Rich Man's Frug - Fosse 

You are fabulous!

@@christinebailey9935 she's not the dancer in this video....

elphbwckd who is?

Its only a poor imitation of the original dance :(

How absolutely fabulous..and how absolutely fabulous you were ♥️

I would have to agree

It has nothing to do with film versus stage. Most of the dancers in the film did the original stage work. The change is in the dancers. All the women are too muscular. There has been a change in the since the original dancers of the 60s & 70s versus today. Contemporary dancers lack flexibility in their backs, shoulders and neck. Their isolation moves are almost non-existent. Their musculature (all due to overbuilding) is getting in their way.

I do not believe that, No doubt Suzanne Charney is little thinner built than Meg Guilintine but I still think its not a problem, might be in the choreography for the Fosse review. I am not a professional dancer, nor did I see the original play but I liked them both and I did like the movie version of the rich mans frug over the Fosse review version, with Meg Guillentine. I do like Meg Guillentines dancing.

You are mistaken about my criticism. I'm not stating that anyone in this video is a bad dancer. I'm saying they are miscast. Their body types are the not the types Fosse chose to choreograph on. This dance absolutely requires long, ballerina body types with very long arms. Those are not the women in this video. The training of today's dancers is obviously worlds different from the dancers of the 50s, 60s and 70s. They are overbuilding their muscles.

The lead dancer here is Jill Nicklaus not Meg Gillentine.

Agree. Some dancer's lines are off. I don't fault them, but the dance captain, choreographer, or director should have given more feedback and held the bar higher. Fosse was a perfectionist and task-master and refused people to "mark it" in rehearsals. Granted film allows you to re-take shots if there's an error and you get a more polished result by the nature of the medium.

HI guys.. Not sure what you mean by "lines off" or "marking it"... Anne Reinking and Kathryn Dobie(Bob's dance captain on all his shows) personally cleaned and worked every number before we taped this for PBS. I get that peoples perception of dancing is very subjective. But I'm hear to tell you that all our lines were exactly where they should be and NO ONE was marking.. Take it from someone who was actually doing it!

I didn't intend to infer anyone was marking it. I mentioned it to stress how Bob worked. My apologies for that, it just came out wrong. Some examples: 0:42 the lean back between the two female dancers is different. The one on the right is better. They should match. This pose is inconsistent by different people in the number. 1:28 the men are not strutting in the same posture. Some are properly leaning forward chin out, butt back, others are walking with a straight back. 2:29 arms not together on the beat. Regardless, it's a good performance. Bob's work is hard. But his generation were sticklers for consistency and overall look across the entire ensemble. It could have been tighter. Still it's a very good performance. It's hard to match expectations from original material that's iconic. Thank you for your hard work keeping his work alive.

it’s more likely the editing and illusion of perfection that is harder to pull of irl than in a well created movie, video or television.

hebneh actually it was “The Aloof”, “The Heavyweight “, and “The Big Finish”. The entire sequence was “The Rich Man’s Frug”

hey i was taught in musical theatre when you do fosse it’s always all black haha! just a little tidbit! i think he is associated with a dark color scheme

When my school did it in the fall of 2017, we intentionally painted the stage floor with large pink stripes for that reason

It’s on purpose tho, so that the skin and hands pop to draw the eye to the subtle movements and makes the big movements bigger

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ITA. I wish they had preserved the OBC for video.

When did she yawn?

@@mitchellyoung5564 I bumped into her clone during the 90's. The girl in the Rock the Cradle of Love video, by that Billy Idol guy. Her name is Betsy, and I kid you not, they could have been sisters.

Jill Nicklaus.

I agree