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Christopher started dancing at 8years old and as a performer danced in Broadway and National Tours of Cats (Mistoffelees), Fosse, How To Succeed in Business .
Christopher Gattelli received the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography of Newsies.

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Cher Bio-Musical Recruits Tony Winner Christopher Gattelli as Choreographer

The in-the-works Cher bio-musical has added Christopher Gattelli to the creative team as choreographer, according to an Equity casting notice. Gattelli, a Tony winner for Newsies, is currently represented on Broadway by War Paint.

The casting notice seeks actresses for three roles—Babe, Lady and Star—each representing the Oscar winner at a different moment in her career. A recent reading featured Tony winner Lena Hall, Olivier winner Lesli Margherita and Jillian Mueller.

As previously announced, the Cher musical is set to feature a book by Rick Elice with Avenue Q Tony nominee Jason Moore onboard to direct. The show chronicles the life of the music legend and includes hits like “I Got You Babe,” “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” and “If I Could Turn Back Time."

Cher is the only artist in history to reach #1 on the Billboard charts in each of the past six decades. The diva has one Broadway credit; she starred as Sissy in

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Tony Award-Winning Choreographer Christopher Gattelli on His Life on Broadway During a Rehearsal of "The Cher Show"

Teal Wicks, Stephanie J. Block, and Micaela Diamond in The Cher Show at Broadway in Chicago's Oriental Theatre; Photo: Joan Marcus

When I slipped in to the back of studio C on the 12^th floor of the Pearl Studios in Midtown Manhattan, eight men and one woman were running through a partnering phrase, making several attempts to perfect an overhead lift. This was “Dark Lady,” a sequence in the new musical TheCher Show. Here the dark lady, portrayed deftly by dancer Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, channels Cher’s struggles for freedom and self-realization during a rivalry between her life partners Sonny Bono and Greg Altman.

Currently in previews, The Cher Show opens on December 3^rdat the Neil Simon Theater. The biographical musical replete with vibrant costumes by Bob Mackie is the most recent Broadway piece by Christopher Gattelli, one of the most prolific and versatile choreographers working today.

“My head is exploding with the research,” said Ga

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Christopher has won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, Calloway and is a 3 time Lortel winner. Best known for Newsies, he has been represented on Broadway 16 times with productions that include The Cher Show, My Fair Lady, SpongeBob Squarepants, The King and I, South Pacific, War Paint, Amazing Grace, Casa Valentina, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, 13, and High Fidelity. Off-Broadway includes Dogfight, Altar Boyz, Bat Boy: The Musical, tick,tick…BOOM!, Adrift in Macao, 10 Million Miles. West End: The Kind and I, Sunday In The Park With George, South Pacific, Silence The Musical – off West End. As director/choreographer Silence: The Musical, Departure Lounge at The Public, In Your Arms, Radio Girl, and the world premiere of Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter. Film: Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar! (With Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson) , Isn’t it Romantic? (With Rebel Wilson and Liam Hemsw