Dancing Through Life
A Broadway Memoir of Luck and Talent
Dancing Through Life
A Broadway Memoir of Luck and Talent
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"Larry Fuller's career has spanned some of the most influential and transformative moments in musical theater history." - Stage and Cinema
Dancing Through Life is an intimate, electrifying memoir that pulls back the curtain on Broadway's most dazzling decades-told by a man who didn't just witness history, but helped create it. From his modest beginnings in Missouri to the bright lights of New York's most celebrated stages, Larry Fuller's journey is one of grit, instinct, and relentless reinvention.
With disarming honesty and sharp wit, Fuller charts his evolution from chorus dancer to sought-after choreographer, working alongside legends like Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, and Nathan Lane. He offers a rare insider's view of iconic productions including West Side Story and The Music Man, capturing the artistry, ego, and pressure that defined a golden age of musical theatre.
More than just a backstage chronicle, this is a deeply personal story of identity and survival. As a gay man navigating mid-20th-century America, Fuller reveals the quiet negotiations required to live authentically in a world that often demanded silence. At its emotional core are his previously unspoken relationships with two titans of Broadway-Hal Prince and Michael Bennett-shedding new light on the complex intersections of power, creativity, and intimacy behind the scenes.
Rich with revelation, warmth, and hard-won insight, Dancing Through Life preserves a vanishing era through the eyes of one of its last living witnesses. It is both a love letter to the theatre and a testament to the courage it takes to claim your place within it.
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Table of Contents
1. Beginnings
2. Bright Lights, Big City
3. I Feel Pretty
4. The Music Man
5. Redhead
6. My Year with Paul Jasmin
7. Jack Cole: Back-to-Back-to-Back
8. Bravo Giovanni
9. No Strings & Perry Como
10. Dance – 10, Looks – 3
11. Funny Girl
12. Variety Is the Spice of Life
13. Funny Girl – Other Productions
14. From Choreographer to Director
15. Steve Harmon
16. Hello, Sucker!
17. Extreme Highs, Devastating Lows
18. Finding Myself
19. Me and the Thetans
20. A Transition in Europe
21. A Little Night Music
22. The Boarding School
23. On the Twentieth Century
24. Evita – London's West End
25. New Ways to Dream
26. Sweeney Todd
27. Evita – Broadway
28. Silverlake: A Winter's Tale
29. 22 Years of Oil & Water
30. Oil & Water Cohabitate
31. Invitation to the Dance
32. Oscar Remembered
33. Merrily We Roll Along
34. A Doll's Life
35. Is There Life After High School?
36. Dance of the Defectors
37. Marilyn! The Musical
38. Oil & Water Try to Make It Work
39. Nathan Lane in Love
40. Gotta Getaway
41. Award Season
42. Jo Raquel Tejada
43. All Girl Band
44. Time
45. Oil & Water Go Bicoastal
46. A Multitude of Evas
47. On Your Toes
48. Aladdin (But Not the One You're Thinking)
49. I Do! I Do!
50. A German Superstar
51. Jazzleggs
52. Oil & Water Combust
53.Jekyll & Hyde
54. JFK: A Musical Drama
55. You've Got to Have Friends
56. Half a Lifetime of Red Ribbons
57. An Ending – and a Beginning
58. Closing
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Product details
| Published | Apr 15 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350672802 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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