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Mr. Crofoot spent three of his formative years in a wheel chair. When the doctors allowed him to walk again they recommended Ballet classes to strengthen his legs. He vecame a performer.

Leonard made his dance debut as a grasshoppe with the Kirov Ballet. On Broadway he originated the role of General Tom Thumb in Barnum, for which he received the Drama-League Critics Award. He performed in five other original Broadway shows Gigi, Grind,The Happy Time, Come Summer and The American Dance Machine. He performed with Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse at the Palace in London. He has danced for the Tony Awards and Academy Awards including recreating Donald O'Connor's wall-walking sequence from Singing in the Rain. He has performed in Los Angeles and New York with the Horse's Mouth, a live dance/theater documentary.

Some film credits include A Reflection of Fear in which he played Aaron, a doll character that attacks Sally Kellerman, Echoes, as Danny the room mate with John Spencer and the role of a coroner technician in Two Shades of Blue with Marlee Matlin.

On Television Leonard has appeared three times on Star Trek, the Next Generation. He co-starred on "Angel One" as Trent. In "The Offspring" as Data's creation, a neuter-gendered android and appeared in a Voyger esisode called "Virtuoso." In A.N.T. Farm he played Mr Whimperes, co-starred as Eddie in an "All at the Mall" esisode of Saved By the Bell. He appeared with Kristie Alley in a National Commercial for Jenny Craig. Recently he has appeared in Two and a Half Men and Glee.

Leonard has written and performed in his own critically acclaimed one-person show Nijinsky Speaks which has toured the country and in Los Angeles at the Ghetty Center and Off-Broadway in New York at the Harold Clurman Theater.

Story Title He is honored to be included in an interview by Rose Eichenbaum's published book The Dancer Within, intimate conversations with Great Dancers, Wesleyan University Press.

Leonard can be heard singing Bigger Isn't Better on the original cast album of Barnum and on the CD Broadway Scene Stealers: The Men, a compilation of performances, edited by Playbill.

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