by Wasson, Sam
], [>]
Kismet, [>]–[>]
Lady in the Dark, [>]
The Latent Heterosexual, [>]
Lenny, [>], [>], [>]
Les Misérables, [>], [>], [>]
A Little Night Music, [>], [>]
Me and Juliet, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Merry Widow, [>], [>]
Miss Saigon, [>]
Oklahoma!, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Pal Joey with Gene Kelly, [>], [>]
The Passion of Josef D., [>], [>]
Phantom of the Opera, [>]–[>]
Promises, Promises, [>], [>]
Saturday Night, [>]
Scandal, [>]
Show Boat, [>]
The Sound of Music, [>]
Sweeney Todd, [>]
Talent ’52 benefit, [>]–[>]
Thieves, [>]–[>], [>]
A Thousand Clowns, [>]
Top Banana, [>]
The Vampire Lestat, [>]
Viva!, [>]
West Side Story, [>]–[>], [>]
See also musicals
stage productions with Fosse
Bells Are Ringing, [>]–[>]
Big Deal
casting, [>], [>], [>]
choreography and rehearsal, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
development, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
as a Fosse opus, [>], [>]
lighting, staging, and scenery, [>]–[>]
music and lyrics, [>], [>]–[>]
reviews, [>]–[>]
script, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Tony Award, [>]
Billion Dollar Baby, [>], [>]
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Call Me Mister, [>]–[>], [>]
Chicago
choreography and rehearsal, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
closing, [>]
Minnelli as understudy, [>]–[>]
music and lyrics, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
national tour, [>]
opening, [>]–[>]
Reinking in, [>]–[>]
reviews, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
rights to, [>]
script, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Verdon’s contract, [>]
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
The Conquering Hero, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Copper and Brass, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Damn Yankees, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Dance Me a Song, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Dancin’, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
dinner-theater revues, [>]–[>]
The Girls Against the Boys, [>]–[>], [>]
historical safekeeping, [>]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Little Me, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Liza Live at the Winter Garden, [>]
Liza with a Z (filmed for television), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“The Magic Bird of Fire,” [>]–[>]
Make Mine Manhattan, [>]–[>]
New Girl in Town, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Nights of Cabiria/Hearts and Flowers, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
The Pajama Game, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Pal Joey (City Center revival), [>]–[>], [>]
Pal Joey (Connecticut), [>]
Pal Joey (summer stock), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Pippin
casting, [>], [>]–[>]
choreography and rehearsal, [>], [>], [>], [>]
diversity of dance traditions in, [>], [>]
music and lyrics, [>]
nominations and awards, [>], [>]
opening, [>]
reviews, [>]–[>], [>]
script, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
stage community dynamics, [>]–[>], [>]
Pleasures and Palaces, [>]–[>], [>]
Redhead, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Roaring Twenties, [>]
Sweet Charity (Palace Theater), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Sweet Charity (revival), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Tough Situation, [>], [>]–[>]
Walking Happy, [>], [>]
Stanton, Harry Dean, [>]
Stark, Ray, [>]–[>], [>]
“Steam Heat” (dance), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Stein, Vicki, [>]
“Steppin’ Out with My Baby” (dance), [>]
Sternfeld, Tommy, [>]
Stevens, Cat, [>]
Stevens, George, [>], [>]
Stevens, Tony
on Big Deal, [>]
Chicago, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
on choreographers’ management styles, [>]
on Fosse’s competition with Bennett, [>], [>]
on Fosse’s style, [>], [>]
Stewart, Edward, [>]
Stone, Leonard, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Stone, Peter, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Strasberg, Lee, [>]
Stratten, Dorothy, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Stratten, Louise, [>]
Strauss, Lennie, [>]–[>]
Streisand, Barbra, [>], [>], [>], [>]
strippers, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also burlesque
Stroman, Susan, [>]–[>]
style of Fosse
amoeba formation, [>]
and ballet, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>] (See also Joffrey Ballet)
chameleonism, [>], [>]
cigarette, [>], [>], [>]
comedy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
darkness, [>], [>]
early interest in, [>]–[>]
existential limbo, [>]–[>]
limit to, [>]
sensual grittiness, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
use of lighting, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
See also “the Know”
detail work, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>] (See also perfectionism of Fosse)
East Indian, [>], [>], [>], [>]
the elegant with the common, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
film style, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
foreshadow of future styles, [>]
fourth wall, breaking the, [>], [>], [>]
gest, [>]–[>]
hands like holding soft-boiled-eggs, [>]
hands open, [>], [>], [>]
hands or wrists limp, [>], [>]
hat tricks, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
influences on, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>] (See also Astaire, Fred; Chaplin, Charlie; Frisco, Joe; Jolson, Al; Kelly, Gene; showbiz)
inwardness, [>], [>], [>], [>]
isolation of body parts, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
“the Know,” [>], [>], [>]
marriage of ballet with other forms, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
parody or satire, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
showbiz, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
signature or angle, [>], [>]
simplification, [>]–[>]
slowness, power in, [>]
stillness, [>]
tempo change, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
use of character, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Styne, Jule, [>], [>], [>]
Sullivan, Ed, [>], [>], [>]
Surtees, Bruce, [>], [>]
Surtees, Robert, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Tabori, Kristoffer, [>]–[>]
Tapps, Georgie, [>], [>]
Tarcai, Mary, [>]
Taubman, Howard, [>]
Tavern on the Green, [>]–[>], [>]
“Tea for Two” (song; used in auditions), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Tea for Two” (tap dance routi
ne), [>]
“Tears of Joy” (dance), [>], [>]
Teeter, Harry, [>]
television
with Fosse (See television with Fosse)
impact on musicals, [>]
Kobb’s Korner, [>]–[>]
live, filming logistics, [>]–[>]
Marty, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
MTV, [>], [>]
news vs. entertainment, [>], [>], [>]
promotion and professional ethics, [>]
quiz show scandal, [>]
television with Fosse
The Admiral Broadway Revue, [>]
The Bob Hope Show, [>], [>]
The Colgate Comedy Hour, [>]–[>]
Dancin’ (commercial), [>]–[>]
The Ed Sullivan Show, [>], [>], [>]
The Fifty-Fourth Street Revue, [>]–[>]
Ford Star Revue, [>]
Ford Startime, [>]–[>], [>]
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, [>]
Liza with a Z, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Pippin (commercial), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Pippin (movie for television), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
“Seasons of Youth” Timex revue, [>]–[>]
Toni Twin Time, [>]
Your Hit Parade, [>]
Your Show of Shows, [>]
Temple, Shirley, [>]
Tesich, Steve, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
“That Old Black Magic” (dance), [>], [>]
Thomas, Marlo, [>], [>]
Tierney, Gene, [>]
Times Square, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tony Award
development, [>]
1973, [>]–[>]
1976, [>]–[>]
1985, limited awards, [>]
1987, Les Misérables, [>]
won by Abbott, [>]
won by Fosse, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
won by Gorman, [>]
Tronick, Michael, [>]
Truffaut, François, [>]
truth game, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tucker, Sophie, [>], [>]
Tune, Tommy, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Turman, Larry, [>]
Tuttle, Herbert, [>]
20th Century Fox, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Tynan, Kenneth, [>]
“Uncle Sam Rag” (dance), [>]–[>], [>]
Ungerer, Miriam, [>]
Ungerer, Phoebe, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
union issues, [>], [>], [>], [>]
United Artists (UA), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Universal Pictures, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Unsworth, Geoffrey
Academy Award, [>], [>], [>]
Cabaret, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
on Fosse’s sexual orientation, [>]
Urmston, Ken, [>], [>]
Utt, Kenny, [>], [>], [>]
Vagos, Mary, [>]
Vallee, Rudy, [>]
Van, Bobby, [>]
Vanderbilt, Gloria, [>]
Van Dyke, Dick, [>], [>]
Vargas, Fernando, [>]
Variety Arts Studios
description, [>], [>]
Edith (receptionist), [>], [>]
fire, [>]
rehearsals held in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
vaudeville
decline, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
in the Fosse family, [>], [>]–[>]
influence on Chicago, [>], [>]
influence on Pippin, [>]
Oak Theater as venue, [>]
Palace Theater as venue, [>], [>], [>], [>]
as setting for Cabaret, [>]
Winchell in, [>]
Verdon, Gwen
advocate for psychotherapy, [>]–[>], [>]
after screening of All That Jazz, [>]
background, [>]–[>], [>]
The Blonde from Brooklyn, [>]
The Bob Hope Show, [>], [>]
Bonanza Bound, [>]
Can-Can, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
caregiving Fosse, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
censorship issues, [>]
Chicago
choreography and rehearsal, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
earmarked for, [>], [>]
influence on the last song, [>]–[>]
leaving permanently, [>]
leaving temporarily, [>]
opening, [>]
at closing of Big Deal, [>]
costume assistance on Cabaret, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Damn Yankees (movie), [>]
Damn Yankees (stage production), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
dance assist. to Cole, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
dance assist./co-choreographer to Fosse
Copper and Brass, [>]–[>]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Little Me, [>]
Pleasures and Palaces, [>]
Sweet Charity (movie), [>]–[>]
Sweet Charity (revival), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Dancin’ national tour, [>]–[>]
The Ed Sullivan Show, [>]
in Fosse’s will, [>]–[>]
home in East Hampton, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
home on Central Park West, [>]–[>], [>]
hosting Fosse’s wake, [>]–[>]
hosting parties, [>]–[>]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
injury, [>]–[>]
“The Magic Bird of Fire,” [>]
and McCracken, [>]
New Girl in Town, [>]–[>], [>]
Nights of Cabiria/Hearts and Flowers, [>]–[>], [>]
photographic memory, [>]
Pleasures and Palaces, [>]
pregnancy and birth of daughter, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Redhead, [>], [>], [>]
and Reinking, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
relationship with Cole, [>]–[>]
relationship with Fosse
after birth of daughter, [>], [>]
after the separation, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
early days, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
effects of her fame, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
enhanced by work, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
home life, [>]–[>]
legal wife, [>], [>], [>]
separation, [>]–[>], [>]
wedding, [>]
relationship with Lanning, [>], [>]
singing voice, limitations, [>