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He won a Tony Award for “Fences” and was nominated for his performance in “The Iceman Cometh.”

Washington has starred in multiple Broadway productions, including “Julius Caesar,” “Fences,” “A Raisin in the Sun” and “The Iceman Cometh.”

In 1970, “Only the Strong Survive” was nominated for R&B song at the Grammy Awards, while Butler’s album “The Ice Man Cometh” — produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, architects of the lush Philly soul sound — received a nod for best R&B vocal performance.

Rocky’s is the bar, so friendly it makes “Cheers” look like “The Iceman Cometh.”

Washington, an enormously successful film actor with two Academy Awards, for “Glory” and “Training Day,” has starred in five previous Broadway plays, most recently a 2018 revival of “The Iceman Cometh.”