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| | Playbill News: Onna White, Groundbreaking Broadway Choreographer, Dies at 83 |
 | | Onna White, who found a quarter century of work in the male-dominated world of Broadway choreography, died April 8 of natural causes, according to her daughter Jeanne Douglas. |
 | | White collected eight Tony Award nominations over her long career, the first for her choreography of the classic musical The Music Man in 1958, with its memorably humorous "Marian the Librian" number, and the last for 1977’s I Love My Wife, one of her final assignments. |
 | | White, some health-inducing exercises a doctor prescribed for her led her by chance to the basic movements of dancing. |
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