Fosse (1999 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Notes for Fosse (1999 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: FOSSE IS A TERRIBLE DISAPPOINTMENT
Hit: 2 Stars
If you're a fan of musicals, and enjoy the work of Bob Fosse, you are probably better off seeing the show FOSSE to witness the fine work of Ann Reinking, who recreated much of the choreography, than you are listening to the Original Cast Album. This is a terrible disappointment, destined to be useful in dance classes, but not an especially fine addition to your collection of show music.The performances seem stilted and mediocre on CD. There's more life in a FORBIDDEN BROADWAY rendition of Fosse's work.
If you want an exciting, imaginative recording of a Bob Fosse musical, get any of the albums starring Gwen Verdon or the revival of CHICAGO instead!
Free Music Review: Where's Fosse?
Hit: 1 Stars
On stage FOSSE was overlong but at least enjoyable to see some of his best dance sequences recreated. The show was a fine showcase for some of Broadway's best dancers, and some of the numbers generated real excitement, BUT....we learned nothing about the man the show supposedly celebrates. From all reports he was complex, dark, and driven. The current revival of CHICAGO is more a tribute to Fosse, than this bloated dance cycle. That it won the 1999 Tony award just reflects on how weak the 1998/99 season really was.Translating a dance show to CD is almost pointless. If any of the numbers had been sung with a strong individule style they might have made an aural impact. None of them do. The songs on this CD are all better heard in their cast or soundtrack albums. No one track here is a true standout.
The star of the recording is the orchstra ...which is sensational in re-creating musical styles from cheesy 1960s TV shows to the big Brassy sound of Broadway to the jazzy sounds of Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" which closes the album. (This song should now be barred from being used in any more shows for 10 years having been featured in SWING!; CONTACT and FOSSE!!!)
The Cd booklet has some color pictures, but no notes on the how or why of the show itself.
Those in search of FOSSE are better served by the VHS/DVD release even though it too pales when compared to the show as seen live on stage.
Free Music Review: Who Forgot To Tell Them About Singing Dancers?
Hit: 1 Stars
What almost seems like a feeble attempt to capture the musicality of songs that were popular in the 70's and 80's "Fosse" is what I like to call just a group of dancers trying to sing. Not since "A Chorus Line" has such a musically embarrassing album been produced. The arrangements are filled with underlying tones of funk and "ancient" synthesizer sounds. Not one of the cast members seems to be able to hold their own vocally. The cast of "Fosse" should keep their music in the theater, where I'm hoping (for their sake) it sounds more convincing live.Free Music Review: Awful. Don't buy it, the originals are much better
Hit: 1 Stars
While on Braodway this may have been a great show on the CD it is just an endless display of dance breaks that have been orchestrated beyond recognition. The gaps in this compilation are huge and don't do justice to the work of Fosse. How can the producers justify the fact that he won a Tony for his choeography on "Pippin" and then forget about it. Dreadful.Free Music Review: WHERE ARE ALL THE SONGS?
Hit: 1 Stars
No CABERET, no DAMN YANKEES, no PIPPIN - what IS this album - they have CHICAGO, but the bad songs - not even ALL THAT JAZZ. They chose BAD songs for this CD - the only one which I thought really showcased Fosse's best known was BIG SPENDER. Whoever made this compilation had no brains.