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Donna McKechnie
Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1942)〔PBS, Broadway, the American Musical, Bio, at ().〕 is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is 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'', for which she earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1976. She is also known for playing Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey on the Gothic soap opera, ''Dark Shadows'' from 1969 to 1970.
== Early life ==
McKechnie was born in 1942 in Pontiac, Michigan, the daughter of Bruce McKechnie and Carolyn Johnson. She began ballet classes at age five. Her earliest influence was the classic British ballet film ''The Red Shoes'' (1948), which prompted her, at age eight, to plan a career as a ballerina. She studied for many years at the Rose Marie Floyd School of Dance in Royal Oak. Despite her parents' strong misgivings, she moved to New York City when she was 17. Rejected after an audition for the American Ballet Theatre, she found employment in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall but walked off the job on the day of dress rehearsal to do summer stock at the Carousel Theatre in Framingham, Massachusetts.
After doing a Welch's Grape Juice commercial and the first L'eggs stockings commercial, she was cast in a touring company of ''West Side Story''. In 1961, she made her Broadway debut in ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'', where she met choreographer Bob Fosse and his wife, Gwen Verdon. A stint in a Philadelphia production of ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' (as Philia) was followed by the NBC music series ''Hullabaloo'', where she was a featured dancer and met Michael Bennett, who became a guiding force in her life and career.
She also appeared as Philia in the national tour of "Forum," starring Jerry Lester (Pseudolus), with Paul Hartman (Senex), Erik Rhodes (Marcus Lycus), Arnold Stang (Hysterium) and Edward Everett Horton (Erronius), produced by Martin Tahse.
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