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Champion died at 10:00 a.m. on August 25, 1980, in Manhattan at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Champion's death came only ten hours before the opening-night performance of 42nd Street, the Broadway musical he choreographed and directed. It would be his swan song, running nine years.
The Washington Post reports the sudden death of Gower Champion, a Broadway legend and director of the musical 42nd Street, on its opening night.
Gower Champion. G. Champion y su esposa Marge (n. 1919) en una foto de 1957 correspondiente a una fugaz serie cómica de televisión. Gower Carlyle Champion (Geneva, Illinois, 22 de junio de 1919- Nueva York, 25 de agosto de 1980) fue un actor, director teatral, coreógrafo y bailarín estadounidense.
24 de ago. de 2010 · “This is tragic. You don’t understand. 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.
26 de ago. de 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...
1 de abr. de 2021 · One of the first was a 1986 Pillow Gala that was planned to honor the life of Gower Champion, who had died six years earlier on the opening night of his final Broadway show, 42nd Street.
Gower Champion was born on 22 June 1921 in Geneva, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte (1969), Lovely to Look At (1952) and Hello, Dolly! (1969). He was married to Karla Most and Marge Champion. He died on 25 August 1980 in New York City, New York,...
