Gregg Smith, an actor and dancer whose three-decade collaboration with director and choreographer Kenny Ortega included casting dancers for such films and TV productions as Dirty Dancing, Newsies, Hocus Pocus, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar and various Oscar and Emmy specials, died Jan. 1. The San Fernando Valley resident was 73.
His death was confirmed today by Ortega. No cause of death was released.
After performing in the influential 1968 Off Broadway rock musical Your Own Thing, Smith appeared in the original national touring company of Hair and the L.A. production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He would later appear in Ortega’s Newsies and Stephen Spielberg’s Hook.
He met Ortega in the early 1970s when the two were cast in Hair, and he would subsequently cast dancers in nearly every stage,...
His death was confirmed today by Ortega. No cause of death was released.
After performing in the influential 1968 Off Broadway rock musical Your Own Thing, Smith appeared in the original national touring company of Hair and the L.A. production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He would later appear in Ortega’s Newsies and Stephen Spielberg’s Hook.
He met Ortega in the early 1970s when the two were cast in Hair, and he would subsequently cast dancers in nearly every stage,...
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- PEOPLE.com
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"When I heard they broke up, I was shocked," People's Magazine quoted Imperio, who choreographed them during May's American Idol finale, as.
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- RealBollywood.com
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