Robert LuPone: Just days after losing his fight with pancreatic

Just days after losing his fight with pancreatic illness, Patti LuPone is recalling her brother

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Robert LuPone's "unparalleled" dancing. The Broadway legend, 73, exclusively revealed to Page

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Six on Monday that her brother Bobby was an unmatched dancer. "And it all began when he saw

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me performing in a hula skirt at a dance recital. He was 7; I was 4. The sister and brother team received

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admission to The Juilliard School while they were teenagers. Patti was a theatre student, whereas Robert,

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who was three years older, studied dance. The actress mentioned that a "life-sized image" of her brother performing

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in Jose Limon's contemporary dance "There is a Time" was displayed in the elite school's photo gallery.

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The "Evita" actor recalled, "A few years later, as a theatre division student, I would stroll past it proudly as

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well as in amazement." Robert obtained a BFA in dance from Juilliard in 1968, and thanks to his skills,

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he was cast in "A Chorus Line." He received a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for

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his work as Zach. In a 1998 interview with Playbill, Robert spoke fondly of his childhood memories.

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