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Bob Avian Dies: ‘Dreamgirls’ Producer, Broadway Choreographer & Michael Bennett Collaborator Was 83

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Bob Avian, the dancer-turned-choreographer who played an integral role in such pivotal Broadway musicals as A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Company, Follies and Miss Saigon, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at a hospital in Ft.

Lauderdale, Florida. He was 83.His death, which was not Covid-related, was announced by spokesperson Matt Polk.Born in New York City and a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts, Avian also studied at Boston Ballet School, and would begin his professional career as a dancer in more than a dozen Broadway musicals.

Among them were the seminal 1960s productions of West Side Story and Funny Girl.In 1968 Avian began a collaboration that would prove central to his legacy and Broadway history: On Promises, Promises

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