Broadway Star Rebecca Luker Dies At Age 59

3-time Tony nominee Rebecca Luker died Wednesday soon after decades of starring in some of Broadway’s greatest-recognized musicals, her agent informed The New York Periods. She was 59.

Luker tweeted in February that she experienced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as A.L.S. and Lou Gehrig’s sickness, vowing “to combat and go forward.” Luker’s partner, fellow stage actor Danny Burstein, revealed in the summer months that each he and Luker contracted COVID-19, leaving him hospitalized for various times and then finally remaining to care for Luker by itself.

Luker “embodied the essence of the Broadway musical ingénue,” The Periods wrote.

“Rebecca Luker was just one of the most wonderful voices on Broadway and a lovely man or woman,” actor Bernadette Peters wrote on Twitter.

The Alabama indigenous produced her Broadway debut as Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera” serving to start with as an understudy for Sarah Brightman just before at some point assuming the direct. Luker left the clearly show in 1991.

In 1995, she gained her first Tony nod as Magnolia Hawks in a revival of “Show Boat” and adopted that with a 2000 nomination for enjoying Marian Paroo in a revival of “The Tunes Man” and just one in 2007 as Winifred Banks in the original forged of the “Mary Poppins” musical.

Luker also appeared on TV’s “Law & Buy: Particular Victims Device,” “The Very good Wife” and “Boardwalk Empire,” in accordance to IMDb.

“The Sound of Music” star’s very last stage visual appearance was 2019 participating in the preacher’s spouse in “Footloose” at the Kennedy Centre, Vulture pointed out.