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Artist
Donna McKechnie
12+ albums
Musical theatreUSA
about
Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1940) is an American musical theater dancer, singer. actress and choreographer. She is perhaps best known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, "Cassie" from the musical A Chorus Line. McKechnie was part of Bennett's group therapy-style workshops that evolved into the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, in which she portrayed Cassie, a character based in great part on herself. She danced her third famous Bennett-McKechnie number, The Music and the Mirror, in which the vocal sections were tailored to her unusually large range. Her performance earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The role of Maggie was also based on her life. She married Bennett in 1976, but after only a few months they separated and eventually divorced, remaining good friends until his death from AIDS in 1987. In 1980, McKechnie was diagnosed with arthritis and told she never would dance again. She pursued various physical, psychological, and holistic healing remedies, and was well enough to return to the Broadway company of A Chorus Line in 1986. During the remainder of the 1980s she also toured in Sweet Charity and Annie Get Your Gun, and she appeared in a London revival of Can-Can. In 2002, McKechnie starred in the pre-Broadway production of the Jerry Herman musical revue Showtune. In recent years, she has toured periodically in her one-woman show Inside the Mus
top songs
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The Music And The Mirror
3,3672Company - Original Broadway Cast: You Could Drive a Person Crazy
2543You Never Know
1104Losing My Mind
895In Buddy's Eyes
726You Could Drive a Person Crazy
687Be Happy - Original 1974 Motion Picture Soundtrack "The Little Prince"
598You Never Had It So Good
589Company - Original Broadway Cast: You Could Drive A Person Crazy - Voice
4410Be Happy
43albums
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A Chorus Line
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A Chorus Line - 40th Anniversary Celebration (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Company (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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A Chorus Line: Original Broadway Cast 1975
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A Chorus Line (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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A Chorus Line (Original Broadway Cast)
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A Chorus Line: Original Broadway Cast 1975
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A Chorus Line: Original Broadway Cast (Soundtrack)
Same Place: Another Time
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Inside the Music
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Company - Original Broadway Cast
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A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast]