LaChanze
Stage

LaChanze

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Year	Title	Role	Location	Notes

1985	Uptown... It's Hot!	Tap Dancer	Tropicana Hotel

1986	Broadway	Broadway debut

1987	Dreamgirls	Ensemble	Broadway	(u/s Deena Jones, Michelle Morris)

1990	Once On This Island	Ti Moune	Off-Broadway	Playwrights Horizons

1990–91	Broadway

1995	Out of This World	Chloe	New York City Center Encores!

Company	Marta	Broadway

1996	Comfortable Shoes	Performer	Paper Mill Playhouse

1997	Ragtime	Sarah	Los Angeles

1999	The Vagina Monologues	Performer	Off-Broadway

1999–2000	Ragtime	Sarah	Broadway	Replacement

2000	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin	Viveca	Off-Broadway	Playwrights Horizons

2002	Funny Girl	Fanny Brice	New York	New York Actor's Benefit Fund Concert

Once On This Island	Ti Moune	Broadway reunion concert

2004	The Color Purple	Celie	Alliance Theatre	Out-of-town tryout

Baby	Pam	Paper Mill Playhouse

2005	Dessa Rose	Dessa Rose	Off-Broadway

2005–06	The Color Purple	Celie	Broadway

N/A	Spunk	Performer	Regional

2009	Inked Baby	Performer	Off-Broadway

The Wiz	Glinda	New York City Center Encores!

N/A	From the Mississippi Delta	Performer	Regional

2012	Handel's Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise	Performer	National tour

2013	If/Then	Kate	National Theatre (Washington, D.C.)	Out-of-town tryout

2014–15	Broadway

2015–16	National tour

2016	Cabin in the Sky	Wanda	New York City Center Encores!

2017	Summer: The Donna Summer Musical	Diva Donna/Mary Gaines	La Jolla Playhouse	Out-of-town tryout

2018	Broadway

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LaChanze played Kate in If/Then on Broadway in 2014-15.

final_sentence: LaChanze played Kate in If/Then on Broadway in 2014-15.