Steve Merritt was an American choreographer, born in 1945 in San Jose, who died in 1993.
Biography
Steve Thomas Merritt (January 17, 1945 – January 26, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.
Together with Nancy and Ronnie Horowitz and Mark Donnelly, Merritt created the musical Dream Street, which played in Las Vegas from 1983 to 1987. Merritt and Donnelly also conceived the Broadway-style format for the Chippendales show. In 1989, Merritt choreographed the opening number of the 61st Academy Awards presentation.
He was born as Steve Thomas Michael Ferraro in San Jose, California, in 1945. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s and studied dance under David Winter while working as a dancer on a local television show called The Farmer John Dance Show.
He created the Solid Gold Dancers and performed on Casey Kasem's weekly Top Forty Countdown television show.
Contemporaries
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