Review: FX’s 'Fosse/Verdon' is a kick and a shimmy and a shake. But mostly it’s a wallow.
Sam Rockwell, left, plays Bob Fosse opposite Michelle Williams’s Gwen Verdon in FX’s “Fosse/Verdon.” By Hank Stuever Hank Stuever TV critic Email Bio Follow TV critic April 8 at 10:00 AM It takes at least a couple of episodes to realize how FX’s intriguing yet uncomfortably icy “Fosse/Verdon” moves in the style of its principal subjects, the late choreographer and film director Bob Fosse and legendary Broadway performer Gwen Verdon.
Theater and dance geeks are down for all this, no question, which is why it’s hard to imagine “Fosse/Verdon” becoming a flashy miniseries 20 years ago, before popular culture went Broadway bananas. The show’s bright marquee of producers includes Tony winners Thomas Kail , Steven Levenson and some guy named Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as Joel Fields, the co-creator of “The Americans.” Fosse and Verdon’s daughter, Nicole Fosse, is also a producer and creative consultant.
Rockwell thrives when conveying Fosse’s manic bursts of creativity and chauvinism; the character is somewhat harder to nail when he’s listless and low. There is one perfectly haunting scene early on where Fosse, at a nadir, imagines himself stepping out, up and over the balcony of the couple’s terrace apartment. The grace with which Rockwell executes those few steps is, well, pure Fosse in movement.
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