Fosse (84 page)

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   “Do you think we can talk Robbins into”: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   Prince called Robbins: Ibid.

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   Walking up Fifth Avenue after: Abbott,
Mister
Abbott,
248.

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   Fosse ran into: Carl Reiner, interview with the author, September 14, 2010.

THIRTY-THREE YEARS

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   “[I] let everything that can come out”:
American Musical Theater with Earl Wrightson,
CBS, January 1, 1962.

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   “I go through each number and try to get a combination”: Glenn Loney, “The Many Facets of Bob Fosse,”
After Dark,
June 1972.

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   “I need to have a sense of insecurity”: Kenneth L. Geist, “Fosse Reflects on Fosse,”
After Dark,
February 1980.

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   “I finally [get] to the point”: Loney, “The Many Facets of Bob Fosse.”

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   six or seven packs a day: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   thirty thousand dollars short: Allene Talmey, “Biography of a Musical: ‘Damn Yankees,’”
Vogue,
March 1956.

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   “Abbott would give you line readings”: Rae Allen, interview with the author, September 3, 2010.

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   If someone started getting arty: Helen Gallagher, interviewed by Liza Gennaro, March 22, 2006, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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   “His legs were so long”: Rae Allen, interview with the author, September 3, 2010.

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   “He was the most disciplined man”: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   He asked the kids to call him George: Rae Allen, interview with the author, September 3, 2010.

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   “Bobby was deeply serious”: Ibid.

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   “He was mostly quiet”: Janis Paige, interview with the author, July 28, 2010.

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   Mickey Mouse lunch box and a Donald Duck baseball hat: Rae Allen, interview with the author, September 3, 2010.

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   Fosse was the king of: Shirley MacLaine,
My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir
(New York: Bantam, 1995), 163.

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   “Just stage it”: Rae Allen, interview with the author, September 3, 2010.

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   Robbins’s coat was off by the time: Janis Paige, interview with the author, July 28, 2010.

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   “In an hour and a half, [Robbins] had”: Gaby Rodgers, “Bob Fosse: ‘Choreography Is Writing with Your Body,’”
Long Island,
October 1, 1978.

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   “You keep the actors moving”: Ibid.

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   “In five minutes, Jerry had it solved”: Rae Allen, interview with the author, September 3, 2010.

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   He gave Janis Paige a newspaper: Janis Paige, interview with the author, July 28, 2010.

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   “That’s where Jerry Robbins came in”: Sara Dillon, interview with the author, October 8, 2010.

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   “It was a big egg”: Ibid.

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   “Why don’t you do something simple”: Richard Adler, interviewed by Michael Kantor, March 29, 1999, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

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   “That’s it,” Fosse said: Ibid.

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   “He threw about a million steps at us”: Kevin Boyd Grubb,
Razzle Dazzle: The Life and Work of Bob Fosse
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 42.

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   loved what Fosse did: Bob Fosse, interview with “Haddad,” 1982, LOC, box 49A.

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   “If you want to make a reputation”: Ed Blank, “Why Don’t They Dance in Films? Ask Fosse,”
Pittsburgh Press,
September 8, 1983.

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   “The actual choreography comes out of”: Fosse interview with “Haddad.”

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   “The tricks”: MacLaine,
My Lucky Stars,
165.

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   “Steam Heat” got a standing ovation: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “Bob never forgot how hard Jerry fought”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “They needed money”: Sara Dillon, interview with the author, October 8, 2010.

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   Before the opening-night curtain went up: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   That night, May 13, 1954: Alvin Klein, “Hey There! It’s Richard Adler,”
New York Times,
March 5, 1989.

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   Richard Adler looked through the clamor: Ibid.

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   “I don’t think any of us touched”: Seymour Peck, “Up and Coming Actress,”
New York Times,
May 23, 1954.

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   “What do you think?”: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “That night, Carol and Buzz and Peter”: Janis Paige, interview with the author, July 28, 2010.

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   “I think ‘Steam Heat’ was
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“Bob Fosse: Steam Heat,”
Great Performances: Dance in America,
PBS; first aired February 23, 1990.

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   Saying nothing, they just looked: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “The last new musical of the season”: Brooks Atkinson, “Theater in Review: ‘Pajama Game,’”
New York Times,
May 14, 1954.

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   “The bright, brassy, and jubilantly sassy”: Walter Kerr,
Pajama Game
review,
New York Herald Tribune,
May 14, 1954.

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   “By 9
A.M.
”: Klein, “Hey There! It’s Richard Adler.”

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   Robbins gave Fosse a pair: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   After selling their previous lot: Lisa Jo Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down
(Lebanon, NH: Northeastern University Press, 2003), 245.

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   “I’m confused”: Frances Herridge, “Curtain Cues,”
New York Post,
May 28, 1954.

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   ignore the offer from Columbia: Thomas M. Pryor, “‘Oklahoma!’ Cast Is Named on Coast,”
New York Times,
June 19, 1954.

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   he would go from Joan to Janet: Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down
, 223.

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   It was immediately obvious to Fosse: Janet Leigh,
There Really Was a Hollywood
(New York: Doubleday, 1984), 177.

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   “I can’t wait to see you”: Tony Curtis with Peter Golenbock,
American Prince: A Memoir
(New York: Crown, 2008), 167.

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   “Bob came to the set with a sense”: Tommy Rall, interview with the author, April 20, 2011.

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   “I have always tried to run a dance”: Morton Eustis, “Fred Astaire: The Actor-Dancer Attacks His Part,”
Theater Arts Monthly,
May 1937.

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   “How do you know what you’re doing?”: Blake Edwards, interview with the author, September 10, 2009.

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   Credited director Richard Quine looked on: Jerome Delamater,
Dance in the Hollywood Musical
(Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1988), 204.

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   “He was determined to make”: Tommy Rall, interview with the author, April 20, 2011.

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   “anything I wanted”: Gene Siskel, “Who Killed Dorothy Stratten?,”
Chicago Tribune,
November 6, 1983.

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   On the publicity tour: Delamater,
Dance in the Hollywood Musical,
204.

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   complications of diabetes: Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down,
224.

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   The problems with Fosse added immeasurably to her distress: Ibid., 226.

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   tried to make the award show: Arthur Gelb, “Popularizing the ‘Tony’ Awards,”
New York Times,
April 1, 1956.

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   “He was his usual”: Rae Allen, e-mail to the author, February 2, 2013.

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   “Look,” he said to Hal Prince: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “I’m very nervous,” he said: Interviews with Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gwen Verdon, Marian Seldes, and Elizabeth McCann,
CUNY Spotlight,
CUNY-TV, 1991, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

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   “I’m just going to show you”: Ibid.

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   moves she recognized from her early days: Ibid.

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   “It’s a vulnerability”: “Bob Fosse,”
The Dick Cavett Show,
PBS, July 8, 1980.

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   “Sure, Bob’s tough”: Robert Alan Aurthur, “Hanging Out,”
Esquire,
December 1972.

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   “The thing that impresses me most”:
American Musical Theater with Earl Wrightson
.

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   “My knees were so badly knocked”: Hyman Goldberg, “Little Knock-Knees Knocks ’Em Cold,”
Sunday Mirror Magazine,
n.d., ca. 1955.

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   “That child is like wild sunset!”: Rex Reed, “‘I Never Wanted to Be Special,’”
New York Times,
February 6, 1966.

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   In the fourth grade, Gwen started signing: “Gwen Verdon and the American Dance Machine,”
The Dick Cavett Show,
PBS, December 5 and 6, 1977.

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   Gwen didn’t have technique but: Verdon interview on
CUNY Spotlight.

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   “My grandmother was very supportive,” Jim Henaghan, interview with the author, January 17, 2013.

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   “Her dream was to have a home”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Henaghan drank: Verdon interview on
CUNY Spotlight.

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   “Jimmy”: Jim Henaghan, interview with the author, January 17, 2013.

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   “He would do absolutely true”: Ibid.

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   Cole was mostly silent with Gwen: Ibid.

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   “Jack was pretty amused”: Earl Wilson, “The Girl Who Showed ’Em How,”
Silver
Screen,
February 1954.

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   He could see that Gwen had, like him: Tom Prideaux, “A New-Model Verdon,”
Life,
February 23, 1959.

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   “Well, if you say it in English”: Robert Rice, “New Star in Town: Gwen Verdon,”
New York Post,
June 5, 1957.

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   “Gwen’s answer to Cole”: Tommy Tune, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   “She had an adeptness”: Rice, “New Star in Town.”

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   “I won’t let him beat me”: Ibid.

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   “My mom had to decide”: Jim Henaghan, interview with the author, January 17, 2013.

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   “She understood”: Ibid.

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   “It was quite apparent to everyone”: Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down,
225.

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   “All my women have beauty”: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,”
American Film,
November 1979.

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   McCracken was the one to urge him: Bob Fosse, interview with Dick Stelzer,
Star Treatment,
LOC, box 47C, folder 1.

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   Mostly he talked about work: Ibid.

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   “In my own case these were things like”: Ibid.

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   “I’m a pretty good husband”: Chris Chase, “Fosse, from Tony to Oscar to Emmy,”
New York Times,
April 29, 1973.

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   “I think he felt a sense of betrayal”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “I didn’t realize until I got into analysis”: Jan Hodenfield, “Bob Fosse Feet First,”
New York Post,
April 21, 1973.

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   “If an adult has experienced repetitive trauma”: Charles Rousell, interview with the author, July 16, 2011.

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   Beginning March 7, 1955, she zipped: “Making of a Musical,”
Life,
May 16, 1955.

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   Two weeks later, the eighty-three-person company: Ibid.

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   Prince suggested cutting the big: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “Bob and I put the number together”: Carol Ilson,
Harold Prince: A Director’s Journey
(New York: Limelight, 2000), 22.

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   “I begged him to see”: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “We were tossing out score”: Ibid.

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   “She was very loyal, Gwen”: Ibid.

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   Before the show, McCracken went backstage: Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down,
226.

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   “I put it all together later”: Ibid.

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   She had a heart attack, then another: Ibid., 228.

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   It was in the hospital that he left her: Ibid.

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   Something was wrong with him: Fosse interview with Dick Stelzer.

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   He saw his psychiatrist as often as: Ibid.

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   Joan continued to keep her heart attacks: Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down,
229.

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   “the most incendiary star on Broadway”: Roger S. Hewlett, “The Devil’s Disciple,”
Time
, June 13, 1955.

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   A few dancers on their way: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   as she was walking down a busy avenue: Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down,
244.

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   At night, he called Joan: Ibid.

THIRTY-TWO YEARS

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   Oakdale Theater: “Irene Manning in ‘Pal Joey’ at Oakdale Theater,”
Hartford Courant,
June 26, 1955.

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   “In this business”: Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   “Show business is really important”: Bob Fosse,
Tomorrow with Tom Snyder,
NBC, January 31, 1980.