Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
Opening Night: March 19, 2023
Theater: Music Box Theatre
Website: dancinbway.com
Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ is Fosse’s full-throated, full-bodied celebration of the art form he loved and perfected… and then changed forever. Utterly reimagined for the 21st century by director Wayne Cilento – who starred in the original Broadway production – this Dancin’ brims with a level of warmth, emotion, and color rarely seen in modern interpretations of Fosse’s influential style, and features some of his most inventive and seldom performed choreography. With a cast of New York’s hottest dancers and an eclectic score of songs selected by Fosse, Dancin’ delivers the quintessential Broadway experience for Fosse fans and first-timers alike. You think you’ve seen dancing, but you’ve never seen Dancin’ like this!
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March 19, 2023
Right from the start, we’re advised that “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” which opened on Sunday at the Music Box Theater, will be “almost plotless” and include “no messages.”
Is that a challenge or an apology?
In the often-thrilling, often-frustrating revival of the 1978 dancical, which reincarnates the spirit and choreography of Bob Fosse, the two possibilities are much the same.
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March 19, 2023
Sixteen formidable dancers with the endurance of Olympic athletes push through two hours and 15 minutes of hip rolls and bevels, high-flying leaps and fouetté turns to a raucous audience of fans who treat the recital more like a rock concert. Rightfully so, because “Dancin’” is as metal as musical theater gets.
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March 19, 2023
Dancin’, as revived and revised, softens that edge while remaining charged. The new lineup is intentionally more inclusive and edits some of Fosse’s inherent chauvinism.
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March 19, 2023
It’s nice to report that the penis-foot does not make a return visit in “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” and that I enjoyed the show more now than I did in the 1978 when I considered myself an aspiring dancer-writer.
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Those qualities are thankfully not lost in translation in the 2023 revival of Dancin’, the show’s first ever Broadway revival, opening March 19 at the Music Box Theatre. Original Dancin’ cast member Wayne Cilento (nominated in ’78 for Featured Actor in a Musical) seems the perfect fit to bring this joyous terpsichorean celebration back to where it belongs.
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March 19, 2023
Let’s start with this: if you want high-energy, show-stopping dancing, look no further than Dancin’, which opened tonight at the Music Box Theatre. In its first revival since its 1978 premiere, an insanely talented group of dancers take on some of Bob Fosse’s most brilliant work, and it’s a beautiful sight to behold.
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Dancers are athletes; it’s just that America doesn’t always see.
They’ve got superhuman bodies and indomitable spirits, their careers are short, they’re vulnerable to injury, they’re often vessels for the game plans of others and, on a given night, they can mark, fulfill expectations or blow you away as surely as a running back shaking off defenders.
That truth surely dances around your head at “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” the fascinating, if deeply conflicted, new Broadway revival of the hit 1978 revue “Dancin’.”
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March 19, 2023
Sadly, as a homage to a genius choreographer who forever changed the way that we look at bodies in motion, we’re left thinking there’s gotta be something better than this.
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And by doing so, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (as the revival’s title has been stylized) reminds us of the breadth of Fosse’s talent and resurfaces a facet of his legacy we often forget: joy. Dancin’ brims with it — in Fosse’s moves, the dancers’ soaring energy, the lively orchestra, and, thanks to all that, in the audience.
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