Bob Fosse
1) Chicago
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
2) Lenny
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Depicts troubled nightclub comic Lenny Bruce, his wife Honey Harlowe, and his fatal decline through drug addiction.
Author
Language
English
Description
Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important how for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for that chance-in-a-million role.
5) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
Sally Bowles, an American cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin, becomes involved in the rise of the Nazi party.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this vibrant and spectacular film follows Fosse's alter ego. Joe Gideon in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. His womanizing both supports and debilitates him as he juggles his mistress, ex-wife and beloved daughter. Hovering over all of his excess is an angel. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences, lavish production numbers and fabulous sets."--Container....
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Language
English
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Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.
10) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With Hitler rising to power and anti-Semitism growing, the Cabaret is the only place to hide.
Series
Language
English
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Description
From the two-time Oscar nominated director of Kung Fu Panda comes this critically acclaimed, re-imagined take on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic story. At its heart is 'The Little Girl,' prepared by her mother for the very grown-up real-world. After her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, 'The Aviator' introduces her to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, she learns of 'The Little Prince.' And so begins the magical and emotional journey...
13) Fosse
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the man behind such favorites as "Cabaret, " "Chicago, " "Sweet Charity, " and "Pippin." A mixture of physically aggressive dance moves and dazzling visual style, Bob Fosse's approach to theater revolutionized how we experience music and dance, while his mixture of cynicism and sentiment remains timely decades after his death. Join one of Fosse's most gifted collaborators, Ann Reinking, as she and a wild, gyrating cast take you through...
14) My sister Eileen
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two Ohio girls move to New York City to seek their fortunes: Eileen as an actress, her sister as a writer. Their apartment is a magnet for an assortment of zany characters, winding up with unwanted South American sailors who form a conga line.
15) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.
16) Liza with a "Z"
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1972, Liza Minnelli and Broadway legend Bob Fosse took the Oscars by storm for Cabaret. That same year, the two paired up once again to create the spectacular musical special Liza with a Z, making television history and carting home four Emmys in the process.
17) Chicago
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend!"--Container.
18) Sweet Charity
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hollywood royalty Shirley MacLaine gives one of her greatest performances in this spectacular musical based on Neil Simon's Broadway hit inspired by Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Director Fosse broke new cinematic ground with this freewheeling, visually stunning story of a lovelorn New York dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, who dreams of old-fashioned romance but gives her heart to one undeserving guy after another.
19) Kiss me Kate
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilli Vannessi and Fred Graham, a battling, once-married couple, are reunited to star in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash. But backstage and downstage, viewers get to see lavish numbers and hear wonderful Cole Porter tunes.
20) Star 80
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.