A Reel Education: The Musical!
A weekly podcast featuring Windy Bowlsby
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Jazz Hams! The Fossepocalypse is finally over! (No more roving bands of cannibalistic jazz dancers. No more Death by Jazz Hands. No more Broadway Thunderdome. (Damn, that’s a thing I really want now.)) Join us as we finish talking about the 200
We’re back, Jazz Hams, with our final Fossepocalypse – the bonus round viewing of the Broadway revue FOSSE! This 1999 revue won the Tony for Best Musical that year. Originally conceived by Chet Walker (a regular dance captain for Fosse), the sh
This is is, Jazz Hams. The official conclusion of the Fossepocalypse. (There will be one bonus round after this, but the musical filmography of Mr. Bob Fosse ends here.) We discuss John Lithgow as Michael Bennet stand in, the weird head canon
The Fossepocalypse nears its ultimate denouement as we watch Fosse’s autobiographical masterpiece ALL THAT JAZZ. The movie stands on its own (boy howdy, does it) but oh the layers when you know your Fosse work and history! The egotistical frus
Welcome back to the Fossepocalypse, Jazzhandians, with the capital city located in CHICAGO. This week’s conclusion discusses Little Mary Sunshine, Renee Zellweger as a puppet, and the showstopping Catherine Z-J. We give a lot of love to John C.
Listen up, you jazz babies! This week’s episode is a classic of stage and screen – CHICAGO. The original cast was titanic in talent: Gwen Verdon as Roxie, Chita Rivera as Velma, and Jerry Orbach as Billy Flynn. The 1996 revival featured Bebe Ne
Welcome, listeners, to part two of our discussion of Fosse’s last dance performance on film, THE LITTLE PRINCE. In this week’s episode, we delve into Fosse’s role and performance. Stanley Donen offered Fosse complete creative control to entice
Jazz Hams! We’re back and we’re back in the groove! (Every other week can get weirdly confusing, y’know?) The Fossepocalypse will not be stopped and so this week we bring you Bob’s last dance performance on film – THE LITTLE PRINCE. QUIZ TIME!
Jazz Hams! We’re back! We apologize for missing last week. The new every-other-week schedule collided with CONvergence (Windy’s annual bacchanalia) and the bacchanalia won. We continue our discussion of PIPPIN – both its place in the Fosse oeuv
The Fossepocalypse continues! As we begin our new bi-weekly schedule, we complete Fosse’s 1973 trifecta of drug-induced creativity: PIPPIN. Neither Mike nor Vinnie had ever seen or even really heard of this show until Windy came along with her
The Fossepocalypse is lingering at the apex of Fosse’s GOT year (Grammy-Oscar-Tony) as Windy shows Mike and Vinnie the television special LIZA WITH A Z. After SWEET CHARITY flopped, Fosse feared he would never work again and started lining up p
Welcome back to our discussion of CABARET, with our stunt film virgin Jenny providing her insights, while Mike and Vinnie discover a deeper appreciation for the film. CABARET marks the end of Fosse and Verdon’s marriage, although they never div
Listeners, the Fossepocalypse continues with (arguably) the high point of Fosse’s film career – CABARET. Since all three of your hosts have seen this film before, we brought in our frequent stunt virgin Jenny. Jenny’s thoughts and reactions alo
Jazz hams, we continue our deep dive into the decadent depravity of Fosse with part two of our discussion of SWEET CHARITY. While this was Fosse’s film directing debut, he was unafraid to experiment and found a willing accomplice in his cinemat
Listeners, this week is a real treat – Vinnie and Mike watch Fosse’s film directing debut SWEET CHARITY for the first time ever! This musical was Gwen Verdon’s combined “come back” and “swan song” – she had taken time off to have a child with B
Fine folk of Jazzhandia, this week we wrap up DAMN YANKEES with part two of our episode. Part two is pretty much all Gwen-love. Gwen was Jack Cole’s star dancer who – like Fosse – gave up on being a movie star and headed to Broadway where she m
Jazz Hams! This week’s episode is the exact same production team delivering the goods – yet again – in DAMN YANKEES. This time with a heaping helping of Gwen Verdon! (SIDENOTE: Mike’s mic has a weird echo and we do apologize for the odd audio –
The Fossepocalypse continues with the continuation of our discussion of THE PAJAMA GAME! Steam Heat Once a Year Day Hernando’s Hideaway There Once Was a Man Small Talk Hey There …that’s a half dozen reasons you should seek out this movie right
Jazz hams, the Fossepocalypse continues with the oft-overlooked, and amazingly entertaining THE PAJAMA GAME! As we discuss in this episode, the dances created here actually predate MY SISTER EILEEN. It was his work on THE PAJAMA GAME that got
Jazz Hams! It’s time to begin our season of devotion to the master: Bob Fosse. This is the second episode of the Fossepocalypse because way-back-when (Episode 17, November 27, 2018) we began the Fossepocalypse with KISS ME, KATE. Inspired by t
This week, Jazzhandians, your hosts dive into completely unknown territory: a Japanese musical! Seijun Suzuki’s PRINCESS RACCOON. Based on Japanese folklore, but mostly just coming from Suzuki’s highly visual, stylized, rather bonkers brain – P
Citizens of Jazzhandia! This week’s episode has your hosts (Windy, Vinnie, and Mike) filling in a glaring hole in silent partner Jenny’s filmography – THE MUPPET MOVIE! If it’s been a while since you’ve watched it, let us remind you how absolut
When the movie you were supposed to watch won’t play, you pivot immediately to the colorful and charming ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. The original Broadway production launched the career of a young comedienne named Carol Burnett. Now she takes the rol
This week, your hosts finish our discussion of ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, that star-studded dud of a musical revue. They say that failure is a great teacher, and we certainly learned a lot about what we don’t like, and what doesn’t work, watching this o
Jazz Hams, this week your hosts discover a movie that none of us had seen – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. This movie has been mentioned frequently in other episodes whenever we would check a major movie star’s resume and find that they, too, had also been
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