Donald McKayle

On stage 2 productions, 7 years

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Also credited on5 works

Golden Boy
House of Flowers
Raisin
Sophisticated Ladies
West Side Story

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In the literature8 passages

• The show “danced black,” too, for Golden Boy had hired a black choreographer: Donald McKayle, who did especially fine work when Joe’s family and friends urged him to remember his humble roots in the showstopping “Don’t Forget 127th Street.” (“The neighborhood is classy; we have rats as big as Lassie.”)ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• That was different. But I got to work with Donald McKayle, the great choreographer. He really devised some lovely stuff in that movie. I think it’s a divine movie. Kids love it and I am so glad I did it, I really am. My best number was cut, though. A very funny number with a broomstick. But the music was running too long. Later they wante…ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• 13 The original choreographer was African American Donald McKayle (1930–), responsible for landmark musicals such as Golden Boy (1964) and Raisin (1974). He also choreographed the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
• [>] Fosse brought on Donald McKayle: Facts of the McKayle/Fosse ordeal obtained via interview notes with Roger Adams (May 25, 1960), Dorothy Fields (June 1, 1960), Albert Hague (June 1, 1960), Kazimir Kokich (June 6, 1960), Robert Linden (May 24, 1960), and David Shaw (May 25, 1960); notes can be found in LOC, box 46B.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• directed by Donald McKayle (replaced by we > choreographed by Donald McKayle produced by Cyma Rubintheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• show's structure—one number after another staged without plot excuse? Donald McKayle is credited as director, but the program calls the “entire production supervised by John Berry.” Thanks to a distorting sound system, the lyrics are unintelligible, but they are credited “mostly” to Davis along with the book and music. Did Davis think up…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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