Fosse, Sam Wasson
Fosse, Sam Wasson
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Fosse

Author: Sam Wasson

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Unabridged: 21 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2024


Synopsis

Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.

“Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times

“Fascinating . . . Wasson has taken complete control of his subject.” — Wall Street Journal

The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment. His signature style would influence generations of performing artists. Yet in spite of Fosse’s innumerable—including Cabaret, Pippin, All That Jazz, and Chicago, one of the longest-running Broadway musicals ever—his offstage life was shadowed by deep wounds and insatiable appetites.

To craft this richly detailed account, best-selling author Sam Wasson has drawn on a wealth of unpublished material and hundreds of sources: friends, enemies, lovers, and collaborators, many of them speaking publicly about Fosse for the first time. With propulsive energy and stylish prose, Fosse is the definitive biography of one of Broadway and Hollywood’s most complex and dynamic icons.

“Spellbinding.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Impeccably researched.” —Vanity Fair

An NPR Best Book of the Year

About Sam Wasson

SAM WASSON is the author of five books including the best-selling Fosse and Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. He lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on October 21, 2020

After reviewing the entertaining FX miniseries Fosse/Verdon a month ago, I became very curious about the book the show was based on: Sam Wasson’s biography of the legendary director and choreographer Bob Fosse. I’m glad I read it, even though carrying the thick brick of a book around practically dis......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on December 14, 2013

One of the biggest problems with a book about a dancer/choreographer is that no matter how colourful the descriptions (and Wasson REALLY likes description…) you can’t see the performances. I found myself going over and over again to YouTube to look for clips so that I could actually see what was bei......more

Goodreads review by Skip on December 10, 2013

In some ways I think I know the author of "Fosse," Sam Wasson, about as well as he wants us to know the mercurial, obsessed genius/fraud/friend/lover/motherfucker that apparently was Bob Fosse. As much as Fosse possessed others in his ceaseless search for art through love-or was it love through art?......more

Goodreads review by V. on November 22, 2013

"How much time do I have?" asks Bob Fosse at the start of Sam Wasson's biography of the director and choreographer. Sixty years, as it turns out, as Wasson's chapter headings turn into a relentless countdown of the years--and later, minutes--left before his last, fatal heart attack. It's an effectiv......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 17, 2016

I have never been so happy to come to the end of a book as I was when Fosse ended. It is a well researched and written book but I so disliked Bob Fosse after the first 5 pages that it wouldn't matter how brilliantly the book was written. I have been watching clips of his dances between reading the b......more