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Article Excerpt
When the teenaged Donna McKechnie came to New York to become a dancer in 1959, she believed "all that silly stuff" that everyone in the chorus believes: "I've gotta get out of the chorus. I've gotta be a star by the time I'm 21."
Then, she says, "You're 21, and you say, 'I'll give it another year.'"
McKechnie gave it more than a dozen, in the process working with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, and becoming the dance muse for an up-and-coming choreographer named Michael Bennett. A strikingly crisp, yet fluid dancer, she moved first into dance solos, then into featured parts. And in 1975, it happened. She was handed the career-making role of Cassie, the not-quite star who wants to return to the ensemble, in Bennett's musical phenomenon, A...
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