Maurice Hines was the older brother of dancer Gregory Hines.
10 Facts About Maurice Hines
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Maurice Hines made his Broadway debut in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954.
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Maurice Hines directed and choreographed Havana Night in Cuba, an all-Latino production of The Red Shoes in the Dominican Republic, and created the revue Broadway Soul Jam to inaugurate an entertainment complex in the Netherlands.
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Maurice Hines directed and choreographed music videos, including one for Quincy Jones.
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Maurice Hines was the first African American to direct a production at Radio City Music Hall.
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Maurice Hines played the lead role in Washington, DC's Arena Stage production of the Duke Ellington-inspired musical Sophisticated Ladies at the historic Lincoln Theatre in April and May 2010, featuring teenaged tap-dancing brothers John and Leo Manzari.
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Maurice Hines conceived, directed, and choreographed Yo Alice, an urban hip-hop fantasy written by Lee Summers and staged for a workshop in 2000 and a reading in 2007 at the Triad Theatre.
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Originally commissioned by Arena Stage in 2004, Maurice Hines conceived and directed Ella, First Lady of Song, a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, for whom he and his late brother Gregory Maurice Hines had opened in Las Vegas.
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In 2019, John Carluccio directed the feature film Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back, a biographical documentary about Hines.
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Maurice Hines died in Englewood, New Jersey, on December 29,2023, at the age of 80.