That's all it takes ;)

[@thekaerichtexas]

She's having a big resurgence and good for her. I wish I was in New york to see hadestown but alas I live in texas

[@colleenkennedy1407]

Such a lovely lady!

[@khamikins]

love lillias!

[@jeanashchuchinov6593]

Wish I could go see her

[@Angela-pi6zc]

Thank you for introducing me to Ms. White!

[@maryhurst4663]

Wow!

[@MercuryBubble]

I loooooove her!

[@jeffreysalley]

Her version of dont rain on my parade is the best ever! Better than Streisand. There. I said it!

[@LizaFan]

I live for the audible gasp from the crowd 1:37

[@rileysummers484]

And you are 100% correct

[@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t]

THATS MY GIRL FROM SESAME STREET! SHE BE BLOWING, NIECE!!!!!

[@herbstencil]

Lovely mi amigo... ❤

[@jessicabw]

Amazing story!!! ❤

[@deepnation10009]

I love her

[@alyh3721]

I'm in love :)

[@KlyBell]

"...and the arts said, "Not you.""

[@vancemars1174]

3:15 YOU BETTER SAY THAT SHT AGAIN LILLIAS😭😭

[@janicescott-pair97]

God wants our light to shine, no matter how old we are.

[@zeepickens9049]

❤👑❤

[@SamSung-ww3rp]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@dadrienedavis]

My birthday twin ❤️♋️💪🏾

[@doriancoreyscloset421]

*THE 0 TO HERO HERCULES LADY!*

[@Dimi374]

The Wiz as Dorothy!!

[@tcrump212IsLmbrJck_t]

LOL NOT HIGH COTTON, CHILE... I LIIIIVE!

[@wootang28]

Did she ever apologize for mistakenly yelling at a hard of hearing audience member?

[@nicoletrudell2065]

Yes. For those who don't know, she thought someone was rudely using their phone during the show and detracting from other audience members' experience, as actors weren't briefed about phones being used as captioning devices for hard-of-hearing patrons. That's honestly on the production for not explaining this to casts, because most of the time it is simply just someone being rude by using their phones to text etc.

[@DNBursky]

@@nicoletrudell2065 I don't think she apologized the production/PR did. Too much ego isn't good.

[@Eleutherios1701]

Actually she did not apologize at all. I’ll wait while you try to find proof heh cause it doesn’t exist. That’s why the uproar was so bad over it.

[@samarijohnson1595]

I love how y’all are choosing to be angry with her. BUT, actively STILL applauding Patti when she did it. And the person she did it to was a literal JOURNALIST/PHOTOGRAPHER!

[@samarijohnson1595]

And FYI, Lillias did give a public apology. In which, you’d know about if you did a quick Google search. Your racism is showing and it isn’t cute whatsoever. You chose to come to a video showing love to a wonderful performer. And rather than celebrate her, you spew hate. It’s uncalled for and unbecoming. Do better please.

[@ElizaHamilton1780]

So why hasn’t she apologized to that Deaf woman who was using the theater’s in-house device for the hearing impaired? A device THAT WAS NOT A PHONE.

[@ElizaHamilton1780]

Let’s get blunt about this. Lilias ain’t Patti LuPone. And she still owes that Deaf woman an apology.

[@Resdue007]

How long is this show on broadway?

[@madulaoblongata1903]

I found Hadestown insipid. Boring. What has Broadway devolved into?