Ben Vereen has spent six decades making the hardest things look easy. The singer, dancer and actor turns 80 on October 10, and the theater world is not letting the milestone pass quietly. The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has announced Ben Vereen’s 80th Birthday Concert for Saturday, November 21, in Newark. Vereen himself will perform. Melba Moore and Brian Stokes Mitchell are on the bill, and so are Lillias White and Shoshana Bean. They will have plenty of material to choose from. Vereen was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina, in 1946 and was a Broadway star before he turned 30. He earned a Tony nomination as Judas in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and won the Tony the following year for ‘Pippin.’ Television viewers met him in 1977 as Chicken George in ‘Roots,’ the miniseries that changed America, and the role brought him an Emmy nomination. Two years later he lit up Bob Fosse’s ‘All That Jazz.’ Children of the ’80s knew him as Uncle Phil on ‘Webster.’ Ben Vereen’s Greatest Comeback RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM AND BAILEY CIRCUS 116th EDITION, Ben Vereen, aired April 16, 1986, ©CBS/courtesy Everett Collection His most remarkable performance may have been his own recovery. In 1992 Vereen suffered a stroke and was struck by a car while walking along a highway in Malibu. He was left with a broken leg and faced a long, painful rehabilitation, and he worked his way back. He has known deep sorrow as well. He lost his daughter Naja in 1987 and his son Ben Jr. in 2020. Ben Vereen / Wikipedia Through all of it he kept performing. In 2025 the Chita Rivera Awards honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. At 80 he has earned the right to sit back and let others do the singing. Nobody who has seen him work expects him to stay in his seat for long. Ben Vereen / Wikipedia Next up: ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ Opened 40 Years Ago, And Kathleen Turner Was Not The First Choice For The Role The post Ben Vereen Turns 80, And Broadway’s Best Are Lining Up To Sing Him Happy Birthday appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, DYR Staff

Tanya Tucker turns 68 on October 10, and she has been a country star for 54 of those years. Born in Seminole, Texas, in 1958, she was just 13 when “Delta Dawn” made her a sensation in 1972, a little girl with a voice that sounded like it had already lived three lifetimes. Most child stars fade. Tucker did the opposite. Tanya Tucker Grew Up In Front Of Everyone Tanya Tucker / Everett She is one of the rare performers who started as a child and carried her audience with her into adulthood, never losing the grit that made her different. The hits and the headlines came in equal measure for decades, and she outlasted every prediction that she would burn out. A Comeback That Became A Coronation Veteran artist Tanya Tucker, who will be celebrated alongside Bob McDill and Patty Loveless / Everett Collection In 2019 she returned with While I’m Livin’, produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, and won her first Grammys for it. Four years later she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The women she came up alongside have stayed close, too, as we saw in the last piece of advice Dolly Parton gave her. Her full career record reads like country music’s own stubborn survival story. Sixty-eight years old, and Delta Dawn still has not run out of road. NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – NOVEMBER 13: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild of musical group Little Big Town, Sara Evans, Crystal Gayle, Jennifer Nettles, Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton, Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Amanda Shires and Maren Morris of The Highwomen, Tanya Tucker, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby of The Highwomen perform onstage during the 53rd annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images,) Next up: Ben Vereen Turns 80, And Broadway’s Best Are Lining Up To Sing Him Happy Birthday The post Tanya Tucker Turns 68, 54 Years After “Delta Dawn” appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, DYR Staff

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