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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.
26 de ago. de 1980 · Gower Champion, 61, the famed choreographer and former dancer who was a major figure on the Broadway musical stage and the director of such hits as "Hello Dolly!," died yesterday, hours...
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...
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.
22 de oct. de 2020 · Her death was confirmed by her son Gregg Champion, who said that she had been living with him at his home for the past six months because of the pandemic.
It opened August 25, 1980, the very evening that Gower Champion died at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. It ran for 3,486 performances – beating Dolly ’s record – and won posthumous Drama Desk and Tony Awards® for Champion’s choreography in 1981 (as well as Best Musical).
