2015 Astaire Award Nominees Announced Today; Joel Grey, Harvey Weinstein Among Honorees

Broadway legend Joel Grey (CABARET, WICKED) and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein (FINDING NEVERLAND) will be the honorees at this year's Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. The gala evening celebrates the 2015 season's outstanding dance and choreography on Broadway and film.

The event will take place on June 1, 2015 at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, with this year's nominations announced today, May 4, at Central Park.

Tony winning actor Joel Grey will be this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Academy Award winner Harvey Weinstein will be acknowledged for his Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre and Film.

Joel Grey, who won a Tony Award for his role as the Emcee in the original 1967 Broadway production of CABARET as well as an Oscar for reprising his role in the film adaptation, has also starred on Broadway in Anything Goes, Wicked, Chicago, The Grand Tour, Goodtime Charley, George M!, Half a Sixpence, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, Come Blow Your Horn and Joy Ride, as well as off-Broadway's Give Me Your Answer, Do!, The Normal Heart, Silverlake, MARCO POLO Sings a Solo and more. Grey has made guest appearances on TV in Warehouse 13, Nurse Jackie, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Brothers & Sisters, House, Alias, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order: CI, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and also starred in the series Oz.

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