Tuesday 15 December 2020

Slick your hair and wear your buckled shoes, and all that jazz

Sad news today - the lovely, leggy Fosse muse Miss Ann Reinking has high-kicked her way off to Fabulon...

Never quite as famous as her predecessor in Bob Fosse's bed Gwen Verdon, nor a top-billed star in the same way as Chita Rivera, nevertheless her legacy as a choreographer has assured her immortality - for it was she, rather than Bob himself, who created the fabulous "jazz hands" routines for the worldwide smash hit musical Chicago...

...not to mention her dazzling performance in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film All That Jazz:

Pizazz!

RIP, Ann Reinking (10th November 1949 – 12th December 2020)

14 comments:

  1. she had legs, she knew what to do with them.

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    1. "Number Seventeen - the spread eagle!"

      Jx

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  2. Another film I'm going to have to search out (after "54") - I don't know why I didnt do so after you posted that "Everything Old Is New Again" clip not so long ago?

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    1. All That Jazz is a very good film, if somewhat surreal.

      I know it's in the movie, but now you have me trying to think back to which recent post I featured Everything Old Is New Again... Jx

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  3. Well, that was jolly.Thank you.

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    1. I imagine Miss Reinking would be pleased she was still bringing joy to her audience. Jx

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  4. After All That Jazz, she made the rounds of talk shows and came across as totally unpretentious and level headed and funny. Somebody you'd want to go hang out over drinks with.

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    1. It's always refreshing to find someone who you would expect to be a right primadonna, who actually isn't. Like Kylie Minogue. Jx

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  5. Oh RIP...I loved her as Grace in Annie.

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    1. Not a film with which I am familiar... Jx

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  6. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll love you tomorrow...
    Apologies, I am just having a giggle thinking of Jon watching Annie - it doesn't quite stack up in my head!
    Sx

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    1. Hardly - only Grace Jones can redeem that dreadful song, as well... Jx

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