Why Fosse Was So Influential
Of Bob Fosse, who would have just turned 90 were he still around, Lisa Rosman writes: ‘Every major icon of the last forty years owes much to Bobby, as his friends called him – from Michael Jackson to Liza Minnelli to Madonna to Britney Spears to Lady Gaga and even Beyoncé. Fashion would not be fashion without his exposed garter belts and fishnet stockings – more of his backstage-as-front-stage ethos – and it took the world decades to catch up with his matter-of-fact mingling of races and sexualities. His integrations didn’t seem intellectually derived so much as a no-muss, no-fuss privileging of talent and originality wherever it could be found.’
