This he followed with such hits as Damn Yankees with Gwen Verdon, Bells Are Ringing with Judy Holliday, New Girl in Town again with Gwen Verdon, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Robert Morse. As a choreographer, his first showstopping number was “Steam Heat” from The Pajama Game. As a dancer, he performed in two long-running musicals, Call Me Mister and Make Mine Manhattan, followed by such Hollywood films as Give a Girl a Break and Kiss Me Kate. He then toured in the chorus of various productions before making his Broadway debut in the musical revue Dance Me a Song. Navy before moving to New York and studying acting at the American Theatre Wing. After graduating from high school in 1945, he spent two years in the U.S. While still a teenager, he performed with a partner as the Riff Brothers in vaudeville and burlesque theaters. Fosse began his career in Chicago, where he studied ballet, tap, and acrobatic dance from an early age. Life goes on.ĬHICAGO is based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins.Ī director, choreographer, dancer, and actor for films and stage, Bob Fosse was especially famous for his innovative and spectacular staging, with the emphasis on exhilarating dance sequences. Ebb, Kander and Ebb had several projects in different stages of completion waiting in the wings: The Visit, All About Us, Curtains, and Minstrel Show. At the time of the unfortunate death of Mr. In the mid ’80s, the song “New York, New York” became the official anthem of New York City. Their collaboration also transferred itself to movies and television as they wrote original material for the Academy Awards: “Liza with a Z” (Emmy Award), HBO’s Liza Minelli’s “Stepping Out” (Emmy Award) Funny Lady (Oscar-nominated for “How Lucky Can You Get”) Lucky Lady New York, New York Stepping Out and CHICAGO (Oscar-nominated for Best Song). The John Kander and Fred Ebb collaboration of four decades has created what many would consider Broadway standards and contemporary classics: Flora, the Red Menace Cabaret (Tony Award) The Happy Time Zorba 70 Girls, 70 CHICAGO The Act Woman of the Year (Tony Award, Best Score) The Rink Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony Award, Best Score) and Steel Pier.
You can catch her in Apple TV’s series, “Acapulco,” this fall. TV: Chita Rivera in FX’s “Fosse/Verdon.” Film: Half Brothers. Other credits include Maria Rainer in The Sound of Music (Mexico City), Anita in West Side Story (Carnegie Hall) and Mary in Disney’s Mary Poppins (Mexico City). Other Broadway credits: Daniela in In the Heights Carmen in The Pajama Game. Her regional work includes And the World Goes Round at Barrington Stage Company (woman #3) and Bye Bye Birdie at North Shore Music Theatre (Rose Alvarez, IRNE Award for Best Actress in a musical). In 2002, Bianca made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart and later kicked off Chicago’s third national tour, winning a Helen Hayes Award.
For her portrayal of Roxie Hart, Bianca received five awards from the Mexican Association of Theatre Critics including New Revelation and Best Actress. Bianca Marroquín started her artistic career in Mexico City in productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Rent, The Phantom of the Opera, The Vagina Monologues, and Chicago.