In 1968, in the midst of a long career on Broadway — often playing maids, she noted — LeNoire founded Amas Musical Theater, partly to promote multiethnic casting. Amas would nurture some of the hits of a new era for Black musical theater, including “Mama, I Want to Sing!” and “Bubbling Brown Sugar.”


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