For theater lovers, the series is sure to be a treasure trove of name-drops, but for casual viewers it’s less accessible. “This is an intimate musical drama, an adult picture,” he tells Fosse. But the series doesn’t want this to look or feel like a traditional biopic, which is good and bad. After investing this much time into this languid investigation of a rancid romance, Gwen’s question about what we get in exchange returns. Fosse/Verdon is an American biographical miniseries starring Sam Rockwell as director–choreographer Bob Fosse and Michelle Williams as actress and dancer Gwen Verdon. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Upbeat, giving, and incredibly talented, the series lights up every time the fantastic Michelle Williams is onscreen — and immediately becomes far duller when she isn’t. Rockwell’s Fosse slopes around the parties and sets, an endless fag hanging from the corner of his mouth, berating dancers, singers, and costumes he thinks fall short of perfection. The animated hit was initially called Route 66 after the iconic road in America, but the title was changed to Cars to avoid confusion with a 60s TV show of the same name. One trusts the biographical rigor of this series — one that was based on a biography by Sam Wasson and that credits Fosse and Verdon’s real-life daughter, Nicole Fosse, as a creative consultant — but it doesn’t catch the imagination the way the best backstage stories do. The fifth episode even takes on a House of Horrors aesthetic, as the couple, along with their new, young significant others, are trapped together over a rainy weekend in a cabin that becomes emotionally suffocating. All of which, much like the depiction of the creative process, feels real enough. Admirers of Fosse’s work will have the work to return to. He has an insatiable and insufferable ego, he’s whiney and needy, and he’s a absentee father (at one point when Verdon drops their daughter off with him, he complains “I’m not a babysitter!” No, Bob, you’re her father). © 2020 Collider Cryptomedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This is never clearer than in a particularly #MeToo moment at his studio, when he pressures a young dancer to give him a kiss, physically pressing himself up against her and drunkenly muttering, “I just want a kiss goodnight, I mean a real kiss, come on let’s just go up and lie down. Original title: Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Your Reader Will Love But the Executive Will Hate. They gave practically everything of themselves to their art — and as a result, have precious little remaining to give any viewer genuinely curious about their inner lives. Bob Fosse’s signature style as a director and choreographer was stripped-down and then askew, removing familiar excesses of movement or film language so that he might replace them with entirely new flourishes. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Review: An Uneven Marriage of Insufferable Ego / Overlooked Talent by Allison Keene April 9, 2019. This family sitcom originally had a longer name, but when star John Ritter – who played the concerned father in the show – suddenly died after filming the third episode of the second series, the show changed its format and name to 8 Simple Rules and Ritter’s death was written into the plot. Despite the time jumps, much of Fosse/Verdon feels sluggish and nonessential. At first, her Verdon seems to be enduring in silence, wearing a kind of clipped dignity as a mask, but as the show goes on we see that their destructive influences work both ways. “Fosse/Verdon” moves through the work its two leads made together, with a chronology that’s just scrambled enough to lend an air of arty oddity while staying user-friendly. "Fosse/Verdon" is a claustrophobic series as opposed to an epic one. Not long afterwards he’s presented as something of a pathetic figure when he is checked into a psychiatric unit and is overworking himself. In the second episode, we learn how the pair met, with a then-married Fosse repeating what had become a well-established pattern of disrupting his home life by forging a new romance during rehearsals. That work was the joint project of two lifetimes, and as a reclamation project publicizing the influence of Verdon on well-loved pieces of theater and film, “Fosse/Verdon” is worthy. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. (A set can shut down to accommodate an errant performer, but onstage, the curtain goes up at eight no matter what.) Click the button below and wait for a message from our Facebook bot in Messenger! Steven Spielberg genuinely thought the title Spaceman from Pluto was a joke suggestion, so it didn’t last long, and was soon replaced by the now iconic name Back to the Future. Executive Producers: Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Fields, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, and George Stelzner. Clearance issues with the estate of Dr Seuss led ABC to change the name of its Christina Applegate-led show, as the original title, Sam I Am, drew on the first lines of Dr Seuss’s classic Green Eggs and Ham. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. The Good Wife’s creators got a call from CBS pushing them to change the title just as it went into production. It was a bold move from screenwriter Adam Herz when he submitted his spec script to studios under the title Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Your Reader Will Love But The Executive Will Hate. Then it hops forward again to the filming of Cabaret. As the first episode opens, Fosse is old, and Rockwell's head covered with a bald suit, but soon we have jumped back to 1966, where Fosse is directing Sweet Charity, his first major film and a major flop. 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