The Broadway star of musical instruments with enchanting style, enchanting physique and pierced dancing, including Ann Rinking, Chicago, has died at the age of 71. His former co-star Cheetah Rivera was among those paying tribute, saying that the “spirit and glow” of Rinking would always be with me. Lee Gross, …
Read More »Tony-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Foss collaborator Ann Rinking dies at 71
NEW YORK – Ann Rinking, Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and collaborator of Bob Foss, who helped spread the gorgeous, muscular hybrid of jazz and percussion movement on Broadway and beyond, has died. She was 71 years old. Ricking died Saturday while visiting the family in Seattle, his manager Lee Gross …
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Hollywood and Broadway have spent many decades tied up in a vicious cycle: both blockbusters have spent more money on grandiose grandeur, which in turn requires ticket sales to justify investments, moving big budgets to attract large audiences, and so on. It goes. Still, it doesn’t seem easy to adapt …
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Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who had been hospitalized for three months and had his leg amputated after contracting the coronavirus, died, his wife, Amanda Kloots, said Sunday. He was 41 years old. “My dear husband passed away this morning,” said Kloots in an Instagram post. “He was surrounded by love …
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