Fosse/Verdon is a great, ravishing television drama about theatre, love and life GlobeArts
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while anxious studio bosses try to diminish any overt sexual themes in it. Verdon is helping with the choreography and essentially saving the movie by adding sex to the dancing. Then the series goes almost seamlessly into Fosse prepping and directing the film version ofThere is a wonderful scene in which Fosse demands that real prostitutes be found to sit in the audience of some nightclub scenes. There is a visceral sense of the toil and sweat that went into the radiant dance sequences.
Later, the series – which often amounts to sequences that are more than vignettes but less than full theatre-like acts – dwells on the beginning of the romantic and creative relationship between Fosse and the dancer who would bolster everything he did.
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