All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse - Hardcover

Gottfried, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 055307038X ISBN 13: 9780553070385

Publisher: Bantam, 1990

Synopsis

Drawing on interviews with colleagues, lovers, and friends, this detailed portrait of the award-winning dancer, choreographer, and director describes Fosse's dazzling entertainment career, tumultuous private life, and artistic achievements

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Gottfried, winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism, is the author of Sondheim and All His Jazz, among other books. He lives in New York City, and Amagansett, NY.

From Library Journal:

Drama critic Gottfried, author of Broadway Musicals (Abrams, 1989), brings a wealth of Broadway lore to his biography of choreographer/director Fosse, who made a lasting impact on the dancing style of Broadway musicals. Fosse was a driving perfectionist who had such mega-hits as Broadway's Sweet Charity and the movie version of Cabaret , and such colossal failures as the movie version of Sweet Charity and his last movie, Star 80 , which combines his lifelong obsessions, sex and death. Three times married, the last to Gwen Verdon with whom he had his string of Broadway hits, Fosse was a compulsive womanizer. He remains a likable character despite this and other negative traits which Gottfried does not soften. Gottfried gives a more complete psychological portrait of this contradictory man than Kevin Grubb's Razzle Dazzle ( LJ 10/1/89), which was heavily illustrated. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 8/1/90.
- Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 055307038X
• ISBN 13: 9780553070385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 483