{"id":157773,"date":"2018-03-21T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157773"},"modified":"2018-03-21T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T03:02:35","slug":"tony-winner-sammy-williams-from-a-chorus-line-dies-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/21\/tony-winner-sammy-williams-from-a-chorus-line-dies-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony winner Sammy Williams from &#8216;A Chorus Line&#8217; dies at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157776\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29511026_1995311437347501_8405967957162721280_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157776\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29511026_1995311437347501_8405967957162721280_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Williams (Photo: The Fascinating World of the Movie Soundtracks and Hollywood\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29511026_1995311437347501_8405967957162721280_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29511026_1995311437347501_8405967957162721280_n-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Williams (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/javyFWMS\/photos\/p.1995311434014168\/1995311434014168\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=Abr0AOF2tg0hklsnCzeH5qehL0bGmyRKnzxNMAQrAhOYSWq5BZPNu4X4QfDUaDg9oWc8pANnyjH_3LGgDga8GdAyWNvbpRHkaqJSZr9mx1oFIzN1N-2FGrFT_W02Bww7NkDDRuj0uzjlcvc2_BkmBwAgkD2_Nd_ilV51HMZmSInD0jrdrGV3DhhqYKk3T2mT9mNe8H-Ceo39I74Oo6hy5Y-Drhl_fY8dbV5DtblnEvhKc3PjazPRa0ehgEgXr4rIov691x1gtZsvrjp1GegN8yfpkqyCTaw62M2Rhx4JuxQX_q_yeX0Wn67XNut2hFn6t8JdsdDC-N6K2Xea8Z4CIn6G2gGSxKnYydW8DTfpu4JW9AR3YpbRu7F5gnSDGo0avK9Ju73X75xBIPUzdxu_MiqJvfOoLJfcHzG3PyEDJYlI63KyooL9bTofN40KRmtH-B9zhcv8bO0JjJKHjps5Z0nw&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/javyFWMS\/\">The Fascinating World of the Movie Soundtracks and Hollywood\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Sammy Williams, who won a Tony Award in the original Broadway production of \u201cA Chorus Line,\u201d has died. He was 69.<\/p>\n<p>Family spokeswoman and friend Brandee Barnaby says Williams died of cancer Saturday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Williams won best featured actor in a musical in 1976 for the role of Paul in \u201cA Chorus Line.\u201d The pioneering musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch told of the inner lives of actors auditioning for a big show. Paul was a young Puerto Rican performer starting to feel comfortable about being gay.<\/p>\n<p>Williams had other earlier smaller parts on Broadway in \u201cApplause\u201d and \u201cThe Happy Time.\u201d He was later a choreographer, director and actor in Los Angeles, who appeared in \u201cFollies\u201d at the Ahmanson Theatre in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Sammy Williams, who won a Tony Award in the original Broadway production of \u201cA Chorus Line,\u201d has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48839,4209,48840,11034],"class_list":["post-157773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-a-chorus-line","tag-broadway","tag-sammy-williams","tag-tony-award","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}