01/22/2023
oday, Alabaster Box COPA features the great dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder, born on August 1, 1930, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family.
He is most famous for his role as the heavy "Baron Samedi" in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973), Roger Moore's first turn as 007.
He won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his staging of the Broadway musical "The Wiz" (1975), the all-African American retelling of "The Wizard of Oz." He also won the Tony for best costume design (he would be nominated again for a Tony for best costume design for the original 1978 Broadway musical "Timbuktu!", which he also directed and choreographed). As a choreographer he has created dance pieces for many companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Here is one of our favorite videos of Mr. Holder talking about the Wiz...
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