Fosse (95 page)

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   “Our family has never taken death”: Chayefsky Funeral Arrangements, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Paddy Chayefsky Papers, box 166, folder 9.

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   “In ‘And All That Jazz’”: Susan Stroman, interview with the author, January 14, 2011.

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   After a tech run at Boston’s: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

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   “I wanna smell you girls”: Susan Stroman, interview with the author, January 14, 2011.

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   “You could see his joy”: Maxine Glorsky, interview with the author, September 7, 2010.

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   “It was like applause”: Ibid.

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   “Is he dead?”: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

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   “It scared him”: Ibid.

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   “As soon as we got together”: Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal.”

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   “Sign this or I’ll kill you”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of
All That Jazz.

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   “So what do you think”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   line around the theater for two hours: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   for as many as six hours: Ibid.

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   “He didn’t want to see your technique”: Ibid.

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   “We were afraid the show was not”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   Jill Cook brought a snake: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “That show’s a huge hit”: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

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   “Gail”: Ibid.

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   “Everyone was fighting for”: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

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   “He really liked Sandahl”: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   Savage reasoned that Fosse thought his open: Ibid.

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   But Bergman didn’t take Fosse: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

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   “You know,” Fosse said: Ibid.

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   “looking like a raptor”: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “I’ve really tried to vary my choices”: Robert Berkvist, “‘This Show Is about the Sheer Joy of Dancing,’”
New York Times,
March 26, 1978.

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   “One valve is still partially clogged”: Ibid.

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   the producers asked the dancers to: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

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   “We were always together on that show”: Ibid.

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   “Everyone was talking about it”: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “It was obvious yuk-yuk humor”: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   “It was like he was killing Charles”: Don Rebic, interview with the author, February 28, 2011.

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   Drummer Allen Herman recalled they kept: Allen Herman, interview with the author, March 3, 2011.

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   “I remember looking at the Trumpet”: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   rerouted Fosse’s dancers: Ibid.

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   The production hired horse-drawn carriages: Eric Angelson, interview with the author, June 27, 2012.

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   Stagehands met dancers at the station: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   down into the basement, where a strip: Ibid.

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   brought on two more in Boston: Ibid.

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   “It was absurdly hard”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   for a few
Dancin’
dancers, the only: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   “We were so tired”: Ibid.

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   “I haven’t been asleep for three days”: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “Don’t spend your life at the mall”: Diane Duncan, interview with the author, April 9, 2011.

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   “You look tired”: Ibid.

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   Reinking’s relationship with Ward: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “All she wanted to do was please him”
and following:
Allen Herman, interview with the author, March 3, 2011.

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   who appeared one day in Boston, dressed: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   Months earlier, he had had the idea to: Kevin Kelly, “Fosse, at 58, Finds No Security in Success,”
Boston Globe,
February 9, 1986.

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   “He really knew the way”: Jessica Lange,
Inside the Actors Studio.

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   Suspecting another man in her life, Fosse: Kelly, “Fosse, at 58.”

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   “All of our eyes popped out”: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   The following day she came late: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “It’s not just
your
rehearsal, Annie”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   “René,” he said into the hush: Ibid.

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   “They’ve forgotten there’s a thing”: Berkvist, “‘This Show Is about the Sheer Joy of Dancing.’”

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   “Precision and style mark the evening”: Richard Eder, “‘Dancin’,’ Fosse’s Musical, Opens at the Broadhurst,”
New York Times,
March 28, 1978.

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   “Fosse knows his limitations”: Arlene Croce, “Broadway Downbeat,”
New Yorker,
April 24, 1978.

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   Fosse called Ann Reinking from Payne Whitney
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “You can’t kill love”: Ibid.

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   Removing sex only nurtured the friendship: Ibid.

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   “You can’t live without trust”: Ibid.

NINE YEARS

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   “I want you to do the Gwen”
and following:
Linda Posner (Leland Palmer), interview with the author, July 23, 2010.

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   Reinking he made audition for: Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   Fosse ran hundreds of girls: Jennifer Dunning, “Serene Young Hoofer of ‘All That Jazz,’”
New York Times,
January 11, 1980.

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   “You’re not going to read a hundred”: Larry Mark, interview with the author, September 17, 2010.

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   Erzsebet Foldi, a twelve-year-old student: Erzsebet Foldi, interview with the author, January 26, 2011.

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   “Will you light my cigarette?”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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“You got the job”: Ibid.

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   He suspected Dreyfuss was talking to: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   “In my test, they were fighting”: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

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“I can’t get up there with”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of
All That Jazz.

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   “I don’t think I want to do”: Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   Then Aurthur told Fosse
and following:
Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 374. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   Alan Bates?:
All That Jazz
casting correspondence, LOC, box 48A.

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   “I told him all of the silly, wild”
and following:
Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   Shutting down, the crew took: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   Often, Scheider would follow Fosse: Ibid.

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   “Roy was so committed”: Don Rebic, interview with the author, February 28, 2011.

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   Fosse worked on Scheider’s cough: Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   “People were dropping like flies”: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   Wayne Cilento pulled his hamstring: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

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   Gail Benedict took a spill: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   Colby had consented to swing: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   “[Dancer] Jill Cook would stand”: Ibid.

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   “Any dancer that lasted more”: Allen Herman, interview with the author, March 3, 2011.

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   “It was a free-for-all”: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

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   “I had to drag myself up the railing”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   Those days, a masseur came: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   “once more, kids, do it once more”: Eileen Casey, interview with the author, January 31, 2011.

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   intended to soften Gideon, as per: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of
All That Jazz.

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   “What do you think Joe would say”
and following:
Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   “Bobby would talk to him throughout”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   He dispatched five cameras to scavenge: Betty Spence, “Bob Fosse—He’ll Take the Risks,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 17, 1981.

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   ended up taking seven: Ibid.

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   “I’m going to do in fifteen minutes”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   but was basically excluded: Ibid.

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   “Bob dropped him”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   The biting pain in Aurthur’s side persisted: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
381.

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   “He thought Fosse was killing him”: Murray Schisgal, interview with the author, September 24, 2012.

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   strategy meetings with Melnick
and following:
Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
381.

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   “If I die before Fosse”: Paul Rosenfield, “Long, Winding Road of ‘Jazz,’”
Los Angeles Times,
January 6, 1980.

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   Fosse finally visited Aurthur: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
381.

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   he got the news: Ibid.

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   “[producer] Kenny Utt came in”: Jerry Jaffe, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

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   Per Aurthur’s will, a memorial party: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
382.

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   “Who’s going to do yours?”: Ibid.

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   “With each movie he got”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “Fosse had nobody looking out for him”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   “Wolf and Kathryn were his caretakers”: Ibid.

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   “His favorite was the hip operation”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “What is it like if you’ve been through”: Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   “I was surprised”
and following:
Nancy Bird, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

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   “I’d say more than fifty percent of”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   Cast and crew buses left Columbus Circle: Jerry Jaffe, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

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   “At seven o’clock”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   “Dailies are for work, not for popcorn”: Ibid.

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   “Peppino, what would Fellini do here?”: Bob Fosse/Federico Fellini correspondence, May 15, 1981, LOC, box 49A.

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   “No one was even allowed to laugh”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   shooting ratios of twenty to one: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “It made it difficult to move”: Ibid.

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   “At times, Alan felt like he was”: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

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   “a process of slowly waking up”
and following:
David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   “There’s no dress rehearsal for life”
and following:
Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

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   mostly unchanged since the forties: “Billion Dollar Backlot,”
All That Jazz
press release, Twentieth Century Fox.

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   Danny Ruvolo, originally cast in the part: “Danny Ruvolo, 22, in Car Crash; Danced in ‘Chorus Line,’ ‘Rex,’”
New York Times,
November 22, 1978.

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   he was incredibly nervous the day of the shoot
and following:
Keith Gordon interview,
http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/feature-articles/keith_gordon/
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   “That’s exactly what it was like”: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

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   “What’s going on here?”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.