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May 12, 2004 · May 12, 2004. Virginia Capers, an actress and singer who won a Tony Award in 1974 for her role in ''Raisin,'' the musical version of ''A Raisin in the Sun,'' died on Thursday in Los Angeles....
May 11, 2004 · May 11, 2004 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Virginia Capers, who won a Tony award in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in the original version of the musical “Raisin,” has died. She was...
May 12, 2004 · Virginia Capers. Tony-winning thesp. By Alys Marshall. Virginia Capers, who won a Tony for her performance as the mother in the musical “Raisin,” died May 6 in Los Angeles of pneumonia. She...
May 6, 2004 · Eliza "Virginia" Capers (September 22, 1925 – May 6, 2004) was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun.
May 6, 2004 · Award-winning African-American actress and singer Virginia Capers, (b. Sumter, SC, September 22, 1925; d. Los Angeles, May 6, 2004) appeared in nearly fifty Hollywood films, both dramas and comedies, and an even greater number of television episodes over her long career.
May 6, 2004 · Virginia Capers was a Tony-Award-winning stage actress and singer best known for her performances in the Broadway musicals "Saratoga" and "Raisin" (based on the play "A Raisin in the Sun"). From the 1960s until 2002, Capers guest starred on numerous television shows and in several feature films...
Feb 19, 2021 · Born in 1925, Virginia Capers is known for her Tony-winning performance as Lena Younger in 1974's Raisin, Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg's musical based on the play A Raisin in the Sun...
