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if Fosse were still alive...
#25re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 7:56pm
Um. How can you say you didn't see it... and then continue to suggest why it would have been better if Fosse directed it... I don't get it. Um... but I kinda understand what you're saying. But, I think you're right in that it would have been different. That doesn't mean it would have been better. It would have been different. Off topic, but... Stanley Kubrick didn't like Schindler's List... saying famously "The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler's List was about six hundred people who don't." I don't think he would have directed the movie... so... in that sense it would have been different. It would literally have been a different movie entirely.
kmc
Jesus saves. I spend.
#26re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:43pm
Fosse would have revived Cabaret with Sam Mendes and it would have been less tame that it actually was.
He also may have done Spider Woman and The Life, however I think he might have wanted to concentrate on films.
And about the Chicago film-
It's a brilliant piece of filmmaking. All the people involved with its stage incarnations have praised it and most people, including Fosse's agent, have said he would have liked it very much.
#27re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:58pm
The Chicago film is a far cry from brilliant... and has already shown up on several WORST OSCAR WINNERS OF ALL TIME LISTS. It's pretty common for people in showbiz to fellate each other especially if they've been paid. Also, many of these people would like to be cast again. So, I'm not sure how you can use their opinions to justify it's "brilliance" It is a pretty good adaptation of the musical. As far a piece of filmmaking... it's doesn't really hold it's own as one of the best movies of that year... let alone as one in the cannon of brilliant films
kmc
Jesus saves. I spend.
Updated On: 4/2/06 at 09:58 PM
#28re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:22pm
there ARE some shows that Fosse was not right for.
follies is/was one of them. lord no.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#29re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:35pm
I think a Follies revival with Michael Bennet... this time in full control... would really have been something. Sigh.
kmc
Jesus saves. I spend.
#30re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:41pmyes. i agree... sort of...
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#31re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:08pm
i think Fosse would have done a "Contact" or "Movin Out" piece (wordless, all dance and music) but he would have done it on film first making these "new" productions blaise.
would he have worked well with matthew bourne?
think of how more wonderful "Fosse" would have been with the man actually at the helm, not saying Gwen and Ann didnt do magic, but...
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#32re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:14pmDidn't Fosse do that with Dancin'? Or was that something different?
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#33re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:15pmhey wickedfan, i said ON FILM!
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#34re: if Fosse were still alive...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:24am
Does anyone know why his original dances were not saved in the revivals of Sweet Charity, Cabaret, and the Pajama Game? It really is upsetting to even think about retooling shows that were allready mastered. I think that there was some legal messes between the producers of Cabaret and Reiking. And Sweet Charity (especiallh Big Spender) was a mess.
I really hope that most of the original Chorus Line (I know Fosse didn't do it) dances are kept preserved, or a gasket will be dropped by me, and hurled at those responsible.
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