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Fosse/Verdon: Created by Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson. With Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Aya Cash. An inside look at the romantic and creative partnership between influential choreographer/director, Bob Fosse, and Gwen Verdon, one of the greatest Broadway dancers of all time.
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- 2019-04-09
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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 · But “Fosse/Verdon” has a lot more on its mind than character study. In the five episodes provided to critics for review (three directed by Kail, one each by Adam Bernstein and Jessica Yu), the series takes a lot of swings.
Apr 9, 2019 · by Emily St. James. Apr 9, 2019, 3:50 PM PDT. Sam Rockwell plays Bob Fosse, and Michelle Williams plays Gwen Verdon, in a new miniseries devoted to their tempestuous relationship and creative...
- 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,”...
- Ellin Stein
Apr 3, 2019 · As glossy, though maybe less fabulous, as a top-tier Murphy production, Fosse/Verdon (premiering April 9) follows the romantic and creative entanglement of legendary director/choreographer Bob...
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Apr 8, 2019 · “Fosse/Verdon” becomes overwhelmed by the pain, hitting every signpost of too-much-too-fast breakdown stories, an avalanche of awards trophies and bottles of Seconal.
