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It recounts the story of the rocky relationship between dancer, choregrapher and director Bob Fosse (played by Sam Rockwell) and his long-time creative partner and wife, Gwen Verdon (played by Michelle Williams, also one of the series' producers).
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Fosse/Verdon is an American biographical drama miniseries starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as director – choreographer Bob Fosse and actress/ dancer Gwen Verdon respectively. The series, which charts the couple's troubled personal and professional relationship, is based on the biography Fosse by Sam Wasson.
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Apr 8, 2019 · It’s Verdon (Williams), overflowing with love and optimism, arriving at a Berlin hotel room door, behind which is Fosse (Rockwell), who’s about to break her heart. Those two scenes lay plain the two relationships, contained within one, which are the heart of “Fosse/Verdon.”.
- Sweet Charity and Their Collaborative Style
- Pitching to Direct Cabaret
- Fosse’s Self-Destructive Streak and On-Set Behavior
- The Gorilla Mask
We first see Fosse (Sam Rockwell) at work on set as he’s blocking the “Big Spender” number for Sweet Charity. He’s having trouble getting the dancers to give him what he wants until Verdon (Michelle Williams) suggests they think of how dead on their feet the 10-cents-a-dance girls (a more prudish version of today’s lap dancers) would be at the end ...
Fosse pitches hard to direct the film version of Cabaret, but producer Cy Feuer (Paul Reiser) is resistant on the grounds that Fosse is known for style and flash while Cabaret is a more “intimate” piece. The real reason, of course, is that the film version of Sweet Charitycost $20 million and only made $8 million, a loss widely attributed to Fosse’...
Throughout the episode, there’s barely a frame where Fosse is not seen without a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He also pops Seconals, a popular ’60s barbiturate, like candy from a giant prescription bottle. Then there’s the constant flirting with—and harassment of—the many attractive women he works with, especially a German translator on Cabar...
Fosse/Verdon shows Verdon abandoning her own preparations for a stage role in New York to fly to the Cabaretset in Germany after being summoned by a desperate Fosse (despite his current hot affair with the translator). Having just arrived, she immediately flies back to New York to find the perfect gorilla head for the number “If You Could See Her,”...
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Apr 9, 2019 · “Fosse/Verdon” jumps in time through the highs and lows of its central pair’s long working and personal relationship, so here’s a chronological guide.
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Apr 16, 2019 · The couple had met when they were both appearing in a 1950 revue called Dance Me a Song, when Fosse was still married to his first wife, Mary Ann Niles, with whom he had a double act...
