Trivia

Won Broadway's 1989 Tony Award as Best Choreographer for "Black and Blue," along with his collaborators Cholly Atkins, Frankie Manning and Fayard Nicholas. He also received two other nominations in the same category: in 1979, along with Billy Wilson for "Eubie!" and in 1981, along with Donald McKayle and Michael Smuin for "Sophisticated Ladies."

Known as the "Choreographer to the Stars", he worked with a myriad of Hollywood and Broadway stars in a career that extended well over sixty years.

Inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2015.

Survived by his two sons: Henry LeTang Jr, and Jon LeTang and a sister Edith LeTang and ten grandchildren.

Parents are: Clarence LeTang, and Maria LeTang.

In addition to his interest in dance, LeTang played the violin.

His last project was the Showtime bio-film Bojangles in 2001.

The Oklahoma City University Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management Ann Lacy School of Dance and Entertainment - Oklahoma City University, headed by Dean John Bedford and dance department chairman Jo Rowan, presented LeTang with a Living Treasure in American Dance Award in 1995 and with an Honorary Doctor of Performing Arts in American Dance degree in 2002.

LeTang devised dance routines for the Broadway musicals My Dear Public and Dream with Music in the mid-1940s, but his first credit as a full-fledged choreographer was the 1952 revival of the 1921 revue Shuffle Along with Eubie Blake.

LeTang's screen credits include Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) and Tap (1989).

He was an American theatre, film, and television choreographer and a dance instructor.

Over the ensuing decades he taught and/or worked with a multitude of entertainment personalities, including Lena Horne, Betty Hutton, Billie Holiday, Eleanor Powell, Lola Falana, Peter Gennaro, Leslie Uggams, Joey Heatherton, Chita Rivera, Ben Vereen, Debbie Allen, Hinton Battle, Savion Glover, and the Hines brothers, Maurice and Gregory.

For television he choreographed The Garry Moore Show for seven years, staged the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon numerous times, and created dance routines for George Balanchine and Milton Berle.

In the years prior to his death, he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, teaching master classes from his home studio and travelling several times a year to hold classes in New York City.

At the age of seventeen, he opened his first studio, one small room with a piano.