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Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1942) is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, “Cassie” from the musical A Chorus Line, for which she earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1976. She is also known for playing Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey on the Gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows from 1969 to 1970. IMDB Wikipedia -$250 Thousand 1940 1940-11-16 36 Saints (2013) Actress Dark Shadows (1966) Detroit Donna McKechnie Donna Mckechnie Net Worth Loving (1983) Michael Bennett Michigan Miscellaneous Crew November 16 Scorpio Soundtrack The Little Prince (1974) USA

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Donna McKechnie Quotes

• “Once, I was out of a job and I was really scared because I couldn’t pay the rent…I was cleaning the apartment, crying and feeling sorry for myself…The game show Jeopardy! (1964) was on [and] I heard my name. I looked up and I was the answer to a question. It was so ironic”.
• I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.

Donna McKechnie Important Facts

• Appearing with Carol Lawrence in the play “Girl’s Room” at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, California. [October 2008]
• Release of her autobiography, “Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life”. [September 2006]
• She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
• The night her father died, Sir Laurence Olivier was in the audience of a performance of “A Chorus Line”. Donna went on, claiming that the only way she could cope was to go on with the show. When she was doing a production of “Sweet Charitiy”, she learned that longtime friend and former husband Michael Bennett had died of AIDS. Again, she went on for the performance, claiming it helped her deal with his death and Michael would have wanted her to.
• The character of Maggie in “A Chorus Line” is partially based on her childhood.
• Won Broadway’s 1976 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for “A Chorus Line.”
• Trained in ballet at age 7, she ran away from home at the age of 15 to New York to become a dancer. She got a show on her very first audition.
• Met second husband, Michael Bennett, when both were dancers on the Hullabaloo (1965) variety show in the mid-60s. After he turned into a famous choreographer and director, she became a major Michael Bennett dancer, utilizing her talents in “Promises, Promises”, “Company” and, of course, “A Chorus Line” in which she won both the Tony and Drama Desk awards as the over-the-hill dancer “Cassie” who gets to sing the show-stopping “The Music and the Mirror”.
• Married once very briefly in 1965.
• Made her Broadway debut in 1961 in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”
• In the late 70s she was forced to abandon the limelight when she became nearly paralyzed by rheumatoid arthritis. Doctors told her she may never walk again, let alone dance. Thanks to intense physical therapy and proper nutrition, she battled back and miraculously returned to perform the “Chorus Line” role of Cassie again in 1983 at age 43.
• Has performed her one-woman singing/dancing show “Inside the Music” since 1997.
• Bob Fosse died shortly before the curtain went up on his last successful musical venture, the revival of “Sweet Charity”, starring Donna in the title role.
• 1958 Graduate of Troy High School, Troy, Michigan, USA.

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