Christopher Wheeldon's leap from ballet to Broadway
The British choreographer's Tony award-winning An American in Paris puts him up on a level with Jerome RobbinsChristopher Wheeldon's adaptation of the 1951 movie An American in Paris has been the most ambitious project of his career by far. As a first-time director, he did extraordinarily well to be among the five nominees for best musical at the Tony awards. But the fact that Wheeldon ended up with the best choreogr…