Tony Tanner, an actor, director and choreographer who received a pair of Tony nominations for his work on the original 1982 Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has died. He was 88.
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
- 18/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tony Tanner, an actor, director and choreographer who received a pair of Tony nominations for his work on the original 1982 Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has died. He was 88.
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
Tanner died Sept. 8 of cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his husband, Henry Selvitelle, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Tanner also directed a 1981 adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey starring Amanda Plummer, Valerie French and Keith Reddin that was nominated for the Tony for best revival. He directed and choreographed Something’s Afoot in 1976 and Prince of Central Park, starring Jo Ann Worley, in ...
- 18/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Tony Tanner, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1982, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.
His death was confirmed on his official website. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Tanner, born in Middlesex, England, trained at the Webber-Douglas School in London and soon went on to establish an acting career in UK repertory companies and small London revues. The latter included an early sketch by a young playwright named Harold Pinter, a collaboration that would continue with Pinter’s celebrated The Birthday Party.
In the early 1960s, Tanner was cast in the West End production of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, later appearing as Littlechap in the 1966 film version.
Tanner moved to the U.S. to appear in the 1965 Broadway musical Half a Sixpence, and would later perform...
His death was confirmed on his official website. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Tanner, born in Middlesex, England, trained at the Webber-Douglas School in London and soon went on to establish an acting career in UK repertory companies and small London revues. The latter included an early sketch by a young playwright named Harold Pinter, a collaboration that would continue with Pinter’s celebrated The Birthday Party.
In the early 1960s, Tanner was cast in the West End production of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, later appearing as Littlechap in the 1966 film version.
Tanner moved to the U.S. to appear in the 1965 Broadway musical Half a Sixpence, and would later perform...
- 17/9/2020
- de Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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