#Fosse/Verdon

[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

Same energy

@kleenexwoman, it's our boys with the same energy!

[finemaleactors]

Sam Rockwell

[themousefromfantasyland]

Wow. I almost didn't recognize him.

It doesn't look quite like Joel Grey, but it really fits the Emcee

Ethan Slater as Joel Grey in Fosse/Verdon (2019)

(See more pics of Ethan 📸)

[downahill]

it’s so important to take one edible and rewatch fosse/verdon for the third time

[operaqueen]

Chita Rivera and Gwen Verdon, in the original Broadway production of Chicago.

[gwydpolls]

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[catboymoses]

Happy Charity Hope Valentine's day everyone!! To celebrate, here's Gwen Verdon and Debbie Allen practicing "If My Friends Could See Me Now" for the 1998 BC/EFA benefit.

psst! download the full BC/EFA proshot here until Feb 28 <3

gif by @impulsivedecisionsat3am (ty!)

[raphlecia]

sweet charity (1969) dir. bob fosse

[mthguy]

Gwen Verdon is adorable, and Bob Fosse’s choreography is electric, in this wonderful number from the Broadway production of Sweet Charity, performing “If My Friends Could See Me Now” on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 5, 1967.

They don’t make them like this anymore!

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

Happy International Dance Day!

[raisinchallah]

never gonna stop thinking about the fact bob fosse contemplated doing the vampire lestat on broadway with david bowie and mick jagger yeah if i was any of the people involved in making lestat the musical id like go into hiding after hearing that live forever in fear of the theoretical concept of bob fosse lestat musical if i was rolin jones id be quaking in my boots thinking about how the greatest theater straight of them all contemplated this before him... anyways bob fosse voice the vampire lays bare the essence of show biz and how it eats you up and kills you from the inside leeching off your soul and taking everything out of the actors and dancers it courts

[thevisualvamp]

Before Beyoncé

[unwelcome-ephestion]

Here’s a forgotten woman of musical theatre - Joan McCracken. She’s now mainly remembered as the first wife of Bob Fosse, but her contributions to musical theatre are much greater than that.

Image ID: publicity shot of Joan McCracken

McCracken shot to fame in Oklahoma!, credited in the programme as The Girl Who Falls Down because of her pratfall during ‘Many A New Day’. This might sound silly, but it would take until West Side Story for all individual chorus members to be assigned characters. The individual standing out from the chorus was a great surprise and added to the humour of the moment, and was a key innovation of choreographer Agnes De Mille. Joan McCracken went on to have a good Broadway career and appear in several films, although her work was hampered by diabetes, which she hid from her colleagues despite fainting spells, and which ultimately killed her aged only 43.

McCracken’s impact in Oklahoma! should not be underestimated - putting character before aesthetic was the show’s revolution, and her role was a huge part of that. She is also said to have encouraged Fosse to be a choreographer - whether that is true or not, it’s interesting that, like Gwen Verdon (Fosse’s second wife and Broadway legend), she was trained by George Balanchine, whose influence is evident in Fosse’s work. She is also said to be the inspiration for Holly Golightly, at least in part, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, whose author, Truman Capote, had an affair with her first husband, Jack Dunphy. However, we should recognise her influence as an acting dancer and comedienne just as much as her influence on male creatives!

[dontaskmeluv]

I finished my second watch of Fosse/Verdon last night and added a little review to Letterboxd (along with a fair few other Rockwell reviews over the past few months ranging from highbrow praise for his acting technique to pure thirst).

[abrahamshipwreck]

I am so proud of myself I made pizza crust from scratch yesterday and kneaded it and everything and it came out SO GOOD lemme have this victory

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

POP! SIX! SQUISH! CICERO! LIPSCHITZ!

Russell Patterson, 1928.