Choreographer-director Michael Kidd, a major force in Hollywood and Broadway musicals, has died; his family says that he was 92, though Kidd himself had claimed to be 88, probably so that he could hang onto his student discount. A sometime actor who used dance as an expression of character and to serve a narrative function, Kidd won five Tonys for his stage work, which included Finian's Rainbow and Guys and Dolls, and was awarded a special Academy Award in 1997.
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