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re: Liza with a Z dancers
Posted by: bobby2 01:45 am EDT 08/28/21
In reply to: Liza with a Z dancers - claploudly 11:52 pm EDT 08/27/21

Candy Brown was one. I have a DVD with commentary by Liza. I remember her pointing Candy out.

(she was in Pippin commercial and was sort of the basis for the Richie character in A Chorus Line until she quit the workshops to do Chicago)
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re: Liza with a Z dancers
Posted by: Ballerina56 02:41 pm EDT 08/28/21
In reply to: re: Liza with a Z dancers - bobby2 01:45 am EDT 08/28/21

After seeing the show earlier this month, I did a pretty exhaustive search on the dancing ensemble. In addition to Candy Brown, Loretta Abbott and Jimmy Roddy, I found that Spencer Henderson and Neil Jones were the men with Liza in "I Gotcha." The two were also the only dancers from the special that joined Minnelli on a pared-down version of the show on tour.

Both Henderson and Roddy succumbed to AIDS in the 80s and 90s, and Jones passed away in 2019 at 78. Loretta Abbott died in 2016 at 83.

Louise Quick assisted Fosse on the special, but not sure if she performed, as it was hard to make out individual faces.The rest are a mystery to me.
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Thanks for sharing their names!
Posted by: dreambaby 02:58 pm EDT 08/28/21
In reply to: re: Liza with a Z dancers - Ballerina56 02:41 pm EDT 08/28/21

Ah, the passing of time. Kind of shocking to imagine that one of those dancers could have been 83 five years ago.
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