The bowler hat. The turned-in leg. The hip isolation and the shimmy. The choreographer Bob Fosse (1927–1987) transformed an arsenal of physical tropes into a signature style that didn’t stop. A real theater rat, he brought endless invention and a bit of a leer to the Broadway stage, from The Pajama Game (1954) to Sweet Charity (1966) to Pippin (1972) to Chicago (1975). And then there was his winning work on the 1972 film Cabaret, which he directed and choreographed. Fosse style is not easy to master and his numbers are technically intense and rigorous, which is one reason his 1978 hit, the plotless revue Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, has not been back on Broadway all these years, or, for that matter, in smaller revivals out of town. The year 2023 marks its return, with original cast member Wayne Cilento at the helm. The music comes from all genres, showing Fosse’s range, and honors the man who put sex into the 70s dance boom. —Laura Jacobs