27 virtually sprinted back onto the stage as the audience and her castmates cheered and hooted, holding her arms in the sky like a marathon runner snapping the finish-line tape. “That night was like the most fun I’ve had in a long time.”Ī beaming Kouatchou at the curtain call on Oct. “I put so much pressure on myself up until then that that day I was like, ‘You know what? I’m just going to forget about it and live my best life up there,’” she says. The soprano late last month made her Broadway debut as Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera,” becoming the first Black woman in the role in the show’s 33-year history in New York. She stuck with it and has now made Broadway history. NEW YORK - Rising stage star Emilie Kouatchou came close to quitting musical theater during the pandemic shutdown, worried about the future.
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