Mabel King
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Emerging from a gospel and nightclub singing background cultivated in Harlem after a Charleston childhood, she entered acting in her mid-thirties with a touring production of Porgy and Bess in 1966. A Broadway stint as Ernestina in Hello, Dolly! preceded her breakthrough as Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the all-African-American musical The Wiz, a performance that earned a Drama Desk A…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
