"Fosse" is here again, back in Japan after its first, hugely successful tour last year mobilized 100,000 fans of the late choreographer-director-actor-dancer Bob Fosse's astonishing oeuvre.
Directed by Ann Reinking, a main dancer in many of Fosse's Broadway dance-musicals, such as "Dancin' " (1978) and "All That Jazz" (1979), and one of his favorite pupils, this production is a greatest-hits celebration of the groundbreaking technique and sensual style of the chain-smoking American master who died of a heart attack in 1987 at age 60 -- by which time he was already a legend in the history of contemporary dance.
The son of a vaudevillian whose trademark was sexual suggestiveness, Fosse was the first director ever to win a Tony for a stage work ("Pippin"), an Oscar for a movie ("Cabaret") and an Emmy for a television production ("Liza With a Z") in the same year -- 1973.