One day at the Standard Theater in Philadelphia, I looked onstage and I thought, 'They're having fun up there; I'd like to do something like that'.
"Tony Award for Best Choreography/Best Choreography" 1989 Black and Blue (musical)/Black and Blue
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"Fayard Antonio Nicholas" (October 20, 1914 – January 24, 2006) was an United States/American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger his brother Harold Nicholas/Harold made up the Nicholas Brothers tap-dance duo, who starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943 film)/Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and Hard Four (2007). The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th Century-Fox musicals Down Argentine Way (1940), Sun Valley Serenade (1941), and Orchestra Wives (1942). Fayard Nicholas was a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
Fayard Nicholas was inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame/National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in 2001, along with his brother.
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