Warren Carlyle (Kiss Me Kate) is a British director and choreographer, nominated this season for Best Choreography. He received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Director of a Musical for the 2009 revival of Finian's Rainbow. Carlyle most recently directed and choreographed the Broadway musical After Midnight, Chaplin and Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway; Choreographed On The 20th Century, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, and the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies.
Warren is a big part of the Tony race this season (and my money is on him), but he still took time out of his busy rehearsal and cocktail party schedule to sit down with me and talk about:
- How he was a real-life Billy Elliot and why his Mum got him started on his journey.
- What made him hang up his dance belt and turn to a life of choreography.
- The process of creating a number . . . and how he knows when it is working and when it isn’t . . . .
- How he got “Too Darn Hot” from an 8 to a 10!
- What it’s like working with stars like Hugh Jackman and Bette Midler.
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