Astaire Award Nominations Celebrate Dance on Broadway
The nominees are:
Best Choreographer
Lynne Taylor Corbett (Swing)
Kathleen Marshall (Kiss Me, Kate)
Susan Stroman (Contact and The Music Man)
Best Female Dancer
Stephanie Michels (Contact)
Deborah Yates (Contact)
Karen Ziemba (Contact)
Best Male Dancer
Clyde Alves (The Music Man)
Michael Berresse (Kiss Me, Kate)
Stanley Wayne Mathis (Kiss Me, Kate)
The 2000 Astaire Awards will be presented at a benefit luncheon for Theatre Development Fund, hosted by former Astaire Awardee, Bebe Neuwirth, at Noon on Thursday, May 25 at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). The event will include several performance elements including special choreography by last year’s “best choreographer” awardee, Patricia Birch.