If you wanna slick your hair, wear your buckle shoes…and all that jazz, get yourself into a pair of fishnets and shoulder roll your way over to Broadway Dance Center in NYC: The iconic studio is hosting Fosse Week January 27–31! Fosse Frenzy! Every dancer—especially all you Broadway hopefuls out there—should be well-versed in the […]
Patina Miller (center) as the Lead Player in “Pippin.” Photo by Michael J. Lutch. Once upon a time, about 35 years ago, a college guy fell in love with one of his classmates. She was not interested, which made him sad. The guy, being kind of artsy-fartsy, was a member of an a cappella ensemble. […]
Quick! Think of a musical that epitomizes the Bob Fosse style. Did you pick Cabaret? Odds are pretty good you did. Who doesn’t associate Fosse with fishnet-clad girls vamping to “Mein Herr”? But here’s an interesting fact: The original Broadway production of the now-iconic show, which premiered in 1966, was actually choreographed by Ron Field, […]
Why is Christina Applegate so amazing at everything? First, she was a total rockstar of a guest judge on “So You Think You Can Dance.” Then, this weekend, she hosted “Saturday Night Live”—and proved she can (jazz) walk the walk as well as she can talk the talk in a glorious Fosse sketch. In theory, […]
Every once in a while, Saturday Night Live shocks me by being right on my dance-nerd wavelength. (Have you seen the classic sketch “Bad Ballet“? You should.) Last Saturday, the totally bizarro—and yet spot-on—”Liza Minnelli Tries to Turn Off a Lamp” skit had me on the floor. Not only does Kristen Wiig nail it as […]