My Favorite Year DEFEATS Fosse (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)- Page 2
My Favorite Year DEFEATS Fosse (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
#25re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 10:24amFosse
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#26re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 10:25am
As much as I liked Fosse, it had no story .It was a dance piece
Brilliant but a dance piece
My Favorite Year got a critical drubbing (what else is new). I went to see it in a monsoon. I enjoyed it although the lyrics in one song were wrong. In Larger Than Life, the term "porcelin angels " is used. There were no such thing as porcelin angels in pictures palaces. They were all made of plaster.
Getting back to the subject, I vote for My Favorite Year . It was a show that deserved better.
#27re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 10:27amMY FAVORITE YEAR
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#28re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 10:30amFOSSE!
#29re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 10:35am
My Favorite Year
Fosse was the worst experience I've ever had in a theater... and I like Bob Fosse's choreography.
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#30re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 12:31pmMy Favorite Year
#31re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 12:33pmFosse.
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#32re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 12:36pmFosse
#33re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 1:09pmMy Favorite Year
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#34re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 1:16pm
How can you try to even make any comparison between a dance revue (with no plot) over a book musical? You just can't... and I won't.
Though I've been a huge enormous fan of Bob Fosse's work since childhood (mom was a former Fosse dancer -- circa 1964-74), I wasn't all too pleased with FOSSE. No narrative, no costumes, no Gwen Verdon numbers, it goes on. Being friends with numerous cast members who were with the show since conception, I wasn't alone on my assessment of the show. Every single one of the original cast had quite a bit of a beef about the show and what really could have been. An enormous amount of material was considered, but eventually not used. Most feel these were better than what Broadway audiences saw. I still think a JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY-type show would have been a dream, with full recreations of each show's original costume, set and lighting design and WITH a narrator prepping the dance number about to take place, etc. Audiences at FOSSE who weren't familiar with Bob Fosse's work had NO idea what year or from what show the number they were watching on stage came from. Yes, it was listed in the Playbill, but most read it after the fact, and not remembering the dance, etc. At least in the subpar abridged DVD incarnation of the show (featuring the final Broadway cast), they included onscreen captions stating what show the number you were watching came from, etc.
Oh, the show that COULD have been. 
starzilla
Chorus Member Joined: 7/27/07
#35re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 1:31pmMy Favorite Year
#36re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 1:37pm
The only thing I liked about Fosse was the final number...then leaving the theater after what felt like a millenium. Time I shall never recover.
My Favorite Year
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Joined: 12/31/69
#37re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 2:19pm
My Favorite Year!
I played Alice. =]
#38re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 3:42pmDEFINATELY MFY!
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#40re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 4:06pmwow, this one will be close. I'm going with My Favorite Year because it's, you know, actually a musical.
#41re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 4:12pmMy Favorite Year
#42re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 7:59pmFosse!
pushdabutton
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
#44re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/16/08 at 8:27pmMy Favorite Year
#45re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:32amMy Favorite Year
#46re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/17/08 at 3:44ammy favorite year
#47re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/17/08 at 4:18am
I can't vote b/c I don't know MFY at all. But so many people are voting for it that I need to go and get ahold of it now! Thanks for the tip! :)
[Another good thing about what you're doing, Slimandslam. :)
#48re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/17/08 at 9:58ammy favorite year
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#49re: Fosse vs. My Favorite Year (March Madness, Round 1, game 31)
Posted: 3/17/08 at 12:10pmFosse
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