Gretha boston biography
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Gretha boston biography
Gretha Boston
Actress | Class of 1997
Gretha Denise Boston is a celebrated mezzo-soprano and award-winning actress who has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the United States and abroad, and she won the coveted Tony Award in 1995 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Queenie in the Broadway revival of Showboat; she was the first Arkansan to receive that honor.
The same role earned Boston the Theatre World Award as Outstanding Debut Artist. She was also nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production for the 2000–01 season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for her performance in It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues.
Gretha Boston was born in Crossett, Arkansas, on April 18, 1959, the eldest of seven children of Delores Tucker Boston and Curtis Joe Boston, Sr.
Her early musical training was in the Gates Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and in her high school choir, where she was enco