Bob Fosse
I am Bob Fosse, a famous dancer and choreographer. I took movements and images from burlesque halls and nightclubs, crafted them into a signature movement style, and conceptualized Broadway shows, television specials, and movies that relied on that signature style to razzle-dazzle my audience ("Hall of Fame"). I was a genius at creating entertaining dances filled with hunched shoulders, limp wrists, turned in legs, and thrusting hips ("Hall of Fame"). I often called the en masse amalgamation of my moves the "amoeba" because it describes my particular style, one at once fluid and angular (Zaremba).I was the first director ever to win the Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award in a single year ("A Musical"). My work on Broadway, for which I won 9 Tony Awards, include The Pajama Game, Bells are Ringing, Redhead, Little Me, Sweet Charity, Pippin, Chicago, Dancin', Damn Yankees, New Girl in Town and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ("A Musical"). My film work includes the classics Sweet Charity, Lenny and All That Jazz ("A Musical"). I was born on June 23, 1927, in Chicago, Illinois (Zaremba). The son of a vaudevillian, I was practically born into theatre ("Biography"). As a child I began dancing as a way
During that time I married my second wife, a dancer and a performer named Joan McCracken (Zaremba). Chain-smoking caught up on me and I suffered a heart attack while working on Chicago ("Biography"). At age 15 I choreographed my first number in a nightclub, in which the girls manipulated strategically placed ostrich feathers to Cole Porter's That Old Black Magic ("Biography"). There I danced and sang in three musicals, including Kiss Me Kate (Zaremba). It was while collaborating on Damn Yankees that I met my third wife Gwen Verdon (Zaremba). I like, not exactly sad, but melancholy endings because they seem more true to life (Zaremba). Gwen and I danced together in the film-version of the show that I also choreographed, in the "Who's Got the Pain?" number (Zaremba). In 1969, Sweet Charity was translated to the big screen in what was my first crack at directing a motion picture (Zaremba). While performing in Kiss Me Kate, I was given the opportunity to choreograph a short section of a dance for Carol Haney and myself ("Hall of Fame"). My last original show on Broadway was Big Deal in 1986 ("Hall of Fame"). I directed Chicago, my next big smash, in 1975 (Zaremba). The show was a major success and my dance "Steam Heat" was a showstopper ("Hall of Fame"; Zaremba). After a period as a performer in the armed service, I picked up work dancing in films, and had fantasies of becoming the next Fred Astaire ("Biography"). I advanced art of stage choreography with my many successful shows, as well as show direction and conceptualization ("Hall of Fame").
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