PS Classics will release
All the Girls, the new album from Broadway favorites Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert, on Friday, December 25 in digital and streaming formats. CDs will be available starting January 15.
All the Girls premiered as a concert in 2019 and builds on Luker and Wilfert s friendship on and off the stage. It contains songs like Everybody Says Don t, Marry the Man Today, Nowadays, Friendship, For Good, Millwork, and Dear Theodosia, among others. The album features orchestrations by musical director Joseph Thalken, who also penned additional material.
Three-time Tony nominee Luker, who passed away on December 23, appeared in
Fun Home,
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Broadway actress Rebecca Luker dies at 59 after ALS fight
UPI News Service, 12/24/2020
Broadway actress Rebecca Luker has died in New York after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig s disease, her agent said. She was 59.
ADVERTISEMENT The Alabama native starred in the stage productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Nine, Mary Poppins and Fun Home, as well as revivals of The Boys From Syracuse, Show Boat, The Sound of Music and The Music Man during her decades-long career.
The three-time Tony nominee also performed a cabaret act at Manhattan hot spots like Cafe Carlyle and Feinstein s/54 Below.
Three-time Tony Award nominee
Earlier in 2020, she revealed she had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease.
Rebecca made her Broadway debut in 1988 in Phantom of the Opera. She has earned numerous Tony Award nominations over the years including one in 1995 for
Show Boat, and for her work in
The Music Man and
Rebecca is married to fellow Broadway star
Danny Burstein. Danny publicly revealed his Coronavirus battle earlier this year as well and said Rebecca faced symptoms at the time.
Rebecca is survived by
Zachary and
Alexander. Our thoughts are with Rebecca’s family, friends, loved ones, and the Broadway community at this time.
According to
The New York Times, Luker died Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital after announcing in February that she had been diagnosed with ALS late last year. Her death was confirmed by her agent, Sarah Fargo.
Survivors include her second husband, Danny Burstein, like his wife a beloved Broadway performer. The seven-time Tony nominee wrote two columns for
THR this year about his recovery from COVID-19 and how Luker helped him get past the virus.
An operatic soprano, Luker portrayed Magnolia, the daughter who marries a sleazy riverboat gambler, in
Show Boat, which opened on Broadway in 1994; the librarian Marian in
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