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Ann Duquesnay

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ActorOn stage 19842006

Ann Duquesnay is an American musical theatre singer/actress, composer and lyricist. She is best known for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk, which earned her a Tony Award and Grammy Award nomination.

On stage 5 productions, 22 years

1984 The Wiz Lunt Fontanne Theatre · Revival · directed by Geoffrey Holder 13 perf.
1992 Jelly’s Last Jam Virginia Theatre · Original · directed by George C. Wolfe 569 perf.
1996 Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by George C. Wolfe 1,135 perf.
1999 It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Donald McKayle 284 perf.
2006 Hot Feet Hilton Theatre · Original · directed by Maurice Hines 97 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once2 names

Savion Glover 2 productions
Keith David 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

Also credited on1 work

Jelly’s Last Jam

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • Slavery ended. “Panhandlers used their hands as pans,” went a lyric which may have come from any of the three lyricists: Gaines, Wolfe, or Ann Duquesnay. (She, incidentally, appeared in the show and won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony.)ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Cast: Gregory Hines, Keith David, Savion Glover, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Tonya Pinkins, Mary Bond Davis, Ann Duquesnay, Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Allison Williamsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Savion Glover, Vincent Bingham, Jared Crawford, Ann Duquesnay, Dule Hill, Raymond King, Jimmy Tate, Baakari Wilder, Jeffrey Wrightebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Mesha Millington, Tommy Hollis, Pamela Isaacs, Raquel Herring, Marc Joseph, Amir Williams, Ann Duquesnay in "Betsy Brown"theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt
  • CAST Chimney Man.Keith David The Hunnies.Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope, Allison M. Williams The Crowd.Ken Ard, Adrian Bailey, Sherry D. Boone, Brenda B. Braxton, Mary Bond Davis, Ralph Deaton, Melissa Haizlip, Cee-Cee Harshaw, Ted L. Levy, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Gil Pritchett III, Michele M. Robinson Jelly Ro…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1991-1992 season, v. 48 (Willis).txt
  • BRING IN ‘DA NOISE BRING IN ‘DA FUNK Conceived/Directed by George C. Wolfe; Choreography, Savion Glover; Based on an idea by Mr. Glover and Mr. Wolfe; Music, Daryl Waters, Zane Mark, Ann Duquesnay; Book, Reg E. Gaines; Sets, Riccardo Hernandez; Costumes, Paul Tazewell; Lighting, Jules Fisher, Peggy Eisenhauer; Musical Supervision/Orchestr…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

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  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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