{"id":65435,"date":"2023-12-30T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/12\/30\/maurice-hines-tap-dance-icon-dies-at-80\/"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:03:56","slug":"maurice-hines-tap-dance-icon-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/12\/30\/maurice-hines-tap-dance-icon-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Hines, Tap Dance Icon, Dies at\u00a080"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tMaurice Hines, who appeared alongside his younger brother, Gregory Hines, in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s The Cotton Club<\/em>, has died. He was 80.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Broadway dancer, choreographer and actor passed away on Friday (Dec. 29) of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J., according to his cousin and representative, Richard Nurse, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHines received a Tony Award nomination in 1986 for best actor in a musical for a musical for Uptown\u2026 It\u2019s Hot<\/em> and was featured again on Broadway in 2006\u2019s Hot Feet<\/em>. Both productions were conceived, directed and choreographed by Maurice.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on Dec. 13, 1943, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Hines studied tap with Henry LeTang in NYC and was fascinated by the acrobatics of the Nicholas Brothers. He made his professional debut at around 6 years old alongside brother Gregory as the tap-dancing Hines Kids on Broadway in 1954, according to THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey later became known as the Hines Brothers and then Hines, Hines & Dad after their father, Maurice Sr., joined in 1963. The trio became regulars at New York\u2019s Apollo Theater, and also performed in clubs across the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Gregory went solo in the early 1970s, Maurice joined the national tour of Guys and Dolls<\/em> and reunited with his brother for Eubie!<\/em> on Broadway in 1979. In 1982, Maurice stepped in for Gregory in the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies<\/em> and he also appeared in the national tour of Jelly\u2019s Last Jam<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe siblings later joined forces as the feuding Williams Brothers in Coppola\u2019s 1984 crime drama The Cotton Brothers<\/em>, which also starred Richard Gere and Diane Lane.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2019 documentary Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back<\/em> highlights a falling out between the Hines brothers, who didn\u2019t speak for 10 years \u201cfor reasons that Maurice refuses to discuss to this day. He provides no explanation in the film, but instead takes every opportunity to praise Gregory and say how much he loved him,\u201d according to a THR<\/em> review<\/a> of the film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNonetheless, the lingering emotional pain of their rift is deeply evident in such moments as Maurice sadly remembering that they didn\u2019t even speak to each at their mother\u2019s wedding, to her great distress. The film includes footage of Gregory\u2019s Tony Award acceptance speech [in 1992] in which he pointedly thanks everyone in his family except his brother. He even takes pains, when mentioning his father, to add \u2018Sr.\u2019 so nobody misunderstands.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe brothers made up before Gregory died of cancer at age 57 in 2003, according to THR.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tMaurice is survived by his nephew, Zach, and niece, Daria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maurice Hines, who appeared alongside his younger brother, Gregory Hines, in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s The Cotton Club, has died. He was 80. The Broadway dancer, choreographer and actor passed away on Friday (Dec. 29) of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J., according to his cousin and representative, Richard Nurse, The Hollywood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}