Genderqueer star Alex Newell slayed their Macy’s fireworks 2024 efficiency. (NBC)
Glee star Alex Newell, who identifies as genderqueer and makes use of all pronouns, is being broadly praised on social media for completely slaying their Macy’s 4th of July fireworks 2024 efficiency.
Newell, who can be a history-making Tony Award winner, was one of many shining stars of Macy’s annual fireworks present, which celebrates America’s Independence Day.
They took to the stage by New York Metropolis’s Hudson River, as roughly 60,000 fireworks lit up the night time sky behind them, and belted out an astonishing rendition of Ray Charles’ “America the Lovely” and Sara Bareilles’ “Courageous”.
Following their four-minute efficiency, social media was alight with reward for the TV and theatre star.
“Alex Newell is now on the record of folks that I’d take heed to sing the cellphone guide. Superb,” wrote one new-found fan.
“Alex Newell was the perfect a part of the present,” a second declared, as a 3rd praised their “lovely” voice.
Who’s Alex Newell? Their gender id, pronouns and history-making Tony Awards win defined
Newell rose to fame enjoying trans scholar Distinctive Adams in collection three to 6 of Ryan Murphy’s camp traditional Glee, and went on to grow to be an enormous Broadway star with roles in Joseph and the Superb Technicolor Dreamcoat and As soon as on This Island.
But it was Alex Newell’s flip in 2022 musical Shucked that made headlines final 12 months, after Newell – alongside Some Like It Scorching performer J. Harrison Ghee, who additionally makes use of all pronouns – grew to become the primary ever non-binary actor to win a Tony Award for his or her efficiency.
They gained within the Finest Efficiency by a Featured Actor in a Musical class, after which went on to be nominated for a Grammy award for his or her contribution to the Shucked musical album.
“I shouldn’t be up right here, as a queer, non-binary, fats, Black little child from Massachusetts. And to anybody who thinks they’ll’t do it, I’m going to look you useless in your face that you are able to do something you set your thoughts to,” they cried as they collected their Tony Award again in June final 12 months.
Newell got here out as gender nonconforming again in 2017, and in 2020 defined that they associated to their position as Mo in NBC comedy drama Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, who can be genderfluid.
Alongside the Glee star, Macy’s fireworks show additionally noticed performances from Newell’s co-worker and lesbian nation music star Brandy Clark, who wrote the music and lyrics for Shucked.