Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical by Kevin Winkler

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical Author: Kevin Winkler Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 11, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Bob Fosse (1927–1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in 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 its trademark 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 efforts, the film Star 80 and the musical Big Deal, 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.