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Fosse
- Narrateur(s): Jim Meskimen
- Durée: 21 h et 23 min
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Description
We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere - from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyoncé's moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse'sdeep 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 andearn him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar.
Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life but his intense relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli, FredAstaire, and Neil Simon to Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman.Through extensive interviews with collaborators and lovers and unprecedented access to Fosse's archives, Wasson also reveals the deep wounds that propelled his subject's excessive appetites - for spotlights, women, and life itself. In Fosse, Wasson's stylish, effervescent prose proves the ideal vehicle for reanimating Bob Fosse as he truly was - after hours, close up, and in vibrant color.
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- Deanna O.
- 2021-03-30
Huge Fosse Fan! But..... not a fan of Meskimen
As a lifelong dancer and a huge fan of the Fosse style it was such a pleasure to listen to his story in detail. However, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.... if you are producing an audiobook about dance, please have the narrator use the correct pronunciation of terminology. It is insulting to hear the language of our art trampled upon. Jim Meskimen is a fine narrator but not for this book. Next time, hire a theatre actor.
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