Linda Hopkins, one of Broadway’s great gospel and blues voices, died Monday in Milwaukee at 92. Perhaps best known for her popular one-woman show Me and Bessie – a 1970s tribute to blues singer Bessie Smith – and the 1980s revue Black and Blue, Hopkins won a Tony Award in 1972 for her show-stealing performance in the Broadway musical Inner City. Hopkins Broadway success in Black and Blue, in whic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PM on April 12, 2017