Hope Clarke, Tony-Nominated Choreographer of Jelly's Last Jam, Dies at 85 by Sophia Rubino

Hope Clarke, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer, director and performer whose work on Jelly's Last Jam helped define one of Broadway's most celebrated musicals of the 1990s, has died. According to family representative Donelle Chisolm, Clarke died peacefully on July 23. She was 85. Born in Washington, D.C. on March 23, 1941, Clarke began her career as a dancer, performing with both the Katherine Dunham Company a…

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