Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2015 13:15:22 GMT -4
New Yorkers are sadden by his death he had an amazing voice just give a listen.
Brooklyn resident and Broadway actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, died early Saturday morning when he fell off his mother’s fire escape in Bed-Stuy near Clinton Hill, police said.
Jean-Baptiste was sitting on the fourth-floor fire escape on Greene Avenue at 4:15 a.m., an NYPD spokesman said, “when he accidentally fell off to the street below.”
The young actor was declared dead at 5:25 a.m. at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Bed-Stuy, police said. An initial NYPD investigation determined there was nothing suspicious about his death.
“He shook the world with his voice and broke barriers with a smile,” Jean-Baptiste’s sister, Kelsey, wrote on Instagram. “He was a blessing to me, you, and many people in the world.”
Jean-Baptiste, who played Constable and Courfeyrac and practiced as an understudy for the starring role of Jean Valjean in Broadway’s current run of ”Les Miserables,” made history this summer when he went on stage as Valjean.
In doing so, he became the youngest actor, and the only black actor, to play Valjean on Broadway.
“Today I go on as my dream role,” he tweeted on his first night as Valjean. “No words. Guna remember this night.”
“Today is the day,” he had written on Instagram earlier that morning. “Trying to clear my mind. It’s racing. So many emotions. Concrete jungles where dreams are made of.”
Jean-Baptiste gave his final performance as Valjean on Aug. 27, just one night before his tragic death. That entire performance can be downloaded here.
On an NYC sidewalk after the show, he sang a song from Les Miserables called ”The Confrontation.
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