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Joshua Alden "Jay" Norman (March 20, 1937 – November 14, 2021) was a dancer, actor, and choreographer known for his work in both stage and film productions, particularly in musical theater. He is best known and most closely associated with West Side Story , in which he performed on stage in the original Broadway production, and on tour ...
Jaime Juan Rogers (May 13, 1940 [6] – January 4, 2024 [7]) (pronounced and sometimes credited as Hymie Rogers [8] [9]) was an American dancer, choreographer, and director.. Nominated for an Emmy in 1976, and perhaps best known for his work with Sammy Davis Jr. in the Broadway musical Golden Boy, [8] for choreographing the TV series Fame and his part in the film West Side Story, [10] his ...
1.1 1940s. 1.2 1950s. 1.3 1960s. ... is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of choreographers in both musicals and plays. The award has been given since 1947 ...
Michael Kidd (August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and who staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
Throughout the 1940s, Lichine frequently worked in Hollywood on movie musicals and had considerable success, both as performer and choreographer. He can be seen as a specialty dancer in The Heat's On and Something to Shout About (both, 1943) and as Eleanor Powell 's boogie partner in Sensations of 1945 , released in 1944. [ 10 ]
It starred Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Eve Arden (who was also in the 1940 film), and Billy DeWolfe. The musical was seen with decreasing frequency in the following decades. [2] [6] In 1926 Frazee produced what he marketed as a companion musical to No, No, Nanette at the Four Cohans Theatre in Chicago: the musical Yes, Yes, Yvette. [7]
Nothing in the American musical theater has been more inaccessible, however, than the record of its dance traditions, and there are many to recount. For the most part, dance movement itself was either the last to be mentioned by critics or ignored altogether, resulting in dance numbers in musicals going unrecorded. The only way to preserve ...
Pages in category "Musical theatre choreographers" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.