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Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (Broadway Legacies)

Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (Broadway Legacies) Paperback - 2018

by Winkler

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  • Title Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical (Broadway Legacies)
  • Author Winkler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 370
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2018-03-08
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR012305074
  • ISBN 9780199336791 / 0199336792
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Musicals - United States, Choreographers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017026450
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/2018, Page 12
  • Choice, 01/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2018, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2018, Page 104
  • Shelf Awareness, 03/27/2018, Page 0

About the author

Kevin Winkler enjoyed a career of more than twenty years as a curator, archivist, and library administrator at the New York Public Library, prior to which he was a professional dancer. He has published articles and contributed to books on performing arts libraries and archives, LGBTQ performance, films, and dance. He blogs for the Huffington Post and is a MacDowell Colony fellow.

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