{"id":151315,"date":"2024-06-27T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=151315"},"modified":"2024-06-27T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:20:27","slug":"dayton-daily-news-wright-state-grad-tilly-evans-krueger-takes-broadway-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/06\/27\/dayton-daily-news-wright-state-grad-tilly-evans-krueger-takes-broadway-by-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright State grad Tilly Evans-Krueger takes Broadway by storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Wright State University dance alumna Alexis \u201cTilly\u201d Evans-Krueger has taken Broadway by storm.<\/p>\n

In addition to serving as associate choreographer of and portraying tomboy Ace in the Broadway musical adaptation of \u201cThe Outsiders,\u201d the recipient of four 2024 Tony Awards on June 16 including Best Musical, she received the 2024 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show on May 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cDance is something I need \u2014 it\u2019s not just something I do,\u201d said Evans-Krueger, 32. \u201cDance has saved my life over and over again. To just be nominated for the Chita Rivera Award blew my mind and to win was so wild. It\u2019s still so hard for me to believe. But I\u2019m just so hard-working. I\u2019m super proud of \u2018The Outsiders\u2019 and I\u2019m super proud of the work I\u2019m doing in it. To be considered the most outstanding dancer on Broadway is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before she joined \u201cThe Outsiders,\u201d Evans-Krueger made her Broadway debut covering dance roles in \u201cMoulin Rouge!\u201d The coronavirus pandemic interrupted her trajectory with the show (she was initially slated to begin in March 2020) but she returned once Broadway reopened in 2021 and remained in the cast until 2023. Her extensive credits include off-Broadway\u2019s \u201cThe Wrong Man\u201d choreographed by Emmy winner Travis Wall (\u201cSo You Think You Can Dance\u201d), music videos such as Grammy winner Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cyes, and?,\u201d and film and TV projects \u201cBetter Nate Than Ever,\u201d \u201cRent Live!,\u201d \u201cIn the Heights\u201d and \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d She has also performed with such dance companies as Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC), Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, and BODYTRAFFIC dance company in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

During callbacks for \u201cThe Outsiders,\u201d Evans-Krueger chose to stay behind and learn fight choreography \u2014 a crucial decision that ultimately prompted an engaging conversation with director Danya Taymor, niece of Julie Taymor (Disney\u2019s \u201cThe Lion King\u201d), who received the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so excited and inspired by what I was taught during the callback and I think they saw the range in which my dancing could span,\u201d she explained. \u201cIn the first initial auditions Danya was very thorough. She talked to me about my career and my life. And the next day, (choreographers) Rick and Jeff Kuperman called to ask me if I would be an associate choreographer and I said absolutely. Choreography and me have an interesting relationship. It scares me because it\u2019s truly your own voice, but life is continuing to pull me down that road. The Kupermans and I were a really good match. And from the very beginning, Danya has been very special. We\u2019ve all grown so much as leaders during this process, which began with the first workshop in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the complete article at daytondailynews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wright State University dance alumna Alexis \u201cTilly\u201d Evans-Krueger has taken Broadway by storm. In addition to serving as associate choreographer of and portraying tomboy Ace in the Broadway musical adaptation of \u201cThe Outsiders,\u201d the recipient of four 2024 Tony Awards … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":150597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151327,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315\/revisions\/151327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}