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Micki Grant

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NIKI - Every Summertime (Visualizer)

 

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Joe Worker (Micki Grant)

 

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Micki Grant sings Thank Heaven for You from DON'T BOTHER ME, I CAN'T COPE at York Theatre

 

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How Did Micki Grant Die? American Dinger, Actress, Writer and Composer Dies at 80

 

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Micki Grant and Cast sing Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope

Micki Grant is an American singer (soprano), actress, writer and composer. She performed in Having Our Say, Tambourines to Glory and Jericho-Jim Crow, The Gingham Dog, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope and has received three Tony Award nominations for her writing. In the early 1960s, she appeared off-Broadway in Jean Genet's "The Blacks", and in "Brecht on Brecht", in which she sang "Pirate Jenny". In 1964, Grant appeared as 'Ella Hammer' in Howard da Silva's off-Broadway revival of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, opposite Jerry Orbach and Rita Gardner. In 1965, Micki Grant became one of the first African-American cast members of a daytime soap opera, when she played the role of legal secretary Peggy Harris Nolan on NBC's Another World. She later appeared on ABC's The Edge of Night, replacing Billie Allen as Ada Chandler.
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