PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: LaChanze
LaChanze - Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and recent star of The Wiz - fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
- Full given name: Rhonda LaChanze Sapp
- Hometown: Bridgeport, CT
- Audition song: "Heatwave" by Martha and the Vandellas (up tempo); "Inseparable" by Natalie Cole (slow)
- Special skills: Tap dancing
- First Broadway show ever saw: Chicago
- If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? Jesus Christ Superstar
- Most played song on your iPod: "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" by Incognito
- Web obsession: Facebook
- Last book you read: "A Perfectly Good Family" by Lionel Shriver
- Must-see TV show: "True Blood" on HBO
- Last good movie you saw: "Slumdog Millionaire"
- Favorite board game: Scrabble
- Pop culture guilty pleasure: Watching Beyoncé do anything!
- First stage kiss: In Once on this Island with Jerry Dixon
- Favorite post-show meal: Steak & potatoes
- How you got your Equity card: In the production of Uptown Is Hot! just out of college
- Worst onstage mishap: I caught the Holy Spirit while doing a gospel number on stage, and my wig flew into the audience.
- Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?: A school teacher and a prisoner on "SVU"
- Worst costume ever: My costume as Marta in Company
- Pet's name: A cat named William
- Favorite junk food: Chocolate covered almonds
- Who would play you in the movie? Kimberly Elise
- Worst job you ever had: Selling cemetery plots as a summer job
- TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: "The Cosby Show"
- Leading lady role you've been dying to play: Evita
- What other single-named stars would you like to work with?: Prince