Tony-Nominated Broadway Star Rebecca Luker Dies At 59

Tony-Nominated Broadway Star Rebecca Luker Dies At 59
Rebecca Luker, background, leads a performance of songs from "Mary Poppins" at the 61st Annual Tony Awards in New York on June 10, 2007. Jeff Christensen/AP Photo File
The Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES—Soprano Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday. She was 59

Her death was announced by her husband, veteran Broadway actor Danny Burstein, who said in a statement “our family is devastated. I have no words at this moment because I’m numb.” Luker went public in 2020 saying she had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.