14 Facts About Buzz Miller

Vernal "Buzz" Miller was an American dancer who was equally at home on Broadway and in contemporary ballet and modern dance.

Buzz Miller was honorably discharged from military service after being injured in combat.

Once he began training, Miller soon showed an unusual talent for jazz dance and he quickly found employment as a professional dancer.

Buzz Miller toured night clubs and cabarets in London and Paris with Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers and in cities around the United States with the Jack Cole Dancers.

Buzz Miller reprised his dancing role in The Pajama Game in the Hollywood film made in 1957.

In 1955 and 1956 Buzz Miller was a guest artist with Roland Petit's Ballets de Paris, with a leading role opposite Zizi Jeanmaire in La Chambre, a detective-story ballet with a scenario by Georges Simenon, and a featured role in Les Belles Damnees, with Violette Verdy.

Buzz Miller danced in the first Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, in 1957, as a representative of contemporary American culture in the performing arts.

In 1968, Buzz Miller choreographed and associate directed Julie Bovasso's The Moon Dreamers at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.

Buzz Miller was then associate director for Bovasso's plays at La MaMa in 1971,1974, and 1975.

In 1978, Buzz Miller was a founding member and reconstructionist of the American Dance Machine, a company and briefly a school devoted to preserving the great dance numbers from Broadway and television shows.

Buzz Miller was responsible for restaging Carol Haney's choreography for "Me and My Girl," first presented on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1962.

Buzz Miller taught master dance classes at many universities in the United States.

Buzz Miller was regarded as one of the leading teachers of jazz dance in the country.

Openly gay for most of his life, Buzz Miller had a five-year liaison with Jerome Robbins in the 1950s.