Fosse (86 page)

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   upwards of $2,500 a number: Ibid.

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   “She had an entrance in that”: Beddow,
In the Company of Friends.

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   One night, in the middle of: Harvey Evans, interview with the author, January 28, 2011.

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   “We don’t know how Gwen did it”: Ibid.

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   To keep her weight up, she guzzled:
Broadway Beat with Richard Ridge,
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, June 22, 1999.

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   “This is the first time in my life”: Gilbert Millstein, “New Girl in Town—and How,”
New York Times,
February 15, 1959.

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   One night in Philadelphia, during: Beddow,
In the Company of Friends.

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   “The amount of physical activity”: Kenneth Tynan, “Matters of Fact,”
New Yorker,
February 21, 1959.

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   “Perhaps in the future”: Brooks Atkinson, “The Theater: ‘Redhead,’”
New York Times,
February 6, 1959.

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   “By the time I got to New York”: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

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   Fosse and Verdon spent weekend time: Jim Henaghan, interview with the author, January 17, 2013.

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   Fosse shied away from large gatherings: Ibid.

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   He loved the Mets, the losers: Pete Hamill, “Fosse,”
Piecework
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), 345.

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   “He admired the difficulty of being”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Going back and forth from the kitchen: Jim Henaghan, interview with the author, January 17, 2013.

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   “made Bob such a nervous wreck”: Cyma Rubin, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.

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   “You could see they really cared”: Leonard Stone, interview with the author, October 17, 2011.

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   He went for drinks with the cast: Ibid.

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   “How d’you do it?”: Vidal Sassoon, interview with the author, November 22, 2010.

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   he’d take a room at the Edison Hotel: Kevin Boyd Grubb,
Razzle Dazzle: The Life and Work of Bob Fosse
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 86.

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   “All I need”: Barbara Rowes, “After Three Coronaries and Critical Surgery Bob Fosse Puts His Heart and Soul into ‘All That Jazz,’”
People,
March 3, 1980.

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   At David Shaw’s house in Amagansett: Shaun Considine,
Mad as Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefsky
(New York: Random House, 1995), 245.

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   He began talks to oversee
Viva!:
Sam Zolotow, “Evans May Star in Play by Shaw,”
New York Times,
April 21, 1959.

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   “Bobby wanted to both direct”: Stephen Sondheim, interview with the author, February 15, 2012.

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   Fosse and Browning split: Tommy Rall, interview with the author, April 20, 2011.

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   “A TV show is put together”: John P. Shanley, “Big Stars and One of the Chorus,”
New York Times,
October 4, 1959.

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   “He was intrigued by the surrealist painters”: Gwen Verdon interview,
Dance in America,
WNET archives, September 6, 1989
.

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   “people all joined together and freaks”: Ibid.

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   Unlike his
Copper and Brass
agreement: Bob Fosse contract, LOC, box 51A.

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   “Fosse told us he was going to be”: Buzz Halliday, interview with the author, November 3, 2011.

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   Fosse devised a series of fourth-wall-breaking: Ibid.

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   “What a rush!”: Ibid.

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   “Part of the work ethic”: Leslie Bennetts, “Bob Fosse—Dancing with Danger,”
New York Times,
April 6, 1986.

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   “I told him, ‘I care as much’”: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   One night in April 1960, Fosse called: Lisa Jo Sagolla,
The Girl Who Fell Down
(Lebanon, NH: Northeastern University Press, 2003), 244.

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   “We married because we were going to”: Robert Wahls, “Gwen Verdon, the Eternal Gypsy,”
New York Sunday News,
June 1, 1975.

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   “I finally decided that I was”: Jan Hodenfield, “Bob Fosse Feet First,”
New York Post,
April 21, 1973.

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   he had begun psychotherapy: Bob Fosse, interview with Dick Stelzer,
Star Treatment,
LOC, box 47C, folder 1.

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   “He knew that in order to be”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Whitehead liked the idea of musicalizing: Sam Zolotow, “Lunts May Star in First Musical,”
New York Times,
March 4, 1960.

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   Lunt and Fontanne didn’t, though, and: Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 120. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   he had been acting strangely:
All That Jazz,
Gwen Verdon interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   Larry Gelbart arrived halfway: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 124.

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   asked about the new lines: Ibid.

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   Slowly, Fosse turned away from the table: Ibid.

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   “She saw it coming”: John McMartin, interview with the author, November 8, 2010.

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   horseback-riding accident: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.

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   Dilantin, an anticonvulsant: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 125.

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   “It was always controlled by something”: Gwen Verdon interview,
Dance in America,
WNET archives, September 6, 1989
.

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   “I got hooked on Seconal and he”: Fosse interview with Dick Stelzer.

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   epilepsy and drug addiction: Gwen Verdon interview,
Dance in America,
WNET archives, September 6, 1989.

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   disgusted Whitehead: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 127.

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   “That ballet frightened the management”: Richard Korthaze, interview with the author, March 24, 2011.

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   “some of the most innovative work”: Beddow,
In the Company of Friends.

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   “Every time a word [of Truesmith’s]”: Margery Beddow,
Bob Fosse’s Broadway
(New York: Heinemann, 1996), 24.

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   “the thicket of unreality which stands”: Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Image or What Happened to the American Dream?
(New York: Atheneum, 1962), 3.

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   “I’m not bothered when people refer”: Bruce Williamson, “All That Fosse,”
Playboy,
March 1980.

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   “Bobby was getting ideas”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 126.

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   “Tom wasn’t right for the part”: Patricia Ferrier Kiley, interview with the author, March 4, 2011.

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   “I thought, watching him”: John McMartin, interview with the author, November 8, 2010.

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   “His behavior became so erratic”: Beddow,
Bob Fosse’s Broadway,
22.

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   “If you watch what happens to rats”: Robert Bilder, interview with the author, March 27, 2011.

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   “This is a busy bee among musicals”: “Musical Opens at Shubert,”
Hartford Courant,
November 23, 1960.

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   Gelbart considered himself available: Larry Gelbart,
Laughing Matters
(New York: Random House, 1998), 204–5.

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   didn’t come for Whitehead either: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 128.

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   Or Poston: Ibid.

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   “I wonder what the Israelis are”: Ibid.

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   “That’s when people started to”: John McMartin, interview with the author, November 8, 2010.

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   I want to do it, Fosse told: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 129.

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   “He’s doing
Pal Joey
”: Ibid.

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   She laughed through it all: Ibid.

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   “It was a folie à deux”: Ibid.

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   “I’ve been fired”: Bill Guske,
In the Company of Friends: Dancers Talking to Dancers III, the Men of Fosse,
videotaped at the New Dance Group, New York, December 9, 2007.

TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS

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   Fosse called Jack Perlman:
R. Fosse v. Producers Theatre, Inc.,
legal papers, LOC, box 43B.

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   “I am hopeful”: Louis Calta, “Fosse in Dispute over Two Dances,”
New York Times,
December 16, 1960.

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   “unreasonably withheld”:
R. Fosse v. Producers Theatre, Inc.

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   “An indication of the troubles”: Howard Taubman, “The Theatre: ‘The Conquering Hero,’”
New York Times,
January 17, 1961.

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   Standing there, he later said: Bob Fosse, letter to Judy Grossman and Diane Rubin, LOC, box 47C.

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   “How the fuck can you have”: Harold Prince, interview with the author, October 6, 2010.

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   “It made him look like he couldn’t choreograph”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “He sat by her bed a long, long, long time”: Ibid.

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   “After my mother died”: Chris Chase, “Fosse, from Tony to Oscar to Emmy,”
New York Times,
April 29, 1973.

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   “Most of what I know about Bob”: Charles Grass, interview with the author, September 4, 2012.

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   seeing another woman: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,”
Rolling Stone,
January 19, 1984.

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   his dad in lipstick: Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 158. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   correspondence with his siblings: Miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 47A, folders 7 and 8.

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   The first time she performed her big: Luke Yankee,
Just Outside the Spotlight
(New York: Back Stage Books, 2006), 101.

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   “Well,” he said: Eileen Heckart interview in Jackson R. Bryer and Richard A. Davison, eds.,
The Actor’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers
(Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers, 2001), 116.

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   “We are going to restage your number”: Yankee,
Just Outside the Spotlight
, 101.

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   “break [the choreographer’s] heart if I did that to him”: Ibid.

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   “You know, Heckart”: Ibid.

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   “Yes, it was quite magnificent”: Bryer and Davison,
The Actor’s Art,
116.

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   “when we wore the little white gloves”: “Dance On: Ann Reinking,”
Dance On with Billie Mahoney,
video workshop for Dance and Theater, August 31, 1983.

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   “Every night”: Ibid.

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   “The high spot”: Richard P. Cooke, “The Theater,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 2, 1961.

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   “I saw Bob in
Pal Joey
”: Tommy Tune, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   “I remember there was an interview”: Stephen Sondheim, interview with the author, February 15, 2012.

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   she found him ambling around: Buzz Halliday, interview with the author, November 3, 2011.

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   Getting away from show business: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Present that season, along with: Arthur Gelb, “Rialto by the Sea,”
New York Times,
August 13, 1961.

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   “This year [East Hampton] seems to”: Ibid.

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   “At the first reading”: Robert Morse, interview with the author, November 16, 2010.

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   “He got us into one big clump”: Donna McKechnie, interview with the author, October 14, 2010.

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   held in rooms without air-conditioning: Ibid.

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   “I’d watch them from the stage”: Ibid.

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   “Because Bob had been fired”: Gwen Verdon interview,
Dance in America,
WNET archives, September 6, 1989
.

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   “The main problem”: Glenn Loney, “The Many Facets of Bob Fosse,”
After Dark,
June 1972.

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   “I took it to its extreme”: Ibid.

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   “On ‘Coffee Break,’ they”: Donna McKechnie, interview with the author, October 14, 2010.

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   all the chorus members: Ibid.

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   which had been passed around: Susan Loesser,
A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life
(New York: Donald I. Fine, 1993), 203–5.

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   Unwilling to part with the number, the team met: Cy Feuer and Ken Gross
, I Got the Show Right Here
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003)
,
228–29.

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   “What did you mean by that?”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
141.

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   “I’ve got an idea”: Feuer and Gross,
I Got the Show Right Here,
229.

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   “The creative person is an absolute”: Moira Hodgson, “When Bob Fosse’s Art Imitates Life, It’s Just ‘All That Jazz,’”
New York Times,
December 30, 1979.

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   “When you stage a dance”: Paul Rosenfield, “Fosse, Verdon and ‘Charity’: Together Again,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 21, 1986.

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   Fosse called them his care pills: Jennifer Nairn-Smith, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “I want to see it full out”: Donna McKechnie, interview with the author, October 14, 2010.