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Fosse

Fosse

Shows · Fosse

Both Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (1989) and Fosse were tribute revues to the two masters of Broadway dance. But unlike the Robbins show, which focused on about a dozen sequences from his musicals and presented them in carefully organized reconstructions, Fosse sometimes stumbled with its diffuse and scatter-shot approach that conveyed far too much detail but conversely ignored many of his shows.

Opened
1999
Performances
1,093
Type
Revue
Era
Modern
Music: Ray Bauduc/ Bob Haggart;Lyrics: Miscellaneous writers

Productions3 on Broadway

1999 Broadhurst Theatre Original. January 14, 1999 · Richard Maltby, Jr. Choreography: Bob Fosse, recreated by Chet Walker Co-director & co-choreographer: Ann Reinking 1,093 performances · 1 Tony wins
2000 Prince of Wales Theatre Transfer. December 13, 2001
2001 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

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In the literature35 passages

A blockbuster came to the Broadhurst on January 14, 1999: Fosse, an exuberant dance revue spotlighting the choreography of Bob Fosse from his Broadway and Hollywood musicals. The razzle-dazzle spectacle found immediate favor with audiences, and went on to win the 1999 Tony Award as Best Musical. Some of the numbers wer… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p126

While continuing to act in such films as Cocoon and Marvin's Room, she was just as happy behind the scenes, as dance captain of Fosse’s Dancin’ and coach to Debbie Allen for the revival of Charity. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p84

Fosse—did well by the Chicago hoofer in a 1961 City Center reprise. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p723

'Robert Fosse and Gower Champion': de Mille, America Dances, 19S. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p775

Fosse's in The Pajama Game (Warner Brothers, 1957), Damn Yankees (Warner Brothers, 1958), Sweet Charity (Universal, 1969), and his cinematic rethinking of the Prince-Field Cabaret(ABC, 1972). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p777

'Sing, Sing, Sing’ had been featured to glorious effect in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and had in fact been reproduced in Fosse earlier in the year; two months prior to Swing!’s premiere, the song had been featured in Susan Stroman’s Off-Broadway dance musical Contact (which transferred to Broadway a few months later) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p401

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