Rising Broadway star Gwen Verdon meets ambitious young choreographer Bob Fosse, beginning a life-long partnership.Rising Broadway star Gwen Verdon meets ambitious young choreographer Bob Fosse, beginning a life-long partnership.Rising Broadway star Gwen Verdon meets ambitious young choreographer Bob Fosse, beginning a life-long partnership.
Brian Calì
- Smokey
- (as Brian Calí)
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- TriviaIn this episode, Susan Misner plays Bob Fosse's second wife, the dancer Joan McCracken. McCracken was a successful Broadway and movie-musical dancer and actress during the 1940s and into the early '50s, appearing in the original Broadway cast of Oklahoma!, and her unconventional lifestyle and first marriage to Jack Dunphy (who after their divorce went on to a lifelong romantic partnership with Truman Capote) have lead her to be one of several women considered to be models for Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's main character, Holly Golightly. As depicted in this episode, cardiac conditions and complications from diabetes made it impossible for her to continue dancing past the mid-1950s; though she was able to take some dramatic, non-dancing roles, she died in 1961 at the age of 43. Like the woman she plays here, Misner is also an ex-dancer: during the 1990s she performed in the choruses of such Broadway shows as Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and she played Liz (one of the "six merry murderesses" who dance the "Cell Block Tango") in the 2002 movie musical Chicago.
- GoofsEarly in the episode, Gwen Vernon says that when she was ten years old she told her father she wanted to be a pitcher for the Boston Braves like Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth never pitched for the Boston Braves during his brief time with the team. Aside from five games he pitched in a Yankees uniform, Ruth did his pitching as a member of the Boston Red Sox.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Sam Rockwell/Jodie Comer/Kiana Lede (2019)
- SoundtracksWhatever Lola Wants
(uncredited)
Music by Richard Adler
Lyrics by Jerry Ross
Performed by Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell
Featured review
Who's Got the Pain?
The non linear story continues. You just have to watch Sam Rockwell's hairline to see if you are in the past, present or the future.
In the second episode Verdon gets to reflect on her relationship with Fosse from Majorca as her marriage disintegrates somewhere at the time of Cabaret. Fosse just could not help playing around.
Of course Fosse was already married when Verdon encountered him. Forced to collaborate as someone thought he would be a good choreographer for her for Damn Yankees. Vedon would win a Tony award. Both of them had been involved in the Burlesque scene which was important in the type of dance they were developing.
It is interesting to see Damn Yankees being developed and both of them being playful to each other and falling in love. However Fosse's second wife at the time was ill, maybe Verdon knew deep down she was also on borrowed time.
It is disconcerting to see Michelle Williams made to look so much like Shirley Maclaine when Verdon looked more like Lucille Ball.
In the second episode Verdon gets to reflect on her relationship with Fosse from Majorca as her marriage disintegrates somewhere at the time of Cabaret. Fosse just could not help playing around.
Of course Fosse was already married when Verdon encountered him. Forced to collaborate as someone thought he would be a good choreographer for her for Damn Yankees. Vedon would win a Tony award. Both of them had been involved in the Burlesque scene which was important in the type of dance they were developing.
It is interesting to see Damn Yankees being developed and both of them being playful to each other and falling in love. However Fosse's second wife at the time was ill, maybe Verdon knew deep down she was also on borrowed time.
It is disconcerting to see Michelle Williams made to look so much like Shirley Maclaine when Verdon looked more like Lucille Ball.
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- Prismark10
- Aug 10, 2019
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