Priscilla Lopez
| Priscilla Lopez | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 26, 1948 Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Spouse(s) | Vincent Fanuele |
| Children | 2 |
Priscilla Lopez (born February 26, 1948) is an American singer, dancer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for creating the role of Diana Morales in A Chorus Line.
Lopez was born in the Bronx, New York to Francisco Lopez, a hotel banquet foreman and Laura (née Candelaria), who had moved to New York from their native Puerto Rico. She has had the distinction of appearing in two Broadway landmarks: one of its greatest hits, the highly acclaimed, long-running A Chorus Line, and, as a teenager, in one of its biggest flops, the infamous musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, which closed before opening night.
Lopez graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts, where she majored in drama; her experiences as a drama student are played out in the musical A Chorus Line. Had Tiffany's survived, it would have marked her debut on the Great White Way, but the production was plagued with so many problems that its creative team deemed it impossible to fix. From there she moved on to Henry, Sweet Henry, which lasted only two months at the end of 1967, when she was 19 years old. Her luck was no better the following year, when Her First Roman lasted a mere two weeks.
Lopez finally achieved critical and popular success as a replacement in two shows, Stephen Sondheim's Company (1970), followed by the 1972 hit Pippin in 1974 (taking over the role of Fastrada from original performer Leland Palmer). Two years later, she was invited by director and choreographer Michael Bennett to participate in a series of tape-recorded group therapy-style sessions in which chorus boys and girls - AKA "Gypsies" - bared their souls and discussed their lives, dreams, and frustrations. From this emerged A Chorus Line (1975), and Lopez was invited to join the cast portraying Diana Morales, a character patterned very much after herself. She introduced the hit song "What I Did for Love", and sang "Nothing", a song about her disastrously unsupportive drama class.
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