The Tap Dance Kid is a musical based on the novel Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh. It was written by Charles Blackwell with music...
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Dawnn Lewis (category The High School of Music & Art alumni)
character Dulcie in the National Tour of the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid under the name "Dawnn J. Lewis". Lewis appeared in the first five of six...
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Savion Glover (category American tap dancers)
1973) is an American tap dancer, actor and choreographer. The youngest of three sons, Glover was born to a white father, who left the family before he was...
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Danny Daniels (category American tap dancers)
Astaire Award in 1984 for The Tap Dance Kid and received three more Tony nominations for High Spirits, Walking Happy, and the 1967 revival of Annie Get...
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Dulé Hill (category American tap dancers)
age, and appeared in the musical The Tap Dance Kid as Savion Glover's understudy on Broadway, a part he subsequently played on the show's national tour...
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Alfonso Ribeiro (category American tap dancers)
he starred in the title role of the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid and later took part in the 13th season of the British reality show I'm a Celebrity...
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performance in The Tap Dance Kid. He portrayed jazz trumpeter and composer Dizzy Gillespie in the 1988 Clint Eastwood film Bird. He originated the role of Mayor...
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Louise Fitzhugh (category Harriet the Spy)
adapted into the short film The Tap Dance Kid for Special Treat in 1978. It was also adapted into the 1983 Tony-nominated musical The Tap Dance Kid. According...
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Harold Nicholas (category American tap dancers)
dancer specializing in tap. Nicholas was the younger half of the tap-dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers...
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Tap is a 1989 American dance drama film written and directed by Nick Castle and starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr. Max Washington (Gregory Hines)...
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appeared in the film Slow Dancing in the Big City. She began her directing career with an episode of NBC Special Treat titled "The Tap Dance Kid", based on...
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He most notably wrote the music for the Broadway shows Dreamgirls (1981, with lyrics and book by Tom Eyen), The Tap Dance Kid (1983), and Side Show (1997)...
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lyricist with the Off-Broadway musical Hark! at the Mercer-O'Casey Theatre. In the 1980s, he wrote the lyrics for the Broadway show The Tap Dance Kid, which...
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38th Tony Awards (category 1984 awards in the United States)
George Hearn) The Tap Dance Kid ("Fabulous Feet" - Hinton Battle, Company) The Rink ("Wallflower" - Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli) Sunday in the Park with...
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Annie and was the dance music arranger for the original Broadway productions of Chicago, 1776, The Tap Dance Kid and Crazy for You. Simonson, Robert (April...
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Produced by Paul Leka. The Original Tap Dancing Kid, 1973, Columbia 32157. Produced by Felix Cavaliere. The Dragon is Dancing, 1975, Epic 33565. Produced...
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Minskoff Theatre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
"The Tap Dance Kid (Broadway, Broadhurst Theatre, 1983)". Playbill. Archived from the original on January 17, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2022. "'Tap Dance...
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Hattie Winston (section The Electric Company)
husband. Winston portrayed the lead, Billie Holiday, in play Lady Day (1981). She starred in the Broadway hit The Tap Dance Kid (1983−84) as Ginnie, her...
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Douglas also portrayed Amy Simms in the 1989 dance/drama film Tap alongside Gregory Hines and the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., for which she won an NAACP Image...
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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (category 1947 establishments in the United States)
Stephen Hanan The Tap Dance Kid – Hinton Battle and Samuel E. Wright Big River – René Auberjonois, Daniel H. Jenkins and Ron Richardson The Mystery of Edwin...
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(1980 revival) Brigadoon (1980 revival) The American Clock (1980) The Corn Is Green (1983 revival) The Tap Dance Kid (1983) Souvenir (2005) Awards 1980: Tony...
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Donica, More Join Encores! Into the Woods; Trevor Jackson Replaces Dulé Hill for The Tap Dance Kid". Playbill. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022...
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Chef and Coach. He won a Daytime Emmy for his score for the TV miniseries The Tap Dance Kid. He was married to Francesca Bosetti, and had two children:...
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Harold Wheeler (musician) (redirect from The Harold Wheeler Consort)
orchestrated by The Tap Dance Kid (1983) – Musical Supervisor, music arranged by, vocal arrangements by The Wiz (1984) – music orchestrated by The Three Musketeers...
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"THEATER; A Playwright-Actor Welcomes His Karma". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2021. "Dancing on Moonlight". www.iobdb.com. Retrieved 29 December...
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his first tap class at 52 years of age. He was a great fan of Broadway musicals, such as Dancin', Sophisticated Ladies, The Tap Dance Kid, and Cats....
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began her career on the stage in the 1960s in Off-Off-Broadway theatrical groups. She was a member of Negro Ensemble Company and the La MaMa Experimental...
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Karen Fraction (category African-American female dancers)
cast in a touring production of The Wiz. This eventually led her to Broadway, where she debuted in The Tap Dance Kid starring Hinton Battle. Other credits...
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Joshua Henry (category Canadian expatriate male actors in the United States)
Walter (March 15, 2011). "Photo Coverage: 2011 MCC MISCAST Gala – Danes, Dancy, Borle, Leo & More!". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 2 April 2011. Higgins, Beau...
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Hinton Battle (category American tap dancers)
reviews from the Chicago press and earned him an Ira Aldridge Award. His role in The Tap Dance Kid earned Hinton a second Tony Award as well as the NAACP Award...
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