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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 May 2018
- ISBN 9780199336791
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages370 pages
- Size 236x157x30 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 37 photographs 0
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Short description:
Bob Fosse is one of the most significant figures in the post-World War II American musical theater. Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical is a fascinating look at the evolution of Fosse as choreographer and director. It traces is early dance years, the influence of mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, and the impact of his three marriages-all to dancers-on his career.
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Bob Fosse (1927-87) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in the 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 the 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 projects, the film Star 80 and the musical Big Deal, both 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 early 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.
A fascinating and well-researched book...Essential.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Geoffrey Block
Acknowledgements
Glossary of dance terms
Introduction
Chapter 1: Boy Dancer
Chapter 2: Apprenticeship
Chapter 3: Uncle Sam Rag
Chapter 4: Comic Relief
Chapter 5: Rhythm of Life
Chapter 6: Wilkommen
Chapter 7: An Anecdotic Revue
Chapter 8: Keep It Hot
Chapter 9: Dancin' Solo
Chapter 10: Dance of Death
Chapter 11: Control
Fosseville
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
