Debbie Allen has yet another reason to celebrate her illustrious career - she will soon add an honorary Oscar to her ...

How many Broadway shows has Debbie Allen been in ... by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Sweet Charity, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Drama Desk Awards ...

Debbie Allen played Anita in that production and ... A few years later she wowed me again playing the lead role in Sweet Charity, which resulted in yet another Tony Award nomination.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Bebe Neuwirth won. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Debbie Allen was nominated but did not win.

CBS broadcasts The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors—celebrating Tony nominee Debbie Allen (Sweet Charity) and Tony winner Dick Van Dyke (Bye Bye Birdie) for lifetime artistic achievements—June 6.

The Tony-winning 1986 Broadway revival of Sweet Charity offered a scrupulous ... was profitable as long as its first leading lady, Debbie Allen, was present, but it faltered when Ann Reinking ...

But Debbie Allen, the 71-year-old dancer ... By the time Allen landed the title role in the 1986 Broadway production of “Sweet Charity,” choreographed by Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, her ...

To say that Debbie Allen is an icon would be an ... self when she was studying at the Ailey School waiting for Allen after her Sweet Charity Broadway performance. “She has pushed in all sorts ...

Allen is best known for her performances as Anita in West Side Story and Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity on Broadway, and as Lydia Grant on "Fame." She is a member of the President's ...

Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen have always been supportive of each other’s creative pursuits Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen were surrounded by arts and culture since ...