Fosse
by Matthew Diamond
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Actor: Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, Dana Moore, Edwaard Liang, Eugene FlemingDirector: Matthew Diamond
Brand: Image Entertainment
Editor: Girish Bhargava
Producer: Judy Kinberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Fosse
DVD Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the Broadway shows released in DVD format, this is the very best I've ever seen. The show is simply spectacular: music, choreographies, dancing are really great. I think it comes quite close to the actual staging and for those who did not see it, it certainly offers the opportunity to have a clear idea about it. Technically, the dvd filled up all my expectations: it's very well done. Don't miss the chance to get it, specially to Broadway musical fans.DVD Review: dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great DVD showing what a wonderful chorographer Bob Fosse was. Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking and cast do a dynamic job of his dance steps. I would highly recommend this DVD.DVD Review: Fosse doing what he does best!
Summary: 4 Stars
All That Jazz is good, Tells the story of Fosse ..but this is what Fosse is about .. It shows his talent in choreography and the people that experienced it!
Wonderful! IF you enjoy dance.. get FOSSE
DVD Review: Knock-out dance routines - a must-have for musical theatre buffs
Summary: 5 Stars
Lovers of musical theatre will need no introduction to Bob Fosse. FOSSE is a tribute to his work, staged on Broadway, a 1999 Tony Award winner for Best Musical and the DVD was filmed on stage in 2001 by PBS. The show recreates dance numbers that Fosse choregaphed for musicals such as THE PAJAMA GAME, CABARET, SWEET CHARITY, PIPPIN, CHICAGO right through to dance-only shows such as DANCIN' (which itself is due for a Broadway revival). DVD transfer is excellent, in high definition widescreen. Chapter selection has been thoughtfully designed, listing each acts numbers (there are three acts) and bonus feature includes an interview with Dana Moore, Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen. A must-have for all lovers of musical theatre!DVD Review: Not innovative or cutting edge
Summary: 1 Stars
When I first started watching Fosse, they start out with "Liza With a Z", and I was thinking to myself, "Oh, my gosh, what have I got myself into?" See, I wasn't too impressed with it, and I was sort of shocked at how my expectations of this DVD were so different from what it really was. Then a little later I was thinking, "At least the dude likes pretty women in skimpy tops, so the dude can't be all bad." Then I realized all the guys had skimpy tops on, too; so I was thinking that the Fosse guy was a little androgynous, or maybe, you know, bisexual. And I was thinking, "Why do they have to sing such an old-fashioned song, like Bye Bye Blackbird? Whatever happened to originality?" At the end of the Liza thing people in the audience clapped. I wouldn't have clapped for it.
The choreography in Liza seemed more the work of someone suffering from a psychosis, rather than the work of a dance genius. And I was thinking, "The dancing in this DVD is as bad as, or worse than, 'Step Up 2 The Streets'."
Then the thing about Sweet Charity started, and I was like, "Well, let's hope this is better," but it was just an amateurish Pussycat Dolls-type routine.
Than "Dancin'" started, and I was surprised that the guy could still get a job on Broadway after the fiascoes & disaster of the first two shows. He still had his signature move of pretty girls in skimpy tops, but at least by this time the guys have their shirts on. Then after a while the DVD does another number from Dancin'. The guys are fully dressed; but, unfortunately, so are the girls. That Fosse guy sure liked girls and the guys to dress alike, and I was thinking, "Can't he ever think of a dance number with less than two dozen people on stage?"
I was shocked and appalled when at one point the "dance" consisted of people playing patty-cake with themselves. Do people in New York really pay to watch this stuff? Maybe I should write choreography of people playing patty-cake with themselves, and I'll win a Tony....
Act Two starts with dancing to Damn Yankees, but the dancing looks awfully old-fashioned or run-of-the-mill.
The Fosse guy certainly wasn't much of an innovator. Probably nobody would accuse him of being before his time.
And then we get the song "Dancing in the Dark". Isn't that (like Bye Bye Blackbird) an old-fashioned song?
Eventually we come to a bit of dancing to The Pajama Game, and it's appalling that people-- the men and the women-- are doing a Jimmy Durante imitation.
This DVD perhaps goes on and on with somewhat curious and mystifying blandness and mediocrity. There's a dance number that was purportedly on the Bob Hope Special, but, frankly, I didn't think it was a very good dance routine.
At one point in this DVD a woman dances, and she tries to flop her hair around. That ordinarily could be very sexy, but in order for that to be effective, it helps to have long hair but the woman's hair is too short and too curly. It was amateurish & incompetent that the woman and the choreographer didn't know that.
Apparently there was a road show version of this Fosse show in L.A. a few years back, and at the time I wanted to go see it, but now I feel less guilty that I never saw it.
I love watching dance movies and dance shows, like Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Dancing With the Stars, and others, but perhaps I only like a narrow bandwidth of dancing. Perhaps some people will like this dance DVD, but it wasn't me.
Description of Fosse
The electricity of one of Broadway's greatest talents springs to life in Fosse, a tribute to the man behind such favorites as Cabaret, Chicago, Sweet Charity, and Pippin. A seductive mixture of physically aggressive dance moves and dazzling visual style, Bob Fosse's approach to theater revolutionized how we experience music and dance, while his mixture of cynicism and sentiment remains timely decades after his death. Join one of Fosse's most gifted collaborators, Ann Reinking, as she and a wild, gyrating cast take you through such memorable standards as "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries," "Steam Heat," "Mein Herr," and the unforgettable "Big Spender." So pull up a seat, put on your dancin' shoes, and get ready for a tune-studded show guaranteed to deliver plenty of "Razzle Dazzle!" Songs: Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, Bye Bye Blackbird, From the Edge, Percussion 4, Big Spender, Crunchy Granola Suite, From This Moment On, Transition/Dance Elements, I Wanna Be a Dancin' Man, Shoeless Joe Ballet, Dancing in the Dark, Steam Heat, I Gotcha, Rich Man's Frug, Silly Thoughts, Cool Hand Luke, Nowadays, The Hot Honey Rag, Glory, Manson Trio, Mein Herr, Take Off with Us/Three Pas de Deux, Razzle Dazzle, Who's Sorry Now, There'll Be Some Changes Made, Mr. Bojangles, Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (reprise), Sing Sing Sing. 118 minutes.The 1999 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Fosse celebrates the work of director-choreographer Bob Fosse, one of Broadway's and film's truly innovative and distinctive talents. While Fosse's prot?g? Ann Reinking (also the co-choreographer) and frequent collaborator Ben Vereen are the headliners, the dance revue was conceived as an ensemble piece, so the 32-member cast gets plenty of chances to shine. The nearly two-hour performance features re-creations of dazzling numbers from such milestones as Cabaret ("Mein Herr"), Chicago ("Nowadays"), Sweet Charity ("Big Spender"), The Pajama Game ("Steam Heat"), Dancin' ("I Wanna Be a Dancin' Man"), and All That Jazz ("There'll Be Some Changes Made," among others, but not the stunning "On Broadway" sequence). Reinking, Vereen, and another Fosse collaborator, cast member Dana Moore, also share their memories in interview segments. Filmed in live performance, Fosse stands as a memorial to one man's striking vision, an essential record of many classic routines, and simply a whole lot of fun to watch. --David Horiuchi
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