In 2018, Ariana DeBose took her high school prom date with her to see the Broadway show The Prom. At the time, DeBose was a thriving theater actor in New York, who had appeared in the Broadway production of Hamilton and received a Tony Award nomination for playing the title character in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.
But watching the production of The Prom touched her in a personal way, and took her back to her high school experience in Raleigh, North Carolina — likeEmma, the lead character in the show who isn’t allowed to bring her girlfriend to prom.
DeBose is queer (though she doesn’t claim any label) and her prom date had been a boy, a friend from the high school theater group. "We just cried," DeBose says, of seeing the show. "I.
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