Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap Theatrical Performance 2009-10-06 Temple University World Premiere October 6-10, 2009 Produced by Dance Affiliates's artistic director Randy Swartz and Directed by Ann Marie De Angelo (former principal dancer and associate artistic director of Joffrey Ballet), and created and staged by Tony Waag (artistic director of the American Tap Foundation), and starring Marurice Hines, with an all-star cast including Chloe Arnold, Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards and Joseph Webb, with live and recorded music, and film projections showing a plethora of legendary tappers at their best. This show pays homage to tap's leading ambassador Gregory Hines, and the great legends that preceded him-- Bill Robinson, John Bubbles, Nicholas Brothers, Honi Coles, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Ray Bolger, Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Slyde and the Copasetics, as well at tap's leading ladies. "Thank You Gregory" consists of 27 fast-paced sections choreographed by Chloe Arnold, Cholly Atkins, Brenda Bufalino, Charles Honi Coles, the Copasetics, Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, Donovan Helma, Heather Holohan, Brent McBeth, Susan Nase, Leonard Reed, Tony Waag, and Joseph Webb. The Philadelphia Inquirer called "Thank You Gregory" "a joyful celebration of the amazingly varied, soul-stirring thing called rhythm." Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts American Tap Dance Foundation: American Tap Dance Foundation. http://www.atdf.org/; http://www.atdf.org/history.html (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.2641