Scott Wise

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Scott Wise is a Tony Award-winning performer, director and choreographer.

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[edit] Early life

Although Wise is a life-trained dancer, he first became seriously interested in dance as a career while studying to become an accountant.[1] He performed with the Joffrey II, then moved into musical theater in the early 1980s after auditioning for A Chorus Line "as a dare more than anything."[2]

[edit] Career

Wise won his Tony Award in 1989 in the category of Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the dance revue Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Wise played multiple roles, including "Riff" in West Side Story and "Chip" in On the Town. Wise was nominated twice more in the same category for his performances in State Fair and Fosse.

In addition to playing the "Drill Sergent" and "Sergent O'Leary" in the rock ballet, Movin' Out, Wise was also Twyla Tharp's assistant choreographer and assistant director. Wise has also choreographed the Off-Broadway musical A Class Act, a regional production of The Who's Tommy and the national tour of Leader of the Pack.

[edit] Personal life

Wise is married to fellow dancer Elizabeth Parkinson (they were both in Fosse and Movin' Out) and they have one son together. Wise also has a daughter from a previous marriage to dancer and choreographer Kiel Junius.

In October of 2006, Wise and Parkinson opened up their studio, FineLine Theatre Arts, in New Milford, Connecticut.

[edit] Theatre credits


Preceded by
Bill McCutcheon
for Anything Goes		 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
1989
for Jerome Robbins' Broadway		 Succeeded by
Michael Jeter
for Grand Hotel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jennifer Dunning, "Nine Who Have the Certain Something", accessed 2007-12-26.
  2. ^ "Scott Wise", accessed 2007-12-26.

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