Revival of Bob Fosse’s 1978 Revue Runs More Like an Homage

The new production is directed and musically staged by one of its original cast members, Wayne Cilento, who has added songs and updated orchestrations as well as new sequences to the visionary choreographer and director’s original.

Julieta Cervantes
A scene from the Bob Fosse revival at the Music Box Theatre. Julieta Cervantes

Dance may well be the most demanding and all-consuming of the performing arts. Those who pursue it seriously must be both actors and athletes, and the best have as keen an affinity for musical expression as any singer or instrumentalist. The difference is that, for dancers, the entire body becomes the instrument, so that no part of it — from the toes to the hips to the eyeballs to the top of the head — is inconsequential. 

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