I havent seen this movie..but do they actually sing the song "All That Jazz" In it? Like in the movie Chicago? If so..who sings it?
*And All That Jazz*
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"All that jazz"....as a phrase....a conversational phrase....is the equivalent of today's 'Whatever".....or..in a more pedestrain vein...."etc"......
Used as the title of Fosse's film...it has multiple meanings...
First..it is the title of the opening number of the 1975 B'way musical CHICAGO..which he concieved and directed...starring his estranged wife...Gwen Verdon...the song is a "list song"....in which a variety of provactive/fun things are listed.....and each list ends (before it gets too risque)...with "all that jazz"
"I want to rouge my knees and roll my stockings down..and all that jazz!"
Second....Fosse was a chain-smoking...hard drinking...drug taking...womanizing workaholic..and a theatre genius...and deeply cynical about show biz...including his own brilliant work...(listen to "Razzle Dazzle"...that is his view of how show biz works)......one can imagine him summing up his decades of great work as just.."all that jazz"......
Used as the title for his 1979 film...it contains further ironies....or at least auto-biographical references
The show Joe Gideon is directing in ALL THAT JAZZ is called NEW YORK/LA....Joe has a heart attack during it......Fosse had one while directing CHICAGO in 1975....Joe directs his estranged wife in NY/LA.....Fosse directed Gwen Verdon...his estranged wife..in CHICAGO.....Joe has a girlfriend..played by Anne Reinking......in ALL THAT JAZZ....Anne Reinking was his long term girlfriend in real life....and certainly during CHICAGO in 1975....and there are many many more cross-connections....
The scary part of ALL THAT JAZZ is....having brushed with death in 1975...Fosse wrote his own death with ALL THAT JAZZ in 1979....of course he survived the film....but...in 1987.....after finishing the final dress rehearsal of the new touring company of his other great show SWEET CHARITY.....at the National Theatre in Washington....he was heading back to his hotel to change for the opening night performance...and he collapsed in the street..and died in the arms of his estranged wife.....Gwen Verdon.....
Even Fosse couldn't have concieved of THAT irony......
If you want to know more about Fosse....read: All His Jazz...by Martin Gottfried
..a very thorough...series biography....and Razzle Dazzle...by Ken Mandelbaum...
...more gossipy...and chatty...it is stillvery good..with somem great photos....OK...I have said enough.....enjoy Fosse.....he was the best...
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Wow...I didn't know that....but it certainly makes some sense....and gives another layer to the song fro Victor/Victoria...'Le Jazz Hot"....Thanks!
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Nice explanation. But you use this phrase a couple times:
>his estranged wife.....Gwen Verdon
Not estranged. I understand they were legally separated yet still worked together. If he died in her arms, they were hardly estranged, sort of newly -made strangers. Seems they actually remained friends, which is quite the opposite of estranged.
and deeply cynical about show biz...including his own brilliant work...(listen to "Razzle Dazzle"..that is his view of how show biz works)......one can imagine him summing up his decades of great work as just ..."all that jazz"...
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I don't think Fosse was that cynical about show biz and certainly not his own work. "Razzle Dazzle" is about blinding the
audience(the jury) with razzle dazzle. Although it often included flash Fosse's work was not insincere or misleading. And those lyrics are by Fred Ebb(corny rhymes and all) not Fosse.
jazz here means both mess and sex..(a sexy mess?)anyway it's nothing to do with jazz as music genre
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