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My brother Patrick alerted me to the death of soprano Martina Arroyo (age 90). She made exactly 200 appearances at the Met, including three opening nights. She was a frequent guest on Carson's Tonight Show and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2013. Her Times obit included a cute story about her Met debut - - she had won the Auditions on the Air and made her debut in the small role of The Celestial Voice in Verdi's Don Carlo. Her mother was at the performance and missed Mart

The 1992 Tony for Best Choreography went to Susan Stroman for Crazy For You, a peppy, colorful Gershwin musical. One of the other nominees was Terry John Bates for Dancing at Lughnasa, a sweet little Irish drama. Diva: Crazy For You Mensch: Dancing at Lughnasa Here's the Crazy For You sequence from the Tonys: I didn't find any footage of the original Broadway Dancing at Lughnasa so here's the preview from the 1998 movie starring the inevitable Meryl Streep.