Fosse Sizzles With Nominations
The musical, Fosse is up for eight awards, including Best Musical, as Broadway's finest are honored Sunday night at the Tony awards. The show pays tribute to the work of the late director/choreographer Bob Fosse.
CBS This Morning Co-Anchor Jane Robelot interviews Fosse director/choreographer Ann Reinking and star Jane Lanier.
For some 40 years, director and choreographer Bob Fosse made Broadway dance, from the Pajama Game and Damn Yankees to Cabaret and Chicago.
In 1973 Bob Fosse became the first director in history to win Oscar, Tony and Emmy awards in a single year for the film version of Cabaret, the Broadway musical Pippin and the TV special Liza With A Z.
Fosse is a tribute to this master, and is co-choreographed by Tony award winner Ann Reinking, who also worked with him.
"It was great to see his work is so classic. It comes from a certain era but it's timeless, not dated at all. It was great to see how much work he had left behind," Reinking says.
The musical looks back over approximately 40 years of dance in theater and movies and that, Reinking says, has been a great responsibility.
"It is a responsibility to represent somebody that you respect so much. To represent them well, and to bring out Jane's individuality along with Bob's wants and needs and his point of view. Which is what Bob always wanted, he wanted the individual along with his thoughts."
Jane Lanier is a lead singer/dancer in Fosse. She earned a Tony nomination in Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and appeared in Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Sweet Charity and On Your Toes.
Fosse's eight Tony nominations include Best Musical, Best Featured Performer (Valerie Pettiford, Scott Wise and Desmond Richardson), Best Lighting, Best Costumes, Best Orchestrations and Best Direction.
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