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24. Aug. 2010 · Gower Champion died this morning.”. That Aug. 25, 1980 opening became a sad chapter in musical theater history. Never more would musicals have the distinctive Gower Champion touch – staging that was warm and inviting. Champion, of course, was first famous as a performer, as part of the Marge and Gower Champion dance team in the late 1940s.
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CHAMPION, Gower. ( b. 22 June 1919 in Geneva, Illinois; d. 25 August 1980 in New York City), noted dancer, choreographer, and director of stage, screen, and television. Born to John W. Champion, an advertising executive, and Beatrice Carlisle, a custom dressmaker, Champion was raised by his mother in Los Angeles after his parents divorced.
Marge and Gower Champion (1957) During the summer of 1957, the Champions had their own TV series, The Marge and Gower Champion Show, a situation comedy with song and dance numbers. Marge played a dancer and Gower a choreographer. Real-life drummer Buddy Rich was featured as a fictional drummer named Cozy.
Gower Champion, director and choreographer of original 42nd Street, was awarded the Tony Award for Best Choreography for 42nd Street and also won the Dramatists Desk Award in the same category. His name is synonymous with some of the greatest musicals in Broadway history: He was the director and choreographer for Lend an Ear, Bye Bye Birdie (for which he won Tony Awards as director and ...
26. Aug. 1980 · Gower Champion, one of the theater's leading musical directors and choreographers, whose musical "42d Street" opened last night at the Winter Garden Theater, died in Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...
22. Okt. 2020 · By Robert D. McFadden. Oct. 22, 2020. Marge Champion, the lissome dancer and choreographer who with her husband, Gower, epitomized the clean-cut, all-American dance team of Hollywood musicals ...
