Three-time Tony nominee Rebecca Luker died Wednesday after decades of starring in some of Broadways best-known musicals, her agent told The New York Times . She was 59.
Luker tweeted in February that she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as A.L.S. and Lou Gehrigs disease, vowing to fight and go forward. Lukers husband, fellow stage actor Danny Burstein, revealed in the summer that both he and Luker contracted COVID-19, leaving him hospitalized for several days and then ultimately left to care for Luker alone.
Luker embodied the essence of the Broadway musical ingnue, The Times wrote.
Rebecca Luker was one of the most beautiful voices on Broadway and a lovely person, actor Bernadette Peters wrote on Twitter .
Rebecca Luker was one of the most beautiful voices on Broadway and a lovely person ,,We are all devastated for Danny and for ourselves,,we will never get to witness her talents on stage again RIP Dear Dear Girl pic.twitter.com/6qSKhEZZ2c
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The Alabama native made her Broadway debut as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera serving first as an understudy for Sarah Brightman before eventually assuming the lead. Luker left the show in 1991.
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In 1995, she received her first Tony nod as Magnolia Hawks in a revival of Show Boat and followed that with a 2000 nomination for playing Marian Paroo in a revival of The Music Man and one in 2007 as Winifred Banks in the original cast of the Mary Poppins musical.
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