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| If Bob Fosse had directed FUNNY GIRL?? | |
| Posted by: BroadwayLover 01:23 am EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| Before Garson Kanin took over, Bob Fosse was directing the original Broadway production of Funny Girl. After some tension with Ray Starke, Fosse left the production to direct On A Clear Day, which he also abandoned. How would Fosse's direction have changed the show? More dancing? Sexier? A different slant to the book? | |
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| re: If Bob Fosse had directed FUNNY GIRL?? | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:43 am EDT 08/25/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:29 am EDT 08/25/21 | |
| In reply to: If Bob Fosse had directed FUNNY GIRL?? - BroadwayLover 01:23 am EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| The chorus girls would have been sleazier and moved in a way more slinkier and sexier most likely. Fanny (or someone) might have had a number in which they wore a hat and gloves, and they would have had little isolations of shoulders, fingers and other body parts emphasized in their movements. These kinds of trademarks of Fosse showed up in lots of his shows. However, lots of Ziegfeld girls weren't even dancers -- they and their beauty were displayed in their costumes (sometimes nude) without much movement at all. So Fosse was probably not right for "Funny Girl". Michael Bennett would have been right for it if the show had been done during his prime. | |
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| re: If Bob Fosse had directed FUNNY GIRL?? | |
| Posted by: bobby2 02:27 am EDT 08/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: If Bob Fosse had directed FUNNY GIRL?? - PlayWiz 01:29 am EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| They were nude in the Ziegfeld Follies? Really? I had elderly relatives who used to talk about the follies. I think they'd have been shocked and enraged by that knowing them. | |
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