In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.

Marisha Wallace didn’t leave the United States over politics. She left for a role — a last-minute gig in London in late 2016, covering for an ailing actor in Casey Nicholaw’s West End production of “Dreamgirls.” Effie White was the part, and Wallace smashed it. Then the jobs kept coming. So she stayed, a North Carolinian flourishing there as she had not flourished in New York. In London she built herself a life, and gathered accolades for her wo…