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Corinne Marshall

Elizabeth Parkinson

Dance III

15 April 2014

Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman was born in Delaware in 1954. She began taking dance at the age of five

and attended the University of Delaware for theatre. After she moved to New York City, she

started touring with the original productions of Chicago and Sugar Babies. She also started to

choreograph on and off Broadway. In 1987 she choreographed Kander and Ebb’s Flora, the Red

Menace and Harold Prince, an audience member saw her work and contracted her to

choreograph dances for New York City Opera’s Don Giovanni.

In 1992, she won her first Tony for the choreography of Crazy for You. One of her

biggest breaks was when she choreographed the London revival of Agnes de Mille’s Oklahoma!

Instead of the original ballet choreographed by de Mille, Stroman choreographed her own dance

and it was highly acclaimed. In 2000, she received four Tony awards for choreographing and

directing the play Contact and The Music Man revival. She also had great success taking over for

her late husband with the choreography of The Producers which won a record breaking twelve

Tony Awards.

Susan Stroman was heavily inspired by Michael Bennet and Fred Astaire. She enjoyed

how she could see how their stories were told through voice and movement and music and dance

combined.

Work Cited

http://thechoreographercloset.weebly.com/susan-stroman.html