WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Dancer-choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and dancer-actress Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams) were Broadway superstars, married from 1960 to 1987, when he died. But their marriage was fraught nearly from the start, because of his womanizing, and they spent many of those years apart, some of which were the most productive for both. This eight-parter _ produced by Tony-winner Thomas Kail ("In The Heights," "Hamilton,"), along with Steven Levenson, Joel Fields and Lin-Manuel Miranda _ covers five tumultuous decades in their lives.
MY SAY: There was a time when Fosse was nearly a household name, and not just in theater households. The most acclaimed choreographer in the world had become the most acclaimed director, and in the event that acclaim hadn't sufficiently sunk in, Fosse produced his own Oscar-nominated biopic ("All That Jazz") which gilded the legacy.
By contrast, Verdon's glory years and most of the Tonys seemed behind her. It wasn't fair, and it isn't fair, but the word "fairness" never appeared on any Equity card. By the early 1970s, she had been the greatest. The world had moved on, as it brutally tends to do for actresses who had arrive in middle age.
