Fosse

"I grew up during the golden era of Broadway choreography, enamored of Michael A Chorus Line Bennett’s leaps and extensions, Gower 42nd Street Champion’s production number overkill and Jerome West Side Story Robbins’ storytelling ballets. But no one fired my imagination like Bob Fosse, whose bumping, grinding, undulating dancers in Sweet Charity, Pippin and Chicago often seemed to be all elbows, shoulder rolls and cocked bowler hats. Sam Wasson’s Fosse tells us how his early days in burlesque (he was performing on the same stage as strippers from the age of 15) informed his choreography, and why the women he cheated on — most especially his wife and muse Gwen Verdon — stuck with him as he was razzle-dazzling every skirt on Broadway and in Hollywood. It’s filled with the kind of inside detail that comes of substantial research, and vivid descriptions that turn that research into a sort of movie in your head."

"A sensational, funny and compelling look at the life and genius of Bob Fosse. Definitive."