In 1973 he won an astounding sixth Tony Award for Choreography
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Bob Fosse - Wikipedia  Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse (June 23, 1927  September 23, 1987) was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director, screenwriter, film director and actor. He won eight Tony Awards for choreography, more than anyone else, ... (Fosse won the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical in 1973 with Pippin.).
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Tony Award for Best Choreography - Wikipedia  The Tony Award for Best Choreography is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of ... Tony Award for Best Choreography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: ... 1952 6th Tony Awards  Robert Alton  Pal Joey. 1953 7th Tony Awards.
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Facts & Trivia - History from the Tony Awards - TonyAwards.com ...  Bob Fosse was the only director to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy in the same year (1973). He won two Tonys (direction and choreography) for Pippin,...
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Tony Awards | Shari on the Aisle  Jun 13, 2016 ... Posts about Tony Awards written by Shari Lifland. ... at the performance I saw, in for the Tony-nominated, Oscar-winning .... Choreography: Denis Jones .... McDonald won a record-setting sixth Tony Award (for Best Actress in a Play) ..... A musical version of the play, Raisin, premiered on Broadway in 1973.
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Top Artistic Directors in Musicals - Beta Cennarium  Sep 25, 2016 ... This next artistic director has won an astounding ten Tony Awards. ... Champion went on to Broadway where he first worked as a dancer and choreographer. ... Other awards won by Fosse were Best Direction of a Musical in 1973 for Pippin and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction in ... October 6th, 2016.
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Tony Awards  The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards salute excellence in Broadway theatre. ... The biggest talents in theatre, film, tv and music together on one stage for one ... A new production of the joyous musical based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning .... dazzling dances, spectacular songs, delightful dames, and a heart as big as...
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Alvin Ailey - Choreographer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Alvin Ailey was an American choreographer and activist who ... The ballet premiered on January 31st, 1960 and has become a masterpiece of American ... His most famous dance is Revelations, a celebratory study of religious spirit. ... the black church services he attended as well as the music he heard at...
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The History of George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet ...  In 1924, as part of a small touring group called the Soviet State Dancers, which ... Within a year, he had made Balanchine his chief choreographer, and it was under .... And as for having a real home at last24 years after leaving Russiait ..... Maria Tallchief, for a dozen years the unproclaimed prima ballerina of City Ballet,...
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Gregory Hines - Wikipedia  Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946  August 9, 2003) was an American dancer, actor, ... and won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Jelly's Last Jam (1992) and ... He also co-hosted the Tony Awards ceremony in 1995 and 2002. ... SeriesThe Gregory Hines Show; 2001 Black Reel Awards Network/Cable...
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Bob Fosse | The Stars | Broadway: The American Musical | PBS  Director-choreographer Bob Fosse forever changed the way audiences around the ... Through his films he revolutionized the presentation of dance on screen and ... The film was Fosse's biggest public success and won eight Academy Awards. ... and choreographed a variety show special for NBC starring Liza Minnelli, LIZA...
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Bob Fosse | The Official Masterworks Broadway Site  He also brought along Carol Haney as dance partner and choreographer's assistant, ... In 1956 stage director and choreographer Jerome Robbins invited Bob Fosse to ... Nominated for Best Musical, the show ran for 924 performances and won ... directorial film venture was a true blockbuster, Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and...
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NEWS FROM THE JEROME ROBBINS FOUNDATION  Jerome Robbins Award was preceded by a performance of Robbins' ballet,. Dances at a ... and Jerome Robbins all together for the very first time in 1957. 2011. FORMER OR .... Over the past .... My choosing of a Jerry role for that evening took me a long, long time to come to, ... Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins,.
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Bass Performance Hall - Official Website | 2016 Tony Awards  Lyle Lovett and His Large Band ... What play production has won the most Tony Awards? ... The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical (2001) with 12 Tonys ... Best Lyrics for Company (1971); and Best Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979), Into the Woods (1988) and Passion (1994).
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Bob Fosse | The Official Masterworks Broadway Site  On Broadway, Fosse won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for Choreography (The Pajama Game 1955, Damn Yankees 1956, ... Big Deal 1986), plus one for stage direction (Pippin 1973); he won an Oscar for his .... Big Deal (1986), Fosse's last Broadway production as director and choreographer before his death,...
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Jerome Robbins: A master of both ballet and musical choreography ...  May 16, 2014 ... By the time he turned 25, many leading choreographers  including ... The work, which combined elements of classical ballet and jazz to ... curtain calls at its first performance and catapulting Robbins to fame. ... Following Fancy Free, he created series of short ballets on modern subjects for Ballet Theater.
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Facts & Trivia - History from the Tony Awards - TonyAwards.com ...  The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards salute excellence in Broadway theatre. ... Musical production that has won the most Tonys: .... She won as Best Featured Actress in a Play for Agnes of God (1982). .... Tommy Tune, Harvey Fierstein and Trey Parker have each received Tony Awards in four different categories.
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Bob Fosse's Broadway - Library - Garage Door Tigard  They also spend hours working independently to create new dance routines. ... each other, galloping and trotting as instructed, presenting themselves with pride, confidence, ... for her acting and her pure classical ballet technique with Roland Petit and Ballet Rambert, ... In dance, choreography is the act of designing dance.
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Merce Cunningham - Merce Cunningham Trust  Through much of his life, he was also one of the greatest American dancers. ... The most famous and controversial of these concerned the relationship between ... Among his many awards are the National Medal of Arts (1990) and the ... Ballet Theater, White Oak Dance Project, and London's Rambert Dance Company.
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DANCE - THREE WORKS BY BALANCHINE - NYTimes.com  Jun 1, 1986 ... However, the moments when dancers do break loose to traverse the stage come as refreshing choreographic gusts. ... As Prince Ivan, Leonid Kozlov convincingly suggested that he was wandering ... ''Slaughter on Tenth Avenue'' is a sequence from ''On Your Toes,'' the Rodgers and Hart musical of 1936.
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10.03.2007 - Thoroughly modern - and steps ahead of her time  Oct 3, 2007 ... (ABT photo by Lois Greenfield, Joffrey photo by Herbert Migdoll) ... Cal Performances offers a master class (or three) in the seminal work of choreographer Twyla Tharp ... When the Joffrey Ballet premiered Twyla Tharp's Deuce Coupe in 1973, ... it "put ballet and modern dance together with popular music.
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NYCB - George Balanchine - New York City Ballet  George Balanchine, regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world ... of the Balanchine-Kirstein collaboration was the School of American Ballet, ... On October 11, 1948, the New York City Ballet was born, dancing a program ... and Western Symphony, (1954); Allegro Brillante (1956); Agon (1957); The...