Poll of the day

[yendi]

Not having had time for any real posting in a while, I figured I'd get a quick poll up instead. Because I just found out that Sweet Charity is coming out on DVD, and that a good number of Fosse and Robbins movies and plays will be arriving on DVD soon, this question has been going through my mind.

(Incidentally, Jerome Robbins' Broadway was where I first noticed a pre-Seinfeld Jason Alexander, who went on to win the Tony for best actor in a musical, and whose rendition of "Comedy Tonight," is, imho, better than Mostel's or Lane's)

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Comments

[yendi]

I'm actually in the "both of them" camp, but I also see where you're coming from. Robbins brought a ballet mentality to the stage, and it shows. I'd call what Fosse did "flash," mostly, which certainly had its place (he certainly recognized the value of sex appeal in movement), but he really couldn't handle a crowd nearly as nicely. Personally, I think both of them will be remembered 100 years from now (if only because of the effects they had on the next generations of choreographers).

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Fosse's choreography is rather cool, but he's a one-trick pony. All his work looks exactly alike. Very little range or breadth, and NO subtlety or nuance. I don't dislike it, but it gets rather boring visually, which he figures the SEX!!! distracts one from.

My opinion. :)

My favorite piece of his, I think, is his dance in Kiss Me, Kate, which is recognizably his style and in such contrast to the rest of the choreography. Although in the context it was a bit too distinctive for one of the the 3 interchangeable suitors, it was pretty cool.

[beachsomewhere.livejournal.com]

Alexander's "Comedy Tonight" better than Lane's? Y'know... I can just about see that.