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Title

DanceNY. From Broadway: Fosse [videorecording] / WNYE ; Dance Magazine ; a production of Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Warner Vision International, TRIO Network, and Image Entertainment, Inc. ; directed by Matthew Diamond ; produced by Judy Kinberg ; stage production directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking ; choreographed by Bob Fosse ; co-choreographed by Ann Reinking.

Publication

Brooklyn, N.Y. : WNYE, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Diamond, Matthew, 1951-
• Kinberg, Judy
• Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987
• Reinking, Ann
• Maltby, Richard, Jr., 1937-
• Walker, Chet, 1954-
• Loquasto, Santo
• Bridge, Andrew (Lighting designer)
• Harrell, Gordon Lowry, 1940-
• Bhargava, Girish.
• Venza, Jac
• Vereen, Ben
• Moore, Dana
• Christensen, J. P.
• Esse, Parker
• Leamy, Deborah
• Lewis, Robin
• Windom, Christopher
• Alan, Ken
• Arvin, Mark
• Anderson, Brad
• Bachner, Ashley
• Calamia, Lynne
• Lamontagne, Susan
• Croman, Dylis
• Easley, Byron
• Rhodes, Josh
• Gillentine, Meg
• Hawthorne, Anne
• Jovovich, Scott
• Harrer, Suzanne
• Kinney, James
• Monge, Julio
• Moore, Sharon
• Nicklaus, Jill
• Rak, Rachelle
• Liang, Edward
• Fleming, Eugene
• Calamia, Marc
• Will, Ethyl
• Jaffe, Susan
• Kaplan, Barbara Paige.
• Perron, Wendy.
• Clear Channel (Firm)
• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
• Warner Vision International (Firm)
• Image Entertainment (Firm)
• WNYE (Television station : Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (123 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Telecast of a PBS recording (telecast version) of selections from the musical Fosse, with additional introduction and afterword. A longer version of the PBS recording, with more numbers, was commercially released (see *MGZIDVD 5-44 Fosse).

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine.

Series Statement

DanceNY

Uniform Title

Dance Magazine.

Alternative Title

• From Broadway: Fosse
• Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse

Subjects

• Musicals
• Interviews
• Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987
• Video
• Verdon, Gwen

Genre/Form

• Musicals.
• Interviews.
• Video.

Note

• Partly presented in letterbox format.
• Logo of WNYE appears intermittently on screen.
• Tape contains repeat footage: at ca. 62 min. into the recording, the first 2 minutes of the number Rich man's frug are recorded twice.
• For a commercially released, longer version of the PBS recording, without the additional introduction and afterword, see: *MGZIDVD 5-44 Fosse.
• Additional credits for individual numbers from the PBS website, www.pbs.org.

Credits (note)

• Choreography re-created by Chet Walker; artistic advisor, Gwen Verdon; co-conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr., Chet Walker, and Ann Reinking; sets and costumes, Santo Loquasto; lighting, Andrew Bridge; sound design, Jonathan Deans; musical arrangements and supervision, Gordon Lowry Harrell; orchestrations, Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman; produced for the stage by Clear Channel Entertainment; introduction and intermissions directed by Judy Kinberg; editing, Girish Bhargava; executive producer for Great Performances, Jac Venza.
• Credits for WNYE telecast: executive producer, Barbara Paige Kaplan; script writer and commentator, Wendy Perron.

Performer (note)

• Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, with J.P. Christensen, Parker Esse, Deborah Leamy, Robin Lewis, Christopher Windom, Ken Alan, Mark Arvin, Brad Anderson, Ashley Bachner, Lynne Calamia, Susan Lamontagne, Dylis Croman, Byron Easley, Josh Rhodes, Meg Gillentine, Anne Hawthorne, Scott Jovovich, Suzanne Harrer, James Kinney, Julio Monge, Sharon Moore, Jill Nicklaus, Rachelle Rak, Dana Moore, Edwaard Liang, Eugene Fleming, Marc Calamia.
• Interviewees: Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking, Dana Moore.
• Host of WNYE telecast: Susan Jaffe.
• Commentator on WNYE telecast: Wendy Perron.

Event (note)

• Performance recorded at the Broadhurst Theater, New York, N.Y. Originally telecast by PBS on the series Great Performances: Dance in America, in Jan. 2002. Telecast by WNYE, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the series DanceNY, on Nov. 28, 2002.

Contents

• Act One. Life is just a bowl of cherries (from Big deal, 1986) / music and lyrics, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson; performed by Ben Vereen.
• Fosse's world / staged by Ann Reinking; music, G. Harrell, Frederick Loewe; performed by Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking, Ken Alan, and the Company.
• Bye bye blackbird (from the television special Liza with a Z, 1972) / music, Ray Henderson; lyrics, Mort Dixon; performed by Ben Vereen and the Company.
• From the edge (from Dancin', 1978) / music, G. Harrell; performed by Brad Anderson, Marc Calamia, Julio Monge.
• Big spender (from Sweet Charity, 1966) / music, Cy Coleman; lyrics, Dorothy Fields; performed by Ann Reinking and the women.
• Crunchy granola suite (from Dancin', 1978) / music and lyrics, Neil Diamond; sung by Brad Anderson and Eugene Fleming; performed by the Company.
• Transition (inspired by Redhead, 1959) / music, Patrick S. Brady; performed by Ben Vereen and Ken Alan.
• I wanna be a dancin' man (from Dancin', 1978) / music, Harry Warren; lyrics, Johnny Mercer; performed by the Company.
• [Backstage interviews with Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen] / includes reminiscences of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon.
• Act Two. Shoeless Joe ballet (from Damn Yankees, 1955) / music and lyrics, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross; performed by the men.
• Dancing in the dark (from TV appearances, 1949-56) / music, Arthur Schwartz; lyrics, Howard Dietz; performed by Ben Vereen and the Company.
• Steam heat (from The pajama game, 1954) / music and lyrics, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross; performed by Meg Gillentine, Julio Monge, Josh Rhodes.
• I gotcha (from Liza with a Z, 1972) / music and lyrics, Joseph Arrington, Jr. (Joe Tex); performed by Rachelle Rak, Ken Alan, Byron Easley.
• Rich man's frug (from Sweet Charity, 1966) / music, Cy Coleman; performed by the Company. The first two min. of this number are recorded twice on this tape.
• Cool Hand Luke (from the Bob Hope special, Oct. 1968) / music, Lalo Schifrin; performed by Dylis Croman, Byron Easley, Edwaard Liang.
• Nowadays and Hot honey rag (from Chicago, 1975) / music, John Kander; lyrics, Fred Ebb; performed by Meg Gillentine and Dana Moore.
• [Backstage interviews with Dana Moore, Ann Reinking, and Ben Vereen] (ca. 4 min.).
• Act Three. Manson trio (from Pippin, 1972) / music and lyrics, Stephen Schwartz; performed by Ben Vereen, Meg Gillentine, Anne Hawthorne.
• Mein Herr (from the film Cabaret, 1972) / music, John Kander; lyrics, Fred Ebb; performed by Rachelle Rak and the women.
• Razzle dazzle (from Chicago, 1975) / music, John Kander; lyrics, Fred Ebb; performed by Ben Vereen, Susan Lamontagne, Rachelle Rak.
• Who's sorry now (from All that jazz, 1979) / music, Harry Ruby; lyrics, Ted Snyder, Bert Kalmar; performed by the women.
• There'll be some changes made (from All that jazz, 1979) / music, W. Benton Overstreet; lyrics, Billy Higgins; performed by Dana Moore, Susan Lamontagne, Rachelle Rak.
• Mr. Bojangles (from Dancin', 1978) / music and lyrics, Jerry Jeff Walker; sung by Brad Anderson; performed by Ben Vereen and Edwaard Liang.
• Life is just a bowl of cherries (reprise) / performed by Ben Vereen.
• Benny Goodman's Sing, sing, sing (from Dancin', 1978) / music and lyrics, Louis Prima; "Christopher Columbus" by Andy Razaf and Leon Barry; performed by the Company.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7592

OCLC

NYPY04-F295

Title

DanceNY. From Broadway: Fosse [videorecording] / WNYE ; Dance Magazine ; a production of Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Warner Vision International, TRIO Network, and Image Entertainment, Inc. ; directed by Matthew Diamond ; produced by Judy Kinberg ; stage production directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking ; choreographed by Bob Fosse ; co-choreographed by Ann Reinking.

Imprint

Brooklyn, N.Y. : WNYE, 2002.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

DanceNY

Event

Performance recorded at the Broadhurst Theater, New York, N.Y. Originally telecast by PBS on the series Great Performances: Dance in America, in Jan. 2002. Telecast by WNYE, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the series DanceNY, on Nov. 28, 2002.

Credits

Choreography re-created by Chet Walker; artistic advisor, Gwen Verdon; co-conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr., Chet Walker, and Ann Reinking; sets and costumes, Santo Loquasto; lighting, Andrew Bridge; sound design, Jonathan Deans; musical arrangements and supervision, Gordon Lowry Harrell; orchestrations, Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman; produced for the stage by Clear Channel Entertainment; introduction and intermissions directed by Judy Kinberg; editing, Girish Bhargava; executive producer for Great Performances, Jac Venza.

Credits for WNYE telecast: executive producer, Barbara Paige Kaplan; script writer and commentator, Wendy Perron.

Cast

Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, with J.P. Christensen, Parker Esse, Deborah Leamy, Robin Lewis, Christopher Windom, Ken Alan, Mark Arvin, Brad Anderson, Ashley Bachner, Lynne Calamia, Susan Lamontagne, Dylis Croman, Byron Easley, Josh Rhodes, Meg Gillentine, Anne Hawthorne, Scott Jovovich, Suzanne Harrer, James Kinney, Julio Monge, Sharon Moore, Jill Nicklaus, Rachelle Rak, Dana Moore, Edwaard Liang, Eugene Fleming, Marc Calamia.

Performer

Conductor: Ethyl Will.

Interviewees: Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking, Dana Moore.

Host of WNYE telecast: Susan Jaffe.

Commentator on WNYE telecast: Wendy Perron.

Added Author

Diamond, Matthew, 1951- director.

Kinberg, Judy, producer.

Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987, choreographer.

Reinking, Ann, director.

Reinking, Ann, choreographer.

Reinking, Ann, conceptor.

Reinking, Ann, performer.

Reinking, Ann, interviewee.

Maltby, Richard, Jr., 1937- conceptor.

Maltby, Richard, Jr., 1937- director.

Walker, Chet, 1954- conceptor.

Walker, Chet, 1954- choreographer.

Loquasto, Santo, set designer.

Loquasto, Santo, costume designer.

Bridge, Andrew (Lighting designer)

Harrell, Gordon Lowry, 1940- arranger of music.

Bhargava, Girish. Film editor

Venza, Jac, producer.

Vereen, Ben, performer.

Vereen, Ben, interviewee.

Moore, Dana, performer.

Moore, Dana, interviewee.

Christensen, J. P., performer.

Esse, Parker, performer.

Leamy, Deborah, performer.

Lewis, Robin, performer.

Windom, Christopher, performer.

Alan, Ken, performer.

Arvin, Mark, performer.

Anderson, Brad, performer.

Bachner, Ashley, performer.

Calamia, Lynne, performer.

Lamontagne, Susan, performer.

Croman, Dylis, performer.

Easley, Byron, performer.

Rhodes, Josh, performer.

Gillentine, Meg, performer.

Hawthorne, Anne, performer.

Jovovich, Scott, performer.

Harrer, Suzanne, performer.

Kinney, James, performer.

Monge, Julio, performer.

Moore, Sharon, performer.

Nicklaus, Jill, performer.

Rak, Rachelle, performer.

Liang, Edward, performer.

Fleming, Eugene, performer.

Calamia, Marc, performer.

Will, Ethyl, conductor.

Jaffe, Susan, host.

Kaplan, Barbara Paige. Producer

Perron, Wendy. Author. Commentator

Clear Channel (Firm)

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Warner Vision International (Firm)

Image Entertainment (Firm)

WNYE (Television station : Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Added Title

Dance Magazine.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7592