As a young woman, Maleah Joi Moon used to join the crowds outside Broadway stage doors after shows to cheer the stars. Now she’s the one that people line up to meet. Moon has had quite a 2024. She won a best actress Tony Award, went to the Met Gala and appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Broadway star Maleah Joi Moon had a “cupcake” of a year. After winning a best actress Tony Award for “Hell’s Kitchen on Broadway,” going to the Met Gala and leading her musical at a rainy Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, she’s one of the Associated Press ’ Breakthrough Entertainers of 2024. Maleah Joi Moon poses for a portrait on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in New York. Moon has been named one of The Associated Press ’ Breakthrough Entertainers of 2024.
“The show’s just about love, to put it as simply as possible — the love story between a girl and her first love, the love story between a girl and her community, and, of course, to bring it all home, the love story between a mother and a daughter,” she adds. Moon grew up not too far from the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood — in Franklin Township, New Jersey — with a burning ambition to be on stage and blessed with plenty of encouragement. She won the role of Dorothy for a school production of “The Wizard of Oz” at age 10 and auditioned for “The Lion King” and “Six” on Broadway. “I kind of just caught the bug,” she says.
“I did lose sight, honestly, of what made me sparkle or what made me feel like I sparkled. But this process has been such a gift in the way that it has brought me back to what made me want to do theater to begin with,” she says.
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