Will the Real Tommy Rall Please Two-Step Up

It’s not unusual to hear about people impersonating celebrities. A decade or so, a young blond woman was having a grand old time going to restaurants in Kansas City and whispering to the servers not to tell anyone that she was Tori Spelling. She wasn’t, but a lot of star-struck waiters went overboard fawning over the chick.

And then there’s the strange case of a Texas dance instructor who got caught impersonating Tommy Rall.

Tommy who?

Back in the 1950s, at the tail end of the era of big studio movie musicals, a handful of famous male dancers were making a splash on the movie screen: Gene Kelly, of course, and Donald O’Connor, Dan Dailey, Russ Tamblyn and a wispy-haired blond from Chicago named Bob Fosse, who would become a lot more famous as a Broadway choreographer.