Life Is a Cabaret
- El episodio se transmitió el 9 abr 2019
- TV-MA
- 52min
Agrega una trama en tu idiomaShortly after the failure of his film adaptation of Sweet Charity, Bob Fosse is determined to direct the film version of Cabaret.Shortly after the failure of his film adaptation of Sweet Charity, Bob Fosse is determined to direct the film version of Cabaret.Shortly after the failure of his film adaptation of Sweet Charity, Bob Fosse is determined to direct the film version of Cabaret.
- Jane
- (as Rachel Naomi Hilson)
Argumento
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- TriviaThe episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction.
- ErroresThe episode shows a man performing the part of the gorilla in Cabaret (1972). In reality, it was Louise Quick in the suit.
- Citas
Gwen Verdon: [to Cy Feuer, about Cabaret] You saw what happened with Sweet Charity and with Doctor Dolittle and with Star, each one of them a big fat flop. Kids in the jungle are being zipped into body bags on the evening news. Richard Nixon is our president, God help us. People aren't going to the movies to escape anymore. They're going to find something true.
- ConexionesReferences Como triunfar en los negocios sin realmente tratarlo (1967)
- Bandas sonorasBig Spender
(uncredited)
Written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields
Performed by Bianca Marroquin, Rema Webb, The Fandango Girls
Bob Fosse as a filmmaker went toe to toe with Francis Coppola throughout the 1970s. Cabaret won 8 Oscars to The Godfather's 3. Fosse won the best director Oscar for Cabaret but lost best picture to The Godfather.
However as well as an acclaimed filmmaker, Fosse was foremost a choreographer and a radical leading light in musical theatre.
Fosse/Verdon is a look at the real life relationship between Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and his third wife Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams.) Verdon was a noted a dancer, actress and choreographer in her own right, she was his muse but they had a strained marriage thanks to his roving eye for the ladies, hard living and betrayal.
The first episode was a jumble, it countdowns to Fosse's life who died relatively young thanks to excess. The most interesting aspect was the making of Cabaret. How the producer had little faith in Fosse as director but Verdon did not. She flew to New York to get the best gorilla suit available to back up her husband instead of the comedy suit that the producer wanted. After all that song If You Could See Her From My Eyes had an important satirical point to make.
My biggest issue was that Fosse/Verdon was too safe. It needed to be bolder, I thought the first episode was too sanitised. That would never do for the real life characters.
- Prismark10
- 6 ago 2019