Dancin' '78 Tonys, FOSSE '99 Tonys

I saw both shows. When I saw Dancin' is was less than a week before its offical opening on Broadway. The dancers were on FIRE!! I bought a last minute ticket from someone in front of the theater (maybe it was $15) and wound up in the sixth row (a bit on the side). My mouth stayed open in amazement for most of the show (not all the numbers were stellar), yet it REMAINED open for the entire number of SING SING SING. Yeah, the show Fosse was a nice way to memorialize Bob Fosse. yet the difference was like seeing an original painting and seeing a print of that painting. RIP Ann Reinking!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should really be called Gene Krupa's "sing, sing, sing." It belongs to him.

It’s interesting that they kept the flavor and spirit of Fosse’s choreography but made subtle changes in the intervening years.
And to think that he made his personal flaws as a dancer into strengths of performance!

I found this so moving ... all the dancers are gifted ... working very tough routines...well done Gail and her dancers for doing this after a Matinee performance earlier.

The only female that can beat Ann Reinking in dancing the Fosse is Gwen Verdon. I saw Ms. Reinking in Annie (the original movie) around 2015 and I didn't know who she was and I was impressed with her dancing -- the gracefulness and her kicks.

Both are great. But how can you beat the Fosse dancers in the 1978 Dancin production including Ann Reinking, Wayne Cilento, Vicki Frederick, Christopher Chadman, John Mineo, Charles Ward and Karen Burke? These dancers and the others in the cast were superb and cannot be compared to the dancers in Fosse, great dancers but not of the same caliber, no disrespect intended. Plus having Fosse direct Dancin makes such an impact on the whole show. I'm glad that they produced Fosse because it's a great homage to Bob Fosse and the dancers who came before them. But they're not the same.

I just wanted to say I saw this in NYC, and loved it.

70s version seems more individualized. I’m paying attention to each dancer. They have personalities. 90s version is too grey and bland and they all just blend together.

This is just remarkable choreography

Go Gail!! Thats fabulous !! Dancers are my heroes,, I cant dance !

Second version (cast) is much cleaner, sharper, and gets the inter-beat gestures more definitively. The first version looks like there are some last-minute stand-in substituting in--shaping is irregular, timing is off, the whole piece doesn't tell the story the way the second version does.

Great

They were both pretty amazing, but I did like the '78 version better. Costumes and dynamics of the cast was stellar!

I see it live in 1979. NY. It was really great.

was Fosse secretly a revival of Dancin'?

the second one feels like it’s too “polished” looking and lacks the darkness and sense of humor from the early performances..

Мужская партия такая точная тонкая пластичная мягкая. Но почему женская партия такая грубая, вульгарная, почти карикатурная?

when life was good.

Yes! I was there in 1978 and just gave the original poster to a friend to day Dec,2022 for a Christmas present

I love how masculine the men are moving and how feminine the women are moving. This is one of the all time most exciting dance numbers of ANY kind ever. Love you, Fosse and miss you. And love all you masterful Fosse dancers. Often imitated. Never replicated.

Super Bob Fosse ❤🎉

Yes Fosse dancers recreate the steps brilliant, but when you see the original cast of Dancin’ there’s more something behind the steps, a story behind each step - when the master isn’t there!!!!! When I see the fosse dancers (frm the show fosse/a tribute to him)brilliant dancers but there is a depth, a profoundness missing

The later performance is missing the languidness and looseness of the earlier version. As if they are forcing their joints into position. The earlier dancers seem more natural and comfortable with the shapes. Perhaps that's due to dance styles popular in the 80's versus the 60's when these dancers were developing and training.

Bob Fosse. I saw this show and I hated when it ended.I wanted more dancing .It was wonderful.I love both versions.I've worn out my DVD of the show.

Remember when Robin Williams did an imitation of Fosse. Oh, man! I dearly wish he was back among us. Just not so horribly depressed.

Dancin’ came out before I got to Broadway, but what is most notable is Miss Reinking didn’t use her name to do anything better. She was happy dancing ing the chorus and to her credit did absolutely Nothing to draw attention to herself. We all know most “Stars” would attempt to pull our attention toward them. What an enormous flame we have lost in entertainment. A triple threat, start to finish. Certainly missed.

Even HERE, San stands out above everyone else. She was always in a higher league. 😮‍💨

The second version has no hats. I can’t wrap my brain around that.

We danced Sing Sing for the governors inaugural ball years ago and the band just kept playing faster and faster as the song went on😂😂 funny now, not so much then

Hinton Battle is in the 78 performance I believe. RIP to a legend

Ann Reinking. May she rest in peace.

Out-of-this-world wonderful. Amazing. Fosse, what a dancer. What a choreographer. I wish l could have seen the original number from "Dancing Dancing" with the black costumes from "Fosse". FWIW, l found the razzle-dazzle of the costumes got in the way of actually SEEING the dancing. Too many sequins and flapping zoot suits.
The energy and precision of the original is palpable. But everything is so much easier to SEE in the second, even if it is more subdued stylistically... my $.02...

They are both great but the original is worlds better in my opinion. The is a freeness to the original that the second one lacks. It is almost like the revival they are trying too hard to dance Fosse.

I think the biggest difference between Bob Fosse’s and Tommy Tunes’ choreography is that Bob truly loved women’s bodies and all they could do. Bob brought out the sultry and sexy. Amazing. Made me wish I was one of his dancers. ♥️♥️♥️

Knowing that Sing Sing Sing eas meant for couples to dance, and the rebival of swing a few years ago, it seems odd and a little sad how all these peopleare dancing by themselves.

I saw Bebe in this twice, and she was great. I've seen it twice since and just not the same. The 2nd time I saw her in it was really special--a lot of her friends were in the audience (we saw Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito and their chikdren, and Jimmy Smits, and supposedly Kelsey Grammar and others were there). Anyway, the cast knew it was a big night for Bebe and had some fun with it--they repeated some cue so that she had to do one of her big, tiring dance pieces all over again. She laughed and threw herself into it again. It was just astonishing to see what she could do as I only knew her from her drab role on Cheers.

As a non dancer, It's really neat to watch a performance where you don't know the choreographer but you can pick out all the classic Fosse elements.

This is why I love Fosse! Ever part of the body is used and it just shines !, Great performance!,

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Amo a Fosse y a su musa Ann Reinking. Que suerte que existieron y dejaron su impronta.

Bob Fosse grew up in Chicago in my fathers neighborhood. Fosse said he was influenced by the burlesque dancers he saw at the Rialto theatre in Chicago. My father and a lot of the boys would skip school to see the comedians dancer etc. one day their principal followed them on the train and the all the kids were caught. I thought that was a funny story.

Che bravi

I loved EVERYTHING about DANCIN. ABSOLUTELY nothing like before, now or hereafter...and you have got to be in the theater!!!!!

Can’t describe what I saw back in ‘78 - I loved Fosse before but now I saw the genius of his style; He was and remains ‘Dancin’ pure and simple

Nadie ha podido igualar este número… son impresionantes !!!!!!

When music dances ❤❤❤

ANN REINKING❤

Damn. Sandahl, Ann, Vicki - who could be better? 💓