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Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Christine Colby Jacques and Wayne Cilento on Bringing Back Bob Fosse's Dancin'

Dance Magazine: What would Bob Fosse do? The question might arise for any choreographer or director trying to figure out what comes next at a critical juncture in a new musical. But for Christine Colby Jacques and Wayne Cilento, the first question was, what did Fosse do? And only then did they wonder how the Tony-Oscar-Emmy–winning director/choreographer of Sweet Charity, Pippin and the film of Cabaret would tackle their current project: the Broadway-bound revival of Dancin’, the mostly plotless potpourri of freestanding, unconnected Fosse numbers that they’d both been in back in 1978.

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