{"id":275875,"date":"2021-06-15T23:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/karla-burns-tony-nominated-show-boat-star-dead-at-66\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:26:30","slug":"karla-burns-tony-nominated-show-boat-star-dead-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/karla-burns-tony-nominated-show-boat-star-dead-at-66\/","title":{"rendered":"#Karla Burns, Tony-nominated \u2018Show Boat\u2019 star, dead at 66"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Karla Burns, Tony-nominated \u2018Show Boat\u2019 star, dead at 66<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Karla Burns, best known for her role as Queenie in the musical \u201cShow Boat,\u201d<\/a> has died. She was 66.<\/p>\n

Burns\u2019 sister, Donna Burns-Revels, confirmed her June 4 passing in Wichita, Kansas, following a series<\/a> of strokes, according to the New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Burns, a Wichita native, began pursuing musical theater while enrolled at Wichita State University. She first clinched her career-defining role in \u201cShow Boat\u201d when she auditioned for a regional Wichita production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II\u2019s 1927 musical, which earned her an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination.<\/p>\n

She would go on to reprise Queenie at the Lyric Theater in Oklahoma City and for dinner theater productions in Ohio. Eventually, Burns found herself in New York, auditioning amongst hundreds of other women for a national tour.<\/p>\n

After hitting the road for months, by 1983 she found her way back to New York, where she portrayed Queenie in a Broadway revival at the Gershwin Theater. Her portrayal garnered her a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, as well as a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.<\/p>\n

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Karla Burns, Maureen Lipman and Jeremy Zimmerman attend the Olivier Awards Summer Party.<\/figcaption>
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Less than a decade later, in 1991, Burns reprised the role once more for a West End production with the Royal Shakespeare Company, for which she earned an Olivier Award for Supporting Actress in a Musical. She was the first black performer to receive an Olivier.<\/p>\n

Though especially well-regarded for \u201cShow Boat,\u201d Burns additionally app<\/a>eared in a 1987 Broadway production of \u201cThe Comedy of Errors,\u201d as well as a Shakespeare in the Park version of it opposite Marisa Tomei. Her other theater projects included \u201cSouth Pacific\u201d (1986) and \u201cMeasure for Measure\u201d (1993), amongst others.<\/p>\n

Burns toured the country to portray \u201cGone With the Wind\u201d actress Hattie McDaniel in the one-woman musical \u201cHi-Hat Hattie,\u201d which documented the Oscar winner\u2019s life. The portrayal of McDaniel is particularly significant, as she played Queenie in the 1936 film production of \u201cShow Boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2007, Burns received an emergency thyroidectomy due to a large growth on her neck, which claimed her voice and sidelined her career. She underwent therapy to regain the use of her vocal cords and was able to perform onstage once again in 2011.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Karla Burns, Tony-nominated \u2018Show Boat\u2019 star, dead at 66” Karla Burns, best known for her role as Queenie in the musical \u201cShow Boat,\u201d has died. She was 66. Burns\u2019 sister, Donna Burns-Revels, confirmed her June 4 passing in Wichita, Kansas, following a series of strokes, according to the New York Times. Burns, a Wichita native,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/karla-burns-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[109416,29467,70255,5200,75966],"class_list":["post-275875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-15-21","tag-broadway","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-obituaries","tag-tony-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}