For the past decade, Saycon Sengbloh has starred
in a string of glitzy Broadway musicals, including 'Holler If Ya Hear
Me,' 'Motown The Musical,' 'Hair,' 'Fela,' 'The Color Purple,' 'Wicked'
and 'AIDA.' With her soaring vocal prowess and voluptuous brown skin
beauty, the Atlanta native has successfully carved out a niche for
herself among the new generation of theater dynamos.
But it was her role in the enthrallingly intense
play 'Eclipsed' — shedding light some of the atrocities the Liberian
civil war inflicted on its women — where she found her greatest joy this
fall.
And after rave reviews and a sold-out run at The
Public Theater, groundbreaking Broadway producers Stephen C. Byrd and
Alia Jones-Harvey of Front Row Productions will present the drama on
Broadway at John Golden Theatre starting in February.
"Honestly, there are some roles that I go in for
and I say, 'Oh my God, there's XYZ amount of people auditioning for
this and then for some roles, I don't even worry about it, I just do my
thing and prepare myself for an opportunity of a lifetime—and this is
definitely an opportunity of a lifetime," she told NBCBLK.
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