Joshua Henry Just Got the 2026 Met Gala Off to a Rousing Start—With a Whitney Houston Homage
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Authority
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Brand Signal
6/15
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Dressed in a scarlet Bode suit, Henry—who currently stars in Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of “Ragtime”—took the carpet on Monday night with an exuberant cover of “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.”
