Matt West is a
choreographer and
actor
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. He choreographed the first
Broadway
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production of ''
Beauty and the Beast
''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...
''.
He won a
Drama-Logue Award for his work on that show.
His acting credits include the role of
Bobby
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in the Broadway musical ''
A Chorus Line
''A Chorus Line'' is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.
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''. He reprised this role in the
1985 movie version directed by
Richard Attenborough.
West co-produced and choreographed ''
Lestat'', a
musical based on the ''
Vampire Lestat'' stories by
Anne Rice
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She was best known for her series of novels '' The Vampire Chronicles''. ...
.
References
External links
Playbill Bio*
Matt West at broadwayworld.com
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American choreographers
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