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Broadway babies.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-05
Format: Online - approximately 756 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Broadway babies.(Romance in Dance)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
The first time I saw Dormeshia was the day I got my first pair of tap shoes, says Omar Edwards. It was 1989 and he was 13. Twelve-year-old Dormeshia Sumbry was dancing in the Broadway cast of Black and Blue, and Omar took the train nightly from Queens to hang around the show's tap-dance stars, Jimmy Slyde and Buster Brown. From the night his aunt (Savion Glover's mom) promised him that pair of shoes, his professional and personal passions have been intertwined.

While Sumbry-Edwards distinctly remembers Omar (who says he was "a nerd--this goofy guy with glasses") from backstage at Black and Blue, the experience was not love at first sight. "I...

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