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Tony-nominated Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59
Read full article: Tony-nominated Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59FILE - Rebecca Luker, left, and her husband Danny Burstein arrive at the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York on June 9, 2019. Luker, 59, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, said Sarah Fargo, her agent. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ Soprano Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday. Her death was announced by her husband, veteran Broadway actor Danny Burstein, who said in a statement โour family is devastated. Luker made her Broadway debut in 1988 in โThe Phantom of the Operaโ first as an understudy to Sarah Brightman and then playing Christine opposite the legendary Michael Crawford.