As BroadwayWorld sadly reported yesterday, Broadway legend Ann Reinking has passed away, via the star s sister-in-law Dahrla Reinking. She was 71 years old.
Ann Reinking received the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Chicago. More recently, she served as Choreographer for The Visit on Broadway (2011) and Dance Consultant for An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin (2004).
Some of her many theatre credits included: Roxie Hart-Chicago, Encores! NY City Center; Bye-Bye Birdie -nat l tour opposite Tommy Tune; Bob Fosse s Dancin (Tony nom.); Sweet Charity (revival); Roxie Hart in Bob Fosse s Chicago; Pippin, Coco, Maggie in Over Here! (Theatre World, Clarence Derwent and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Goodtime Charley (Tony nom.); The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She received the Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Astaire Awards for her choreography of Chicago.
Legendary Broadway star
The Tony Award-winning actress and dancer passed away in Washington on Saturday night (December 12) at the age of 71, her sister-in-law
Dahrla Reinking told
Variety. A cause of death hasn’t been confirmed as of this time.
Ann was best known for playing the role of Roxie Hart on Broadway in the original run of
Chicago. She reprised the role in the 1996 revival of the musical, which is the longest-running American musical of all time.
Other Broadway shows that
The Tony Award-winning actress and dancer passed away in Washington on Saturday night (December 12) at the age of 71, her sister-in-law
Dahrla Reinking told
Variety. A cause of death hasn’t been confirmed as of this time.
Ann was best known for playing the role of Roxie Hart on Broadway in the original run of
Chicago. She reprised the role in the 1996 revival of the musical, which is the longest-running American musical of all time.
Other Broadway shows that