She has been tap dancing on the Follies’ stage for 14 years with the skill and electricity of someone a quarter her age—continuing a dance career that began decades ago, in the 1930s. […]
Little Dorothy Hunn (her maiden name) was already dancing when Calvin W. Coolidge was president of the United States, took lessons at three, taught the legendary Bob Fosse to tap dance when she was a teenage prodigy, and emerged at the famed Empire Room of the Palmer House in Chicago as, Dorothy Dale, a show business headliner at 15!
She was paid $35 for the first week, bought a dress for her mother, and still has the cancelled check as a souvenir. […]
Ask her if her feet and body ache after a performance, one of nine weekly, and she replies jauntily (and apocryphally), “No, I just soak them in vodka.”
In addition to a long career in show biz, Kloss survived a bout with colon cancer in her late 50s.
Here’s Kloss being ribbed by Follies emcee Riff Markowitz and handing it right back:
Tickets for the Follies can be purchased here. Susan Anton is performing with the production through March 7, then John Davidson through May 9. Anton returns for an encore on May 13-17 before the season closes.
