[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #502, aired 1986-11-11 [PAR] Ehrich Weiss escaped the shackles of his name by changing it to this ... Gwen 
Verdon kicked her way to fame doing this in the 1953 musical of the same name
... [DOC] [TLE] Gwen Verdon - Wikipedia [PAR] Gwyneth Evelyn Gwen Verdon (January 13, 1925  October 18, 2000) was an 
American ... With flaming red hair and a quaver in her voice, Verdon was a 
critically ... June 23, 1978), British immigrants to the United States by way of 
Canada. Her ... cast her as the second female lead in Cole Porter's musical Can-
Can (1953),... [DOC] [TLE] Bob Fosse - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse (June 23, 1927  September 23, 1987) was an 
American dancer, ... Verdon won her first Tony Award for Best Actress in Damn 
Yankees (she had won previously for best ... (Fosse won the Tony for Best 
Direction of a Musical in 1973 with Pippin.) .... His third wife was dancer/actress 
Gwen Verdon. [DOC] [TLE] Gwen Verdon, Redhead Who High-Kicked Her Way to Stardom ... [PAR] Oct 19, 2000 ... Gwen Verdon, Redhead Who High-Kicked Her Way to Stardom, Dies at 75 ... In 
1953 she auditioned for the Cole Porter musical ''Can-Can,'' and won a ... 
pounding in to tell her that the audience was chanting her name and... [DOC] [TLE] Gwen Verdon - Biography - IMDb [PAR] Her name was Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon, and she was the only Broadway star ... 
Cole cast Gwen in his show "Alive and Kicking", but the show was a bitter ... 
However, 1953 brought 28-year-old Gwen a big break in the Cole Porter musical 
"Can ... "Damn Yankees!," a role she recreated in the film version of the same 
name.,... [DOC] [TLE] Performers - Broadway: The American Musical - PBS [PAR] Her thrilling performance as the (very) high-kicking Claudine gained her a Tony 
Award, ... A year later, Gwen Verdon received the 1993 New Dramatists Lifetime 
... Stritch was inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame in 1995, and two years later 
... film of the same name directed by Andre Cayatte and starring Michele Morgan. [DOC] [TLE] Who's Who in Musicals: T to Wa - Musicals101.com [PAR] This handsome baritone won fame on Broadway playing young military men in ... 
She made her New York vaudeville debut at Hammerstein's Victoria in 1904. ... 
with songs like "Its All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It" and "I Don't 
Care. .... (1953), Verdon starred in a triumphant series of musicals 
choreographed by... [DOC] [TLE] Scarlett Johansson Faces Broadway, Tom Hanks Face on Broadway ... [PAR] Jan 20, 2013 ... Scarlett Johansson made her sophomore debut on Broadway, ... My apologies 
for doing this to you: first hour of 2-hour season 2 ... I know people who feel the 
same way. Lyn Gardner: Is it too easy to kick musical theatre? ... Cole Porter's 
Can-Can, 1953 Broadway musical that made Gwen Verdon a star,... [DOC] [TLE] Jack Cole (1911  1974) - Dance Heritage Coalition [PAR] Cole's name lacks the recognition that his ... for his 1953 Broadway show Kismet 
by ... But Cole was on his way. ... paean to the big-band tune of the same ... 
Hollywood movie-musical choreographies ... grew up dancing in her family's G-
rated ... Gwen Verdon, Marge Champion, and Ann ... I was wasting a lot of time 
doing. [DOC] [TLE] Damn Yankees - Light Opera Works [PAR] May 6, 2014 ... To hold its own on this brave new Broadway, a musical comedy had to offer more 
... heralding a new dance craze, were outno one was doing the Varsity Drag. ... 
Lola, it was Fosse who went to bat for the rising young Gwen Verdon. .... On my 
way to Light Opera Works' "Damn Yankees" Saturday night

Question: Gwen Verdon kicked her way to fame doing this in the 1953 musical of the same name
Answer: Can-Can