Cinderella’s KeKe Palmer Spills 6 Truths about Co-Star NeNe Leakes | Playbill

News Cinderella’s KeKe Palmer Spills 6 Truths about Co-Star NeNe Leakes Broadway’s first African-American Cinderella reveals backstage secrets about her Real Housewives co-star.

KeKe Palmer appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen February 1. The actor made her Broadway debut as Ella in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; she was the first African-American woman to play the character on the Main Stem. At the time, her evil stepmother was Real Housewives star NeNe Leakes.

Talk-show host Andy Cohen played a lightning round of “Keke Leakes,” to learn more about the behind-the-scenes relationship between the pair.

Since their time onstage together, Palmer went on to play the role of Marty in Fox’s Grease: Live, and Leakes took on Matron “Mama” Morton in Chicago.

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