| LC control no. | n 84173839 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Vereen, Ben |
| Variant(s) | Middleton, Benjamin Augustus |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a Tony awardee. |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1946-10-10 |
| Place of birth | Laurinburg (N.C.) |
| Affiliation | High School of Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.) Celebrities for a Drug-Free America (Organization) |
| Profession or occupation | Actors Dancers Singers |
| Found in | Data from Gt. Plains Nat. Instr. TV Lib. for Ty's one man band [VR] 1983 (Ben Vereen; dancer) Variety's ww in show business, 1989 (Vereen, Ben; b. Oct. 10, 1946, Miami, FL; singer, actor, dancer) African American National Biography, accessed April 07, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Vereen, Ben; actor; born 10 October 1946 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, United States; graduated from the School of Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. (1965); played Judas in Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1971); played in Pippen and won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical; shared a stage with Barbra Streisand in Funny Lady (1975); played Chicken George in TV miniseries Roots; appeared in Bob Fosse's film All That Jazz; founded Celebrities for a Drug-Free America; appeared in productions of Chicago (1999), Fosse (2001), and Wicked (2005-2006)) Wikipedia, Feb. 19, 2020 (Ben Vereen; b. Benjamin Augustus Middleton; adopted by James and Pauline Vereen in infancy) |
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