Tony and Olivier Award-winning Bob Avian's dazzling life story,
Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey
, is a memoir in three acts. Act I reveals the origins of one of Broadway's legendary choreographers who appeared onstage with stars like Barbra Streisand and Mary Martin all before he was thirty. Act II includes teaching Katharine Hepburn how to sing and dance in
Coco
and working with Stephen Sondheim and Michael Bennett while helping to choreograph the original productions of
Company
and
Follies
. During this time, Avian won a Tony Award as the cochoreographer of
A Chorus Line
and produced the spectacular Tony Award-winning
Dreamgirls
. For a triumphant third act, Avian choreographed Julie Andrews's return to the New York stage, devised all of the musical staging for
Miss Saigon
Sunset Boulevard
, and directed
on Broadway. He worked with the biggest names on Broadway, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carol Burnett, Jennifer Holliday, Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch, and Glenn Close. Candid, witty, sometimes shocking, and always entertaining, here at last is the ultimate up-close and personal insider's view from a front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest, and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.