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Author : Sam Wasson
Release : 2013
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 293/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fosse by : Sam Wasson
Download or read book Fosse written by Sam Wasson. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative and endlessly revealing biography of renowned dancer, choreographer, screenwriter, and director Bob Fosse, written by a bestselling pop culture historian.
Author : Sam Wasson
Release : 2019-04-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fosse by : Sam Wasson
Download or read book Fosse written by Sam Wasson. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't dance for the audience. Dance for yourself. The basis for a lavish new drama series from Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Fosse is the definitive book on one of Broadway's and Hollywood's most complex and dynamic icons. The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionised almost every facet of American entertainment. A ground-breaking dancer, choreographer, and theatre and film director, his innumerable achievements include Cabaret, All That Jazz and Chicago, one of the longest-running Broadway musicals ever. Yet his offstage life was equally dramatic, marked by deep psychological wounds and insatiable appetites. In this richly detailed and beautifully written biography, Sam Wasson draws on a wealth of unpublished material and over 300 interviews with Fosse's family, friends, enemies, lovers and collaborators, many of them speaking publicly about Fosse for the first time. Fosse is a book bursting with energy and style, pleasure and pain - much like the man himself.
Author : Kevin Winkler
Release : 2018-02-08
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 814/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Big Deal by : Kevin Winkler
Download or read book Big Deal written by Kevin Winkler. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and was a key figure in the rise of the director-choreographer in the Broadway musical. He also became the only star director of musicals of his era--a group that included Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Kidd, and Harold Prince--to equal his Broadway success in films. Following his unprecedented triple crown of show business awards in 1973 (an Oscar for Cabaret, Emmy for Liza with a Z, and Tony for Pippin), Fosse assumed complete control of virtually every element of his projects. But when at last he had achieved complete autonomy, his final efforts, the film Star 80 and the musical Big Deal, written and directed by Fosse, were rejected by audiences and critics. A fascinating look at the evolution of Fosse as choreographer and director, Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical considers Fosse's career in the context of changes in the Broadway musical theater over four decades. It traces his early dance years and the importance of mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins on his work. It examines how each of the important women in his adult life--all dancers--impacted his career and influenced his dance aesthetic. Finally, the book investigates how his evolution as both artist and individual mirrored the social and political climate of his era and allowed him to comfortably ride a wave of cultural changes.
Author : Jenai Cutcher
Release : 2005-12-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bob Fosse by : Jenai Cutcher
Download or read book Bob Fosse written by Jenai Cutcher. This book was released on 2005-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and accomplishments of one of America's best choreographers who developed his own style of dancing and is responsible for the musicals "Steam Heat" and "Damn Yankees."
Author : Kevin Boyd Grubb
Release : 1989
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Razzle Dazzle by : Kevin Boyd Grubb
Download or read book Razzle Dazzle written by Kevin Boyd Grubb. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the controversial choreographer whose innovative, sexually charged dance routines shock theatergoers and largely mirrored his own frenetic personal life
