The performer and producer Jennifer Hudson has joined the elite group of EGOT winners along with her victory on the Tony awards in New York on Sunday evening.
Referred to as US leisure’s grand slam, the illustrious acronym EGOT signifies a recipient of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Hudson obtained her Tony as one of many producers of A Unusual Loop, which was named finest musical on the ceremony at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. A Unusual Loop obtained the best variety of nominations at this 12 months’s awards, with 11, and in addition received finest e-book of a musical for Michael R Jackson who has already obtained the Pulitzer prize for his meta-musical a few black queer author who's writing a musical a few black queer author. In a five-star evaluate, the Guardian critic Gloria Oladipo referred to as it an “uproarious and crushing” account of 1 man’s seek for himself.
Hudson is the seventeenth particular person to realize EGOT standing and, on the age of 40, the third youngest to take action. The newest winners embody Alan Menken, John Legend, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Robert Lopez, the songwriter whose hits embody Frozen and who's the one particular person to realize the standing twice.
Hudson received one of the best supporting actress Oscar in 2007 for her debut film position as Effie White in Dreamgirls, an adaptation of the Broadway musical. Two years later, she received finest R&B album on the Grammy awards for her eponymous debut studio album. A second Grammy got here in 2017 as one of many principal Broadway solid members in The Shade Purple, which received finest musical theatre album. She obtained a Daytime Emmy award final 12 months as a producer on the brief animation Baba Yaga.
A Unusual Loop has greater than 40 producers together with Alan Cumming, Ilana Glazer and Mindy Kaling.
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