Happy 70th birthday today to the multi-talented, multi award-winning Tommy Tune.
And what talents! A six-foot-six dancer, singer, choreographer and director, in his four-decade career Tommy has appeared on stage in such spectacular musical productions as SeeSaw, Irma La Douce, My One And Only and Bye Bye Birdie, and his own revues. His big screen credits include Hello Dolly with MegaBabs and, most impressively, The Boyfriend starring alongside Twiggy. He also masterminded the revival of Grease as a stage production, which went on to international success.
Tommy Tune is open about his sexuality, and in his autobiography "Footnotes" he talks about the men in his life, losing friends and lovers to AIDS, and the difficulties of growing up gay in Texas.
And yes, that is his real name - evidently he was destined to go into showbiz...
Tommy Tune biography in the GLBTQ Encyclopedia
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