Thursday, August 13, 2020

Stage actress Nikki Renée Daniels

Nikki Renée Daniels is a leading star on Broadway.


Her best known roles include Nabulungi in satirical musical The Book Of Mormon and as Clara in a 2012 revival of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess.  She's also done musical theater in the heartland, having played Angelica Schuyler in a Chicago production of Hamilton.  She seems to have a knack for playing famous eighteenth-century women - she also played Martha Jefferson in a production of 1776.  

More recently, Ms. Daniels has been playing Jenny in a 2020 revival of Company, the George Furth / Stephen Sondheim musical about relationships, which first premiered on Broadway in 1970.  Didn't hear about the revival?  That's because it was in previews when the COVID-19 pandemic closed Broadway until, at this writing, January 3, 2021.  Hopefully the show will make it onto the stage by then. A lot of shows slated to open this past spring won't. :-(


Fun fact: Ms. Daniels is married to Jeff Kready, another Broadway performer.   

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