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Fosse

Bob Fosse was a renowned choreographer and director known for his innovative work in theater and film, winning numerous awards including 8 Tony Awards. He faced personal challenges such as health issues and tumultuous relationships, notably with Gwen Verdon, while making significant contributions to the arts, including the film 'Cabaret.' Fosse's legacy includes a unique style that influenced modern dance and theater, earning him a place in the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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Fosse

Bob Fosse was a renowned choreographer and director known for his innovative work in theater and film, winning numerous awards including 8 Tony Awards. He faced personal challenges such as health issues and tumultuous relationships, notably with Gwen Verdon, while making significant contributions to the arts, including the film 'Cabaret.' Fosse's legacy includes a unique style that influenced modern dance and theater, earning him a place in the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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1.

He was named after the Treasure island author Robert Louis Stevenson
2. He was briefly in the navy
3. He turned down doing Michael jackson’s thriller music video
4. He though he was going to die young
5. Lots of his family had heart attacs and he thought he was next (he was
he had a lot of heart attacts and eventuly died of one at the age of 60)
6. He has the most tony awards for choreograghy tan anyone else
7. He was left handed
8. He was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1951
9. He hd a fear of flying
10. His first show he choreographer for was Pajama games
11. He resived three emmy awards in 1973 for liza with a Z
12. Fosse always wore a hate because he was starting to go bald
13. He didn’t like his hand which is why he was so into gloves
14. Fosse was born in Chigago
15. He never officaly divorced Gwen Verdon
16. He was a hevey smoker forever
17. He was on the swim team in high school
18. He was the only boy in his dance school growing up
19. He would get behind the camera sometimes when filming his
work so he so he could make sure his shots where perfect
20. He was one gramy away from an egot which we know he got in
one year
21. But they sepurated in 1970
22. Fose died in Washington D.C.
23. He won 8 tonys out of 20 nominations
24. He almost made a filmed version of Chicago with Madonna
25. He idolized fred Astaire
26. Intucted into the American theater hall of fame in 1979
27. Hes only directed two films cabaret and all that jazz
28. He would try and see all fred astaires fils]ms and would imitate
the dances
29. He one 1 tony for director and 7 for choreoghy
30. Bob was the 5th child in his family
31. He has two older sisters
32. And two older brothers
33. His work (Mexican breakfast) heavily inspired single ladies
34. Gwen got her break in can can dancing
35. He changed the firlm world with cabaret and its quigh cuts and
fast pase editing style
36. He won the directing over for cabaret over the god father
37. He was perfoming as a professional dancer by age 13
38. He was one of the first people who wanted the ensable to all
have there own characters not just e a moving mob
39. He was one of the first people to do integrated casting.
40. He was known to spend hours on 8 counts
41. He has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame
42. He made the first broadway commercial for pippin
43. he performed wth Charles Grass in the riff brothers at age 13
44. he was surrounded by burlesgue dancers from the age of 13 up
45. By age 15 he started chperpgraghing by himself
46. He graduated highschool right intime for ww2
47. When he was in the navy he was at the naval station great lakes
48. He complained to his superiors that he was being wasted in the
navy and he wanted to be in the special services entertainment
division
49. His direct superior did not care or agree
50. He was not an actor and so he had to go to newyork to learn.
51. Mary Ann Niels was fosses first wife
52. He married his first wife in 1947 in detroit
53. He was working int dance me a song when he meet his second
wife
54. Fosse divoerced his first wife and married Joan Mcracken
55. His fist performance credict was pajama games
56. His third was Gwen Verdon
57. She won a tony before meeting Bob
58. Verdon was considered a snob
59. Verdon being a snob and fose being picky lead to some evry
passion feeling
60. Fosse and Verdon where a team in dance and there life
61. Fosse and Verdon where in love while fosee was still with
hssecond wife
62. He devorsed Mccracken even when her illness wahst getting
worse
63. Nicole fosse was born in 1963
64.

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