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21 Facts About Tony Charmoli

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Tony Charmoli was an American dancer, choreographer, and director.

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Tony Charmoli began dancing on Broadway in such shows as Make Mine Manhattan but soon began choreographing for television with Stop the Music in 1949.

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Tony Charmoli went on to direct and choreograph for some of the biggest stars including Dinah Shore, Lily Tomlin, Danny Kaye, Julie Andrews, Cyd Charisse, Shirley MacLaine, Mitzi Gaynor, Lucille Ball, and others.

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On Broadway, Tony Charmoli choreographed Ankles Aweigh and Woman of the Year with Lauren Bacall.

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Tony Charmoli was born in 1921 in Mountain Iron, Minnesota as the youngest of nine siblings.

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Tony Charmoli was an operations officer in the 43rd Fighter Squadron in the US Air Force in Panama and organized entertainment shows for them, while Saunders was sent to Europe and became a secretary to Gen.

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Tony Charmoli choreographed Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden in 1962, as well as Shirley MacLaine's Broadway revue in 1976.

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In 1948, Tony Charmoli danced in Make Mine Manhattan, but gave the part to Bob Fosse when the show toured nationally.

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Tony Charmoli found Fosse work as a dancer on the TV shows he was working on when Fosse returned from the tour.

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10.

Tony Charmoli worked in 1949 as choreographer on ABC television's Stop the Music.

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11.

Tony Charmoli then joined NBC-TV's Your Hit Parade in 1950, and in 1956 won his first Emmy, for his work on the show.

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12.

Tony Charmoli subsequently moved to Los Angeles to take a position on Dinah Shore's television variety program.

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At that time, Tony Charmoli continued to work on directing for television, where he directed programs as the famous 1977 production of The Nutcracker starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, which was nominated for two Emmys.

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Tony Charmoli directed and choreographed nearly all of Mitzi Gaynor's television specials in the 1970s as well as two of Shirley MacLaine's.

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15.

Tony Charmoli worked many times with Sid and Marty Krofft, directing all seventeen episodes of Lidsville and The Bugaloos, respectively, as well as their TV special Fol-de-Rol.

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16.

Tony Charmoli directed the first two years of Star Search, and several years of Circus of the Stars, as well as John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together, winning the Directors Guild Award.

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Tony Charmoli directed several Bob Hope specials, more than twenty televised beauty pageants, and the short-lived summer replacement series The Keane Brothers Show.

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18.

Tony Charmoli was the recipient of three Emmy Awards, plus twelve other Emmy nominations.

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19.

Tony Charmoli died in August 2020 at his home in the Hollywood Hills at the age of 99.

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20.

Tony Charmoli is considered one of the top television choreographers in history.

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21.

Tony Charmoli felt the television cameras needed to be just as involved with choreography as the dancers, so he always took time to block those as well.

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