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They had much to do with propelling Bob Fosse's career as a show-business-shaking choreographer and director of musical comedy. The vignette, here vibrantly performed by Andy Blankenbuehler and Lainie Sakakura, is a re-creation of the first sequence Fosse choreographed for film, a scene from the 1953 movie of Kiss Me, Kate, danced by Fosse and ...
Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Cabaret (1972) and won the Palme D'Or in 1980 for All That Jazz.
In 1948, Tony Charmoli danced in Make Mine Manhattan, but gave the part to Fosse when the show toured nationally. Charmoli also found Fosse work as a dancer on the TV shows he was working on when Fosse returned from the tour. [15] Fosse told an interviewer, "Jerry [Jerome Robbins] started me doing choreography. He gave me my first job as a ...
Dancin ' is a musical revue created, directed, and choreographed by Bob Fosse and originally produced on Broadway in 1978. The plotless, dance-driven revue is a tribute to the art of dance, and the music is a collection of mostly American songs, many with a dance theme, from a wide variety of styles, from operetta to jazz to classical to marches [clarification needed] to pop.
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse.The final work of its sole producer Robert Alan Aurthur, who wrote the screenplay with Fosse and died the year before the release, it stars Roy Scheider as a versatile film and stage artist whose obsession with work and unhealthy habits cause to spiral into self-destruction.
Pages in category "Musicals choreographed by Bob Fosse" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Bob Fosse directed and choreographed. Production design was by Rouben Ter-Arutunian and lighting design was by Jean Rosenthal. Orchestrations were by Philip J. Lang and Robert Russell Bennett under the musical direction of Jay Blackton. The cast starred Verdon and Richard Kiley. The show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical ran in a ...
Frank Rich in his review for The New York Times wrote: "Big Deal, the new Fosse musical at the Broadway, contains exactly one of those show stoppers, and attention must be paid. If only for 10 minutes or so just before the end of Act I, Mr. Fosse makes an audience remember what is (and has been) missing from virtually every other musical in town.