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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Musical theatre
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.
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