Patrick Adiarte(1942-2025)

In 1958, Adiarte was cast as Wang San in Broadway's "Flower Drum Song" by director Gene Kelly. Adiarte made an electrifying appearance on the TV show "Omnibus" in a sequence entitled "Dancing, a Man's Game" alongside Kelly, who said, "If there's gonna be another Fred Astaire, I think it might well be Pat." The two then danced together, demonstrating how tap moves had originated vs. how they had progressed and modernized, with Kelly representing the old and Adiarte the new.