If you ask your average New Yorker who Bob Fosse was, they’ll flash on Chicago, still flourishing on Broadway after 48 years. (It’s the longest-running Broadway revival ever.) And they’ll probably conjure up dancers in black, twitching their torsos and slamming bowler hats down over their eyes.
But that’s not all there was to Bob Fosse, as we are about to learn, big-time, with the first Broadway revival of another Fosse show—the all-dancing Dancin’, of 1978—which opens on March 2 at the Music Box Theatre. The Tony-winning revue has been restored and recalibrated by a dedicated group of former Fosse dancers bent on showing the world who their guru really was.