Vy Higginsen is an American theater producer, playwright, former disc jockey, and radio and television personality.
[2][4] When her sister, singer Doris Troy, won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater and began touring, Higginsen came along with her.
[3] Higginsen moved on to work in radio for ten years, hosting shows on WBLS and WWRL, and reporting for WNBC-TV and The Metro Channel.
The show opened at the Heckscher Theater in Harlem in 1983 and ran there for eight years, becoming the longest-running off-Broadway black musical in history.
[3][1] The show had previously featured a segment on Higginsen tracing her ancestry, and learning that she was genetically linked with a white cattle rancher from Missouri.