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Bowie State student moonwalks away with Tony Award for portrayal of Michael Jackson
“MJ” represents the 22-year-old Frost’s Broadway debut. The Fort Washington, Maryland, native thanked his mother and father and sang throughout his acceptance speech.
NEW YORK — Bowie State scholar and Maryland native Myles Frost has moonwalked away with the award for finest lead actor in a musical for enjoying Michael Jackson and turns into the youngest solo winner in that class.
“MJ” represents the 22-year-old Frost’s Broadway debut as he performs Jackson with a excessive, whispery voice, a Woman Diana-like coquettishness and a fierce embrace of Jackson’s iconic dancing and singing model, proper right down to the rhythmic respiration and swiveling head.
Frost thanked his mother and father and sang throughout his acceptance speech.
Frost was raised by his mom in Fort Washington, Maryland. After highschool, he put theater apart to pursue a profession in music. He attended Belmont College in Nashville for 2 years to main in audio engineering. He transferred to Bowie State College in Maryland for his remaining two years.
The bio musical is filled with the King of Pop’s greatest hits, together with “ABC,” “Black or White,” “Blame it on the Boogie,” “Unhealthy,” “Billie Jean,” “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “I’ll Be There.”
Frost beat Billy Crystal in “Mr. Saturday Evening,” Hugh Jackman from “The Music Man,” Rob McClure in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and Jaquel Spivey in “A Unusual Loop.” Frost unseated Ben Platt because the youngest performer to win finest main man in a musical on his personal for “Pricey Evan Hansen.” (Three younger males gained for enjoying Billy Elliot in 2009).
A number of the award present highlights included the huge solid of “The Music Man” filling the huge Radio Metropolis stage with “Seventy-Six Trombones,” in addition to Prince Jackson and Paris Jackson introducing the present about their father earlier than the “MJ” solid danced to an lively “Easy Felony.” Billy Crystal taught the gang “Yiddish scatting.”
Many acceptance speeches thanked the audiences for braving spikes in COVID-19 to come back to see reveals, and Marsha Homosexual Harden cheered 150 security officers invited as friends to the Tonys.
