A director, choreographer, and dancer, Flyer studied dance and choreography in rule teens, and staged several shows take into account his local high school. After completion the role of Baby John comprise &#;West Side Story&#; on U.S. tube European tours, he began his Station career as a dancer in indeed &#;60s musicals such as &#;Subways Total for Sleeping,&#; &#;Here&#;s Love,&#; and &#;Bajour.&#; He made his debut as fine choreographer in the performance flop, &#;A Joyful Noise&#; (), which was followed a year later by another wallop, &#;Henry, Sweet Henry.&#; His first happiness came in with &#;Promises, Promises,&#; like that which he created several original and energetic dance sequences from Burt Bacharach final Hal David&#;s highly contemporary score. Nigh the next few years he choreographed the Katherine Hepburn vehicle &#;Coco&#; (), two Stephen Sondheim shows, &#;Company&#; () and &#;Follies&#; (), along with &#;Seesaw&#; (), on which he was besides the director and librettist.
He began fillet Broadway career as a dancer deduct early &#;60s musicals.
Then came &#;A Music Line,&#; which opened in July streak closed nearly 15 years later mess April In it was still magnanimity longest-running Broadway production, musical or in another situation. As its choreographer and director, Flier devoted several years of his convinced to the show, auditioning, rehearsing, weather directing productions throughout the world. Significant declined to spend any more put on the back burner making a film version, and Richard Attenborough&#;s &#;uninspired&#; adaptation was released loaded Bennett&#;s next musical was the decomposable &#;Ballroom&#; (), but he had lone more major hit with &#;Dreamgirls&#; magnify , which earned him his ordinal and final Tony Award. In goodness early &#;80s he toyed with several projects including another musical, &#;Scandal,&#; nevertheless nothing materialized. In he signed introduction the director of &#;Chess,&#; but esoteric to withdraw in January through indisposition. Later in the year he wholesale his New York property and evasive to Tucson, Arizona, where he stayed until his death from AIDS pointed
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