Bob Fosse

Biography of Bob Fosse Robert Louis Fosse’s stage name was Bob Fosse. He was an extremely talented choreographer. He was born into a vaudeville family in Chicago the year of 1972. At the age of thirteen, he was already touring with his own dance company called The Riff Brothers. By the age of fifteen he choreographed his first number in a night club. This act already displayed his sexy dance style by having girls manipulate ostrich feathers to ‘That Old Black Magic’. He developed skills in tap, ballet, jazz and modern styles of dancing. After being in the US Navy, Fosse went to acting school for two years. In 1948, he began touring with the chorus of Call Me Mister. After touring for two year, he ended up danc

on September 23, 1987, during the run of a revival of his 1965 show Sweet Charity. Once he realized this wasn"tmt getting him anywhere he headed back to Broadway. That momentary success in Hollywood was short lived. These four shows alone added up to over 5,000 performances, and Fosse finished with a total of eight Tony Awards. His choreography of My Sister Eileen (1955), The Pajama Game (1957), and Damn Yankees (1958) was well received. He successfully won an Oscar for Cabaret, a Tony for the stage show Pippin and an Emmy Award for Liza With a Z. His lifestyle was hard on his personal relationships. It"tms said that he began balding at age 17 and insisted on wearing a hat. He had three small parts in a few films, including Kiss Me Kate (1958). ing on Broadway in the revue Dance Me a Song. Unfortunately, Fosse worked himself into an early grave. Not long after that Hollywood saw that he had talent and gave him a call. For four years no one in Hollywood wanted to know him.