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Jun. 4th, 2019 11:18 pmHas anybody else been watching FX's Fosse/Verdon miniseries -- or as ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
attractivegeekery and I have been calling it, "Snaps, Butts and Hats"? It's the story of Legendary Broadway Choreographer Bob Fosse and Legendary Broadway Dancer Gwen Verdon's wildly unhealthy, codependent, and painfully fracturing partnership!
In all honesty, there are a lot of times when I am neither ready nor excited to sign on for eight beautifully-shot hours of 'unhealthy, codependent, and painfully fracturing.' Fosse/Verdon, however, is a special case; my parents were theater nerds in the seventies when Fosse was at his Fosse-est, and I was just old enough to start being a theater nerd in the nineties, when Broadway decided actually it was time to Fossify all over again; Cabaret and Chicago were seminal texts for me, and don't get me started on my my middle school production of Pippin. When Sam Rockwell's Bob Fosse and Michelle Williams' Gwen Verdon disintegrate repeatedly at each other onscreen in Fosse/Verdon, they do so not only in Style but in a very specific style that it's very difficult for me not to sing along with.
("Who even is this show for besides huge theater nerds?"aquamirage asked me at some point after the first episode, and I was like, "I DON'T KNOW, I'm pretty sure it was written specifically for my mom and possibly not anybody else.")
Also, Michelle Williams inhabiting Gwen Verdon is such a phenomenal work of acting that it's worth the price of admission just to watch her.
Anyway, the whole thing just finished, and I have
( opinions about the ending )
All that said, our household YouTube history is now completely full of clips from legacy Fosse productions, so I guess the show did accomplish its mission really!
attractivegeekery and I have been calling it, "Snaps, Butts and Hats"? It's the story of Legendary Broadway Choreographer Bob Fosse and Legendary Broadway Dancer Gwen Verdon's wildly unhealthy, codependent, and painfully fracturing partnership!In all honesty, there are a lot of times when I am neither ready nor excited to sign on for eight beautifully-shot hours of 'unhealthy, codependent, and painfully fracturing.' Fosse/Verdon, however, is a special case; my parents were theater nerds in the seventies when Fosse was at his Fosse-est, and I was just old enough to start being a theater nerd in the nineties, when Broadway decided actually it was time to Fossify all over again; Cabaret and Chicago were seminal texts for me, and don't get me started on my my middle school production of Pippin. When Sam Rockwell's Bob Fosse and Michelle Williams' Gwen Verdon disintegrate repeatedly at each other onscreen in Fosse/Verdon, they do so not only in Style but in a very specific style that it's very difficult for me not to sing along with.
("Who even is this show for besides huge theater nerds?"
aquamirage asked me at some point after the first episode, and I was like, "I DON'T KNOW, I'm pretty sure it was written specifically for my mom and possibly not anybody else.") Also, Michelle Williams inhabiting Gwen Verdon is such a phenomenal work of acting that it's worth the price of admission just to watch her.
Anyway, the whole thing just finished, and I have
( opinions about the ending ) All that said, our household YouTube history is now completely full of clips from legacy Fosse productions, so I guess the show did accomplish its mission really!
