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*Broadway sensation LaChanze has signed on to star in "Inked Baby" at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, marking her first stage role since winning the 2006 Tony for her performance in "The Color Purple."
Press notes describe the play as follows: "Stuck for money and unable to conceive, Gloria (LaChanze) enlists the aid of her sister to make the child that she and her husband can't. As they uneasily await the baby's arrival, a mysterious contamination spreads outside. But consumed by their own struggles, is anyone paying attention?
"In this imaginative, other-worldly new drama, one family fights to find its place in a neglected neighborhood."
Opening night will be March 23, and the production will run through April 5.