Rebecca Luker
Rebecca Luker, Star of ‘Show Boat,’ ‘The Music Man’ and ‘Mary Poppins’ on Broadway, Dies at 59
An operatic soprano, Luker portrayed Magnolia, the daughter who marries a sleazy riverboat gambler, in Show Boat, which opened on Broadway in 1994; the librarian Marian in The Music Man, which began in 2001; and Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins. She starred in that one from 2006-10. Luker also appeared on the big screen in writer-director David Chase’s Not Fade Away (2012) and on television in such series as Boardwalk Empire, Elementary and NCIS: New Orleans. One of four children, Rebecca Joan Luker was born on April 17, 1961, in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Montevallo in 1984 after spending time with the Michigan Opera Theater, then made her Broadway debut in 1989 stepping in for Sarah Brightman as the chorus gi...
