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FosseSam Wasson

Fosse

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"We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce's moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art and earn him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional…

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6 editions
  • Other · English · 2019
    Ebury Publishing · 9781473531918
  • Other · English · 2019
    Penguin Random House · 736 pages · 9781785944499
  • Other · English · 2014
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 752 pages · 9780544334618
  • Other · English · 2013
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 672 pages · 9780547999227
  • Other · English · 2013
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 9781306028455
  • Other · English · 2013
    Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 736 pages · 9780547553290
ChoreographersBiographyFosse, bob, 1927-1987New York Times reviewedChorégraphesBiographies