Donna McKechnie's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1942) is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. The birth-card coordinate for November 16 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1976 Best Actress in a Musical (A Chorus Line) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1976 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — A Chorus Line as Cassie Ferguson

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Donna McKechnie's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Donna McKechnie. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

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Donna McKechnie in the public record

She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, the character of Cassie Ferguson in the musical A Chorus Line. She earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical at the 30th Tony Awards for this performance in 1976. She is also known for playing Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows from 1969 to 1970. Donna McKechnie was born in 1942 in Pontiac, Michigan, the daughter of Donald Bruce McKechnie and Carolyn Ruth Johnson. She began ballet classes at age five. Her earliest influence was the classic British ballet film The Red Shoes (1948), which prompted her, at age eight, to plan a career as a ballerina. She studied for many years at the Rose Marie Floyd School of Dance in Royal Oak. Despite her parents' strong misgivings, she moved to New York City when she was 17.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Donna McKechnie (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 6 of Hearts

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She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, the character of Cassie Ferguson in the musical A Chorus Line.

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Also on the record

1. Rejected after an audition for the American Ballet Theatre, she found employment in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall but walked off the job on the day of dress rehearsal to do summer stock at the Carousel Theater in Framingham, Massachusetts.
2. She studied theatre at HB Studio in New York City.
3. After doing a Welch's grape juice commercial and the first L'eggs stockings commercial, McKechnie was cast in a touring company of West Side Story.
4. In 1961, she made her Broadway debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, where she met choreographer Bob Fosse and his wife, Gwen Verdon.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alice Ripley — 2009 Best Actress in a Musical (Next to Normal)
• James Corden — 2012 Best Actor in a Play (One Man, Two Guvnors)
• Sean Hayes — 2023 Best Actor in a Play (Good Night, Oscar)

FAQ

What is Donna McKechnie's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. November 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Donna McKechnie's dates come from?

Birth date 1942-11-16 is the day-precision date on Donna McKechnie's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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