Notable Choreographers # 3

Peter Gennaro

(November 23, 1919 – September 28, 2000)

As a Dancer
- First noticed as member of the trio that danced the Bob Fosse number "Steam Heat" in
The Pajama Game
- Kiss Me Kate
- Guys and Dolls
As a Choreographer
- Collaborated with Jerome Robbins on West Side Story, choreographing (without credit) a
majority of the "America" and "Mambo" dance sequences. Wow….
- Annie - choreography
- Fiorello - choreography
- Served for many years as choreographer for Radio City Music Hall, staging routines for
The Rockettes.
- 4 Tony noms for choreo

Tommy Tune

(Thomas James Tune) February 28, 1939

Performer:
- Seesaw (1974 Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical)

Notable Choreography:
- Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
- Grand Hotel
- Will Rogers Follies

Notable Direction:
- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (Tony for Best Choreography)
- Stepping Out
- Nine (Tony for Best Musical/Tony for direction of a musical)
- On the Twentieth Century
- Grand Hotel
- Will Rogers Follies
Tune is the only person to win Tony Awards in the same categories (Best Choreography and
Best Direction of a Musical) in consecutive years (1990 and 1991), and the first to win in four
categories. He has won ten Tony Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

Wayne Cilento
August 28, 1949

Originated the role of Mike in the Broadway show A Chorus Line

Performed

- Mike, Chorus Line

- Seesaw (with Tommy Tune)

Choreography
- Sweet Charity- revival (2005)
- H2S - revival (1996)
- Wicked
- Big Deal
- The Who’s Tommy (Tony for Choreo)
- Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat