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The nominees have been announced for the 32nd Annual
Fred & Adele Astaire Awards which
will be held on Monday,
June 2 at 7:30pm at
NYU?s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Select
tickets are available to the public priced
at $425,
$200 & $75; tickets can currently be
purchased online at www.TheAstaireAwards.org
Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show:
Julius Chisholm (After
Midnight), Nick
Cordero (Bullets
Over Broadway), Virgil
Gadson(After Midnight), Jared
Grimes (After
Midnight), Neil
Patrick Harris (Hedwig
and the Angry Inch), James
Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Andy
Karl(Rocky) & Desmond
Richardson (After
Midnight).
Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show:
Krystal Joy Brown (Big
Fish), Dormeshia
Sumbry Edwards (After
Midnight), Karine
Plantadit (After
Midnight), Gayle
Rankin (Cabaret), Monique
Smith (After
Midnight), Heléne
Yorke (Bullets
Over Broadway) & Karen
Ziemba(Bullets Over Broadway).
Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway Show:
Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin), Susan
Stroman (Big
Fish & Bullets
Over Broadway), Warren
Carlyle (After
Midnight), Steven
Hoggett and Kelly
Devine (Rocky), Josh
Prince (Beautiful), Peggy
Hickey (A
Gentleman?s Guide to Love and Murder) & Rob
Marshall (Cabaret).
The Astaire Awards is the
only awards show to
honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and
in film and
were first started in 1982 by the late Fred
Astaire and
the late Douglas
Watt (a
critic and writer for the NY
Daily News and The
New Yorker, his
100th birthday
would be this year). This year will also honor 5-time
Tony Award nominee and 2-time Emmy Award-winning veteran
choreographer Pat
Birchwith its Douglas
Watt Lifetime Achievement Award and
legendary dancer and dance instructor Luigi with
the Outstanding
Achievement in the Preservation of Musical Theatre Award.
American choreographer and director Pat
Birch began
her career as a dancer in Broadway musicals, including Brigadoon, Goldilocks,
andWest Side Story and
she has performed as a soloist with Martha Graham and Agnes
de Mille. She earned Tony Award nominations for her
choreography of the original Broadway productions of Grease, Over
Here!, Pacific
Overtures, Music
Is and Parade,
has directed and choreographed music videos for Cyndi Lauper,
the Rolling Stones, and Carly Simon and also choreographed
numbers on Saturday
Night Livefor six years.
Born Eugene Louis Faccuito in Steubenville,
Ohio and nicknamed Luigi from
Gene Kelly, as a dancer he appeared in over 40 films
including An
American in Paris, Annie
Get Your Gun, On
the Town, Singin'
in the Rain, The
Band Wagon and White
Christmas. The
exercise routine he created for his own rehabilitation after
a devastating accident became the world's first complete
technique for learning jazz dance. His students have
included Liza
Minnelli, Ben Vereen, Tony Roberts and Susan
Stroman.
Each year The Astaire Awards also gives a
special ?Adele Astaire Scholarship? to a young up and coming
dancer and the
awards are
presented each year by Patricia
Watt (the
daughter of Douglas Watt).
The 32nd Annual
Fred & Adele Astaire Awards will
take place on Monday,
June 2 at 7:30pm at
the Skirball
Center for the Performing Artsat New
York University (566
LaGuardia Place). Select
tickets are available to the public, priced
at $425,
$200 & $75 and
can be purchased
online at
www.TheAstaireAwards.org
NYU SKIRBALL CENTER: The
Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is the
premier venue for the presentation of cultural and
performing arts events for New York University and lower
Manhattan. Led by executive producer Jay Oliva (President
Emeritus, NYU) and senior director Michael Harrington, the
programs of the Skirball Center reflect NYU's mission as an
international center of scholarship, defined by excellence
and innovation and shaped by an intellectually rich and
diverse environment. A vital aspect of the Center's mission
is to build young adult audiences for the future of live
performance. www.nyuskirball.org
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