Norbert Leo Butz, Sutton Foster, Susan Stroman, et al. Win Astaire Awards

Andy Propst

New York City

May 16, 2011

Sutton Foster in Anything Goes
(© Joan Marcus)

The winners of the 29th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on May 15 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, hosted by Bebe Neuwirth and Lee Roy Reams.

Susan Stroman has won the award for Best Choreographer on Broadway for her work on The Scottsboro Boys. Sutton Foster has received a second Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer on Broadway for Anything Goes, while Norbert Leo Butz has won Best Male Dancer for Catch Me if You Can.

Other awards were presented to Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon (Excellence in Choreography in Film) for Mao's Last Dancer, and Jacques d'Amboise received the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, the first Adele Astaire Scholarship has been presented to 17-year-old Corey Snide, a former star of Billy Elliot, who has been accepted to Julliard this fall.

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