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Their Shared Love of Theater Was Just the Opening Act
Ellenore Paige Scott no longer needed people to clap for her when Richard Lee Everett III entered her life in February 2023.
The Broadway choreographer and director had by then gotten her fill of admiration from strangers. Her hit Broadway shows included 'Funny Girl' and 'Mr. Saturday Night.' A star turn on television had happened 14 years earlier, when she was third runner-up on 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
When Mr. Everett reached out on social media to compliment her work that winter, she didn't feel compelled to respond. But she wouldn't be sorry for acknowledging the praise three months later.
'I JUST FOUND THE MAN I WANT TO MARRY,' Ms. Scott texted her mother on May 13, 2023, the night the two first met. Both were in love before a week had elapsed.
Ms. Scott, 35, grew up in Santa Cruz, Calif., as the only child in a household of fluid movement. Both her mother, Michelle Ramos, and father, Michael Scott, were professional dancers.
Her ballet training started at age 2, but it wasn't until she was 9 and saw her father performing a hip-hop routine on the television show 'Destination Stardom' that she started taking dance seriously.
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