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Why did Fayard Nicholas receive a Tony Award for Black and Blue?
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The Nicholas Brothers in Orchestra Wives (1942).
Fayard Nicholas received a Tony Award in 1989 for his work as a choreographer on the musical Black and Blue. He shared this honor with Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang, and Frankie Manning.1