R.I.P Frankie Manning
R.I.P Frankie Manning
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#1R.I.P Frankie Manning
Posted: 4/29/09 at 12:23am
Frankie Manning, a dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer who pioneered the Lindy Hop in the 1930s, died from complications of pneumonia on April 27 in New York. He would have celebrated his 95th birthday on May 26.
Headlines: Tony-Winning Choreographer Frankie Manning Dies at 94
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#2re: R.I.P Frankie Manning
Posted: 4/29/09 at 1:59am
"In honor of his 85th birthday in 1999, he danced with 85 partners at the Roseland Ballroom, where he had been turned away in the 1930s."
I was familiar with Manning's choreography, but not his life. How incredible. Sounds like a bio-pic movie to me...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#2re: R.I.P Frankie Manning
Posted: 4/29/09 at 10:35amRIP Frankie.
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
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