I never danced a
I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn’t exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do. Dick York
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The heads of the
The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn’t want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work. Debbie Reynolds
Bobby [Fosse] was very
Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time. Debbie Reynolds
[Bob Fosse] was a
[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow – it was his way or the highway. Debbie Reynolds
I always found that
I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher. Debbie Reynolds
All of the [Bob]
All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do. David Copperfield
Pippin had an opening
Pippin had an opening number called Magic to Do, and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, Wow, I’m seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live. It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse. David Copperfield
A few years later,
A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also second-acting every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob … Read more
If you ever saw
If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did. David Copperfield
I’ve never danced professionally
I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. Bebe Neuwirth