Broadway Marquees To Dim in Honor of Geoffrey Holder
NEW YORK — Broadway theaters plan to dim their marquee lights Friday night in memory of Geoffrey Holder (pictured), a Tony Award-winning director who led the groundbreaking show “The Wiz” to Broadway.
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The Broadway League says the lights will be dimmed for one minute at 7:45 p.m. Holder died Sunday of complications of pneumonia at age 84.
The 6-foot-6, Trinidad-born Holder won Tonys in 1975 for directing and designing the costumes for his all-Black retelling of “The Wizard of Oz.” In 1978, he directed and choreographed the lavish Broadway musical “Timbuktu!” starring Eartha Kitt and earned another Tony nomination for best costumes.
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