Ann Reinking, the Broadway star with an elegant style, fascinating physicality and a penetrating look, illuminated musicals, including Chicago, has died at the age of 71. the glare will be with me forever ”. Reinking manager Lee Gross said he died Saturday while visiting a family in Seattle.
Reinking played Cabaret, Pippin and Goodtime Charley (as Joan of Arc) before taking on the role of the ambitious and murderous Roxie Hart in Chicago in 1977. Twenty years later, she resumed the role and won a Tony Award for choreographing the rebirth of that musical in the style of its creator Bob Fosse. She and Fosse had a long relationship on and off stage; he starred in his show Dancin ‘and directed and co-choreographed a Broadway magazine celebrating his work. Their lives are explored in the acclaimed mini-series Fosse / Verdon, in which Reinking is played by Margaret Qualley.
In Fosse All That Jazz’s 1979 semi-autobiographical film, the issue of Reinking There’ll Be Some Changes Made captures the bright, steely darkness of his style, with shoulder-to-shoulder, wrist and push-ups. pelvis. Her career on screen included a famous role in Annie as the kind Grace Farrell, who helps the red-haired orphan settle in Daddy Warbucks mansion and shares with her the number I Think I ‘m Gonna Like It Here. She played one of the two women in Dudley Moore’s character in the bigamy comedy Micki and Maude (1984).
Born on November 10, 1949 in Seattle, Reinking took ballet classes as a child and studied with the San Francisco Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet. She arrived in New York as a teenager and danced at Radio City Music Hall before getting her first Broadway roles, including a part alongside Katharine Hepburn in Coco.
Reinking lived in Arizona with her husband, Peter Talbert, and her son, Christopher.
Chicago returned to London in 2018. “Every step is basically a word,” he said in an interview with the Guardian that year, “especially with musical theater, so you don’t do it for the dance, you’re promoting a story – and, more than that, a moral. You are driving a story. So the steps, as well as the lyrics and the music, are always combined to move forward in the story. They really are another form of language. “