NewsPHOTO CALL: The Best of Broadway Dance Takes Center Stage at the 2014 Fred and Adele Astaire AwardsThe new Broadway musical revue After Midnight, a swirling medley of music and dance inspired by Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club, swept all four categories at the 2014 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which were presented June 2 at the Skirball Center.
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Matthew Blank
June 03, 2014
Warren Carlyle, the Tony Award-nominated director-choreographer of After Midnight, won the Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway show, while After Midnight cast members Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards and Karine Plantadit tied for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show, and Jared Grimes won for Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show. After Midnight was the most-nominated production of the Astaire Awards season.
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The Best of Broadway Dance Takes Center Stage at the 2014 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
The Astaire Awards honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film. The 2014 Astaire Awards also honored five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Emmy Award-winning veteran choreographer Pat Birch with its Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award and legendary dancer and dance instructor Luigi with the Outstanding Achievement in the Preservation of Musical Theatre Award.
Each year The Astaire Awards gives a special Adele Astaire Scholarship to a young, up-and-coming dancer, and the awards are presented each year by Patricia Watt (the daughter of Douglas Watt).