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Monday, December 14, 2020 at 11:06PM 
Ann Reinking in "All That Jazz"
The musical form has lost a bonafide legend. Ann Reinking, actress, director, choreographer, mentor, Roxie Hart revivalist, and Fosse expert nonpareil, passed away this weekend in her sleep at the age of 71...
Monday, October 7, 2019 at 9:30PM In this new series, members of Team Film Experience watch and share their reactions to classic films they’ve never seen.
By Ben Miller
Cabaret is Bob Fosse’s “musical” into the world of bohemian performer Sally Bowles and uptight Brit Brian Roberts. Both try to navigate the world of love along with the struggle to reach a level of extravagance, all the while experiencing the adapting political climate of 1930’s Berlin.
Shamefully, I had never seen it.
Friday, May 31, 2019 at 3:31PM by Eric Blume
Michelle & Sam as Gwen & Bobby
Fosse/Verdon wrapped its 8-episode run this Tuesday, and here’s a quick recap on the final three episodes, and some overall thoughts on this captivating mini-series.
Episode Six, “All I Care About is Love”
Episode six concerned Fosse’s heart attack during the editing of Lenny (1974) editing and rehearsals for Chicago on Broadway. It was one of the weaker episodes of the series, especially coming off the previous episode, the almost-staged-play episode with the characters locked in a Hamptons house, arguably the show’s high-water mark. That episode gave director Thomas Kail (who went from Hamilton to TV with graceful ease) the opportunity to put in the nails early on and keep screwing tightly, with all the actors laser-focused on their objectives and obstacles. Episode Six, on the other hand, contained some material handled directly in All That Jazz, and it felt more like a transitional episode for the final narrative haul of the show...
Monday, May 20, 2019 at 2:48PM Here are 10 things worth celebrating on this day in showbiz history, May 20th.
Federico Fellini and Jeanne Moreau were both winners at the 1960 Cannes festival but they look none too happy about it!
1891 Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope gets its first public display (to the National Federation of Women's Club). Could any of them have imagined the colossal artform that would spring forth in those early days?
1960 The 13th annual Cannes Film Festival wraps up with Federico Fellini's masterpiece (well, one of them at any rate) La Dolce Vita taking the Palme d'Or. The competition lineup was insanely rich...
Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 9:41PM Previously Ep 1 - "Life is a Cabaret"
No, no, I know who he is. The one with the hats.
by Nathaniel R
The premiere episode of Fosse/Verdon took place (mostly) in 1971 when Fosse was rehearsing Cabaret but linear storytelling isnt remotely 'on trend' in TV miniseries right now, so we're hopping backward for Episode 2 to 1955 when Gwen Verdon was flush from her breakout Tony-winning turn in "Can-Can" and cast in "Damn Yankees". At a lunch meeting Hal Prince (Evan Handler) tries to sell Broadway it girl Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams) on his choice of choreographer. Gwen isn't sold, wiggling her hand dismissively for Fosse's most famous recurring choreographic accessory, the hat. It's but one of many fine gestural moments from a truly inspired Michelle Williams. Though it's too soon to know, she may well be giving us the performance of her career...
