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Article: 'WEIRD' COINCIDENCE LINKS CITY TECH TO HIT BROADWAY SHOW 'BILLY ELLIOT'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22 -- The City University of New York's New York City College of Technology issued the following news release:
What's the probability of two complete strangers - whose sons concurrently star on Broadway as "Billy" in the Tony-Award-winning hit Billy Elliot the Musical - being hired by the same Downtown Brooklyn employer?
Not very likely, but that's exactly what happened at City Tech when Tammie Cumming and David Alvarez-Carbonell came on board - she as director of assessment and institutional research; he as an adjunct professor of chemistry.
It turns out Cumming's son, Alex Ko, will be the fifth actor to rotate into the title role of "Billy" (he makes his debut on October ...