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Fosse

Opened 1999

1,093 performances

Revue, Modern

Tony Award for Best Musical, 1999

Desmond Richardson, who was in the 1999 production. Manfred Werner (Tsui)

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.

Music: Ray Bauduc/ Bob Haggart;
Lyrics: Miscellaneous writers

Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End

1999

Broadhurst TheatreBroadway Original, opened January 14, 1999, directed by 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 TheatreLondon

Songs20 songs

Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, Calypso, Snake In the Grass, Bye Bye Blackbird, From the Edge, Percussion 4, Big Spender, Crunchy Granola Suite, Hooray for Hollywood, From This Moment On, Alley Dance, Walking the Cat, I Wanna Be a Dancin’ Man, Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo, Dancing in the Dark, I Love a Piano, Steam Heat, Rich Man’s Frug, Silky Thoughts, Cool Hand Luke

In a prescient note, he suggested that “in the future all musical comedies should be written by choreographers.”

Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 754

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