![]() ![]() In the mid-1960s he was a featured dancer on the NBC pop music series Hullabaloo, where he met fellow dancer Donna McKechnie. He gave himself a new last name when he pursued this life in the arts, taking inspiration from his high school.īennett's career as a Broadway dancer began in the 1961 Betty Comden– Adolph Green– Jule Styne musical Subways Are for Sleeping, after which he appeared in Meredith Willson's Here's Love and the short-lived Bajour. He studied dance and choreography in his teens and staged a number of shows in his local high school - Bennett High School in Buffalo, NY - before dropping out to accept the role of Baby John in the US and European tours of West Side Story. His father was Italian American and his mother was Jewish. He also directed and co-choreographed Dreamgirls with Michael Peters.īennett was born Michael DiFiglia in Buffalo, New York, the son of Helen (née Ternoff), a secretary, and Salvatore Joseph DiFiglia, a factory worker. Bennett, under the aegis of producer Joseph Papp, created A Chorus Line based on a workshop process which he pioneered. In 1976, he won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and the Tony Award for Best Choreography for the musical A Chorus Line. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven.īennett choreographed Promises, Promises, Follies and Company. Michael Bennett (Ap– July 2, 1987) was an American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. ![]()
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