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Tommy Tune est un Acteur Américain né le 28 février 1939 à Wichita Falls (Etats-Unis)

Tommy Tune

Tommy Tune
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Nom de naissance Thomas James Tune
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 28 février 1939 (85 ans) à Wichita Falls (Etats-Unis)
Récompenses National Medal of Arts

Thomas James "Tommy" Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won ten Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.

Biographie

Early years
Tune was born in Texas to oil rig worker, horse trainer and restaurateur Jim Tune and Eva Mae Clark. He attended Lamar High School in Houston and the Methodist-affiliated Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas. He studied dance under Patsy Swayze in Houston. He also studied dance with Kit Andree in Boulder, Colorado. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Texas at Austin in 1962 and his Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of Houston. Tune later moved to New York to start his career.


Career
In 1965, Tune made his Broadway debut as a performer in the musical Baker Street. His first Broadway directing and choreography credits were for the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1978. He has gone on to direct and/or choreograph eight Broadway musicals. He directed a new musical titled Turn of the Century, which premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on September 19, 2008 and closed on November 2, 2008.

Off-Broadway, Tune has directed The Club and Cloud Nine. Tune toured the United States in the Sherman Brothers musical Busker Alley in 1994-1995 and in the stage adaptation of the film Dr. Dolittle in 2006.

Tune is the only person to win Tony Awards in the same categories (Best Choreography and Best Direction of a Musical) in consecutive years (1990 and 1991), and the first to win in four categories. He has won ten Tony Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

On television, Tune was a recurring guest star and assistant choreographer from 1969-70 on The Dean Martin Show and its summer replacement series, Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers.

Tune appeared in a 1975 TV special titled Welcome to the "World" along with Lucie Arnaz and Lyle Waggoner to promote the opening of Space Mountain at Walt Disney World.

Tune's film credits include Ambrose in Hello, Dolly! (1969), and The Boy Friend with Twiggy (1971). Tune released his first record album, Slow Dancing, in 1997 on the RCA label, featuring a collection of his favorite romantic ballads.

In 1999, he made his Las Vegas debut as the star of EFX at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Tune staged an elaborate musical entitled Paparazzi for the Holland America Line cruise ship the Oosterdam in 2003. He works often with The Manhattan Rhythm Kings, for example touring in a Big Band revue entitled Song and Dance Man and White Tie and Tails (2002).

Tune has been performing in his musical revue, Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance, in Boston in April 2008 and continuing in various venues from Bethesda, Maryland in January 2009 to California in February 2009.

The Tommy Tune Awards, presented annually by Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) honor excellence in high school musical theatre in Houston. The current home of the Tommy Tune Awards is the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas.

In 2013, he appeared as Argyle Austero in the revived fourth season of Arrested Development on Netflix.

In 2015, he made a return to the New York stage as a featured performer in City Center's popular series Encores! He was featured in two numbers in LADY, BE GOOD; his first act number was the Gershwin standard "Fascinatin' Rhythm."


Personal life
When not performing, he used to run an art gallery in Tribeca that featured his own work. As of 2014 it is no longer open. In Tune's 1997 memoir Footnotes, he writes about what drives him as a performer, choreographer and director, offers stories about being openly gay in the world of theatre, his partners David Wolfe and Michael Stuart, about his days with Twiggy in My One and Only and meeting and working with his many idols.

Before leaving Texas in the 1960s for a Broadway career in New York, Tune worked with Mary Highsmith, mother of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, at the Point Summer Theatre. In a letter to her daughter, Highsmith referred to Tune as her "adopted boy" whom she called "Romano." Tune later praised Highsmith for helping him develop his talents: "She was an opening for me; she opened a little bit of my tight fabric so that I might peer through."

Le plus souvent avec

Ken Russell
Ken Russell
(1 films)
Ernest Lehman
Ernest Lehman
(1 films)
Jeannie Epper
Jeannie Epper
(1 films)
Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Tommy Tune (3 films)

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The Boy Friend, 2h17
Réalisé par Ken Russell
Genres Comédie, Musical, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Sexualité, Théâtre, Homosexualité, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, Adaptation d'une comédie musicale, LGBT, LGBT
Acteurs Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Barbara Windsor
Rôle Tommy
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Une troupe de music-hall joue dans un théâtre de Broadway. Mais on apprend juste avant une représentation que la vedette, bêtement blessée au pied, est partie à l'hôpital : l'assistante doit la remplacer séance tenante.
Hello, Dolly !, 2h22
Réalisé par Gene Kelly, Richard Lang
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Musical, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, Adaptation d'une comédie musicale, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Edra Jean Peaker, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, J. Pat O'Malley
Rôle Ambrose Kemper
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New York, 1890. Veuve de l'amour de sa vie, Dolly Gallagher Levi, marieuse de son état, estime avoir assez pleuré et souhaite rentrer dans le monde mais surtout épouser en secondes noces Horace Vandegelder, épicier prospère et bourru en diable. Lui aussi aspire à convoler mais ne songe pas à Dolly dont il a justement engagé les talents professionnels. Intrigante et roublarde, Dolly ruine une à une les candidatures qu'elle avait préalablement soumises à Horace. Tout pour rafler la timbale quitte à faire au passage le bonheur des commis épiciers, Cornélius et Barnabé ainsi que celui d'Ermengarde, la nièce d'Horace. Finalement, aux portes de la chapelle, Dolly Vandegelder vous saluera bien.