reports Variety. She was 71.“The world and our family have lost a vibrant, amazing talent and beautiful soul. Ann was the heart of our family and the life of the party,” her family said in a statement to Variety on Monday. “She was visiting our brother in Washington state when she went to sleep and never woke up.
We will miss her more than we can say. Heaven has the best choreographer available now. I’m sure they are dancing up a storm up there!
Annie, we will love and miss you always!!!”Dancer and choreographer Christopher Dean also memorialized the Broadway legend in a Facebook post. “The lights on Broadway are forever more dim this morning and there is one less star in the sky,” he wrote Monday.
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