Variety reports. “She went to sleep and never woke up,” her family said in a statement. “We will miss her more than we can say.
Heaven has the best choreographer available now. I’m sure they are dancing up a storm up there! Annie, we will love and miss you always!!!”Reinking got her start in theater in a Seattle Opera House production of Bye Bye Birdie in 1965.
She made her Broadway debut in 1969 as a member of the ensemble in Cabaret and soon established herself as one of the best dancers on the stage as well as a talented actress.Her star-making role came in 1977, when she played murderess and 1920s tabloid sensation Roxie Hart in the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical Chicago, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, to whom she was both muse.