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Mark Kennedy FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2006 file photo, Tony Award-winning choreographer Bob Avian poses in front of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, home of the revival of " A Chorus Line," in New York. Avian died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 of cardiac arrest at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, He was 83. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada, File) January 22, 2021 - 11:20 AM NEW YORK - Bob Avian, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who had a role in some of the most beloved and influential shows on Broadway, including “Dreamgirls,” “A Chorus Line,” �...

Bob Avian, the Tony-winning choreographer of A Chorus Line and Ballroom, died at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on January 21 after suffering from cardiac arrest, a spokesperson confirmed. He was 83. Born in New York City, Avian was educated at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts as well as the Boston Ballet School. He began his professional career as a dancer and was in more than a dozen Broadway shows, including West Side Story, Funny Girl and Henry, Sweet Henry. He first met Michael Bennett when they both appeared in Nowhere to Go But Up in 1962. He then became...

Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 13.41 EST Bob Avian, the Tony award-winning Broadway mainstay both on stage and off for over four decades, died Thursday in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, following a cardiac arrest. The co-choreographer for A Chorus Line and Ballroom was 83. Born in New York City on 26 December 1937, Avian attended Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and the Boston Ballet School and made his Broadway debut in the original stage production of West Side Story. Trained as a dancer, he garnered further recognition alongside Barbra Streisand in the 1964 stage production of Funny G...

For producer Cameron Mackintosh, Mr. Avian choreographed the London premiere of Follies as well as the London and Broadway productions of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's Tony-nominated Miss Saigon. He received a 1991 Tony nomination for Best Choreography for his work on the latter. In a statement Mackintosh said Avian "was also a brilliant producer, instinctively perceptive, and collaborative and shrewdly honest in his opinions but always kind… He facilitated the genius of Michael Bennett, and with every little step he took taught me more about the art of staging a moder...