Right in Step ; 'Chicago' Keeps the Work of Brilliant Choreographer Bob Fosse Front and Center

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Bob Fosse didn't know he had a hit on his hands.

In 1975, after opening a darkly themed Broadway musical about sex, murder and the media called "Chicago," the famed choreographer's mammoth insecurities set in. Was it good enough? Was it smart enough? Did it have legs?

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Right in Step ; 'Chicago' Keeps the Work of Brilliant Choreographer Bob Fosse Front and Center

Well, at least in one sense.

But the vaudevillian throwback, which Fosse had conceived with the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb ("Cabaret"), had the misfortune of opening in the same year as Buffalo-native Michael Bennett's "A Chorus Line." The critics, for their part, were icy. In Bennett's shadow, "Chicago" turned in a respe...

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