
Dancing Man
A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
Bob Avian(Author)
Tom Santopietro(Co-Author)
University Press of Mississippi
Published on 28. February 2020
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4968-2588-9 (ISBN)
Description
Tony and Olivier Award-winning Bob Avian's dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway's legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in Coco and working with Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett while helping to choreograph the original productions of Company and Follies. During this time, Avian won a Tony Award as the cochoreographer of A Chorus Line and produced the spectacular Tony Award-winning Dreamgirls. For a triumphant third act, Avian choreographed Julie Andrews's return to the New York stage, devised all of the musical staging for Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard, and directed A Chorus Line on Broadway. He worked with the biggest names on Broadway, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carol Burnett, Jennifer Holliday, Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch, and Glenn Close.
Candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining, here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider's view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.
Candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining, here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider's view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
35 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4968-2588-9 (9781496825889)
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Bob Avian is an award-winning Broadway choreographer known for his work on Promises, Promises; Coco; A Chorus Line; and Ballroom. He began his career on Broadway as a dancer in such classic shows as West Side Story, Funny Girl, and Hello, Dolly! He served as the original producer of Dreamgirls in 1981 and directed the revival of A Chorus Line in 2006. He divides his time between Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Kent, Connecticut.
Tom Santopietro is an author and Broadway theater manager. His books include The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time. A frequent media commentator and interview, he lectures on classic films and over the past thirty years has managed more than two dozen Broadway shows.
Tom Santopietro is an author and Broadway theater manager. His books include The Sound of Music Story: How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time. A frequent media commentator and interview, he lectures on classic films and over the past thirty years has managed more than two dozen Broadway shows.