With a win for “A Strange Loop” in one of the best new musical class, Jennifer Hudson, one of the present’s co-producers, joins a choose group of individuals who have gained an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
The singer and actress was added as a producer of the Michael R. Jackson present as it transitioned to Broadway. Other celebrities listed as producers embody RuPaul Charles, Don Cheadle, Mindy Kaling, Billy Porter and Alan Cumming.
“This brilliant, funny masterpiece exposes the heart and soul of a young artist struggling with his desires, identity and instincts he both loves and hates,” Hudson mentioned on the awards present Sunday whereas introducing a efficiency of the musical.
Hudson gained an Oscar in 2007 for her function in “Dreamgirls” and two Grammys — one for finest R&B album and one other for the solid album of “The Color Purple.” An interactive animated brief that she was an govt producer on, “Baba Yaga,” gained a Daytime Emmy Award.
Hudson, who shot to fame in 2004 as a contestant on “American Idol” and starred within the 2015 Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” is the newest addition to a brief record of EGOTs that features Rita Moreno, John Legend, Audrey Hepburn and Whoopi Goldberg.
