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(FILES): This October 25, 2010 file photo shows actor Geoffrey Holder attending the 2010 Anglo-American Cultural Gala Awards reception at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College in New York City. Tony-winner Geoffrey Holder, a cultural giant who dazzled fans with his dancing, acting and art work in a multifaceted career that spanned over six decades, has died at 84, US media reported October 6, 2014. A spokesman for his family told The New York Times that Holder's cause of death on Sunday was complications of pneumonia. Files/Neilson Barnard/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY == == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY == Image Credit: AFP

Broadway theatres plan to dim their marquee lights on Friday night in memory of Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning director who led the groundbreaking show The Wiz to Broadway.

The Broadway League says the lights will be dimmed for one minute at 7.45pm. Holder died on Sunday of complications of pneumonia at age 84.

The 6-foot-6, Trinidad-born Holder won Tonys in 1975 for directing and designing the costumes for his all-black retelling of The Wizard of Oz. In 1978, he directed and choreographed the lavish Broadway musical Timbuktu! starring Eartha Kitt and earned another Tony nomination for best costumes.