#gwen verdon
Chita Rivera and Gwen Verdon’s performance of Nowadays at the 1984 Tony Awards
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I can’t stop thinking about how Funny Girl and Chicago are set in the same time period and Nick Arnstein sings to Fanny “You are woman, I am man, you are smaller, so I can be taller than”
And then Roxie Hart sings about her husband in Chicago, “I can’t stand that sap, look at him go, rattin’ on me, with just one more brain, what a half-wit he’d be”
One of them talks about how women are smaller and softer than men and the other is about how stupid men are! In the same time period!! ICONIC!!!!
Gwen Verdon
“In a conversation midway through the glossy yet frequently insightful Fosse/Verdon,Michelle Williams’ seen-it-all Gwen Verdon cozies up to Margaret Qualley’s innocent, in-over-her-head Ann Reinking and tells her that all of the philandering and incorrigible bad behavior of Bob Fosse is worth it for the career-making characters he allows them to play. Williams’ Gwen regards Qualley’s deeply affecting Ann with the fond but arch knowingness of a big sister, declining to cast her as a rival for the heart of the man they both love, perhaps knowing that his heart will always be hers no matter whose bed he resides in. But Williams, not impersonating an icon but appearing to live inside her, isn’t afraid to muddy the waters, to imprint something beyond the legend: her gleaming eyes and persuasive tongue make us keenly aware that Gwen is consoling Ann by selling her on a cycle of personal compromise and professional recompense, a form of artistic collaboration that sounds a whole lot like complicity.” — Matthew Eng
Memorable Moments from Great Performances of 2019
(Source:TribecaFilm.com)
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