How a St. Pauls woman made it on Broadway
When Alex Hairston was 10, she was determined to win a role as Dorothy in a Lumberton production of “The Wizard of Oz.”“She got a little boom box and was practicing the song,” said her mother, Donna Brooks. “I actually told her she could not sing that well, that she needed voice lessons.”Hairston didn’t get the part, but she did take the voice lessons. They paid off — big time — as did the other theatrical training […]
