
Social dancing, 1950s. Gretchen Wyler, Gwen Verdon’s replacement as Lola, leads the dancers, down on their knees or lifted high, in Damn Yankees’s late night, louche 'Two Lost Souls.' Photo by Friedman-Abeles, Museum of the City of New York The New York Public Library.	Fosse, on ladder, rehearses the female dancers, playing Japanese soldiers, in The Conquering Hero’s controversial, 'The Battle.' Left to right: Margery Beddow, Shellie Farrell, Patricia Ferrier, Reby Howells, Betty Linton, and Marlene Dell. Photo by Friedman-Abeles, Museum of the City of New York The New York Public Library.	The full ensemble, wedged together like typewriter keys, at the conclusion of 'A Secretary is Not a Toy' in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Donna McKechnie is second from far left. Photo by Friedman-Abeles Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.


The Fan-Dango Ballroom workers form a Fosse amoeba to stalk a potential client in 'Big Spender' from Sweet Charity’s 1986 Broadway revival. Left to right: Mimi Quillin, Jan Horvath, Christine Colby, Allison Williams, Allison Reneé Manson (hidden), Kirsten Childs, Bebe Neuwirth, Jane Lanier, Alice Everett Cox (partially hidden), and Stephanie Pope. Photo by Martha Swope Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.	Pippin’s Players first appear out of darkness as disembodied hands under the direction of Ben Vereen. Photo by Martha Swope Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.	Virtuosos of the fans: Fosse perfected his fan dance with Chicago’s 'All I Care About.' Center: Jerry Orbach standing, Cheryl Clark, below. Back, left to right: Candy Brown, Michon Peacock, Graciela Daniele, Charlene Ryan, and Pamela Sousa. Photo by Martha Swope Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.


In 'Percussion I' from Dancin’, Fosse references the three muses posed in ascending arabesques in George Balanchine’s Apollo. Back to front: Kim Noor, Rita A. Sullivan, and Robin Alpert. Photo by Martha Swope Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.	'Where there’s smoke, there’s Fosse,' promised Big Deal’s television commercial. Here, Jules Fisher lights Peter Larkin’s porous stage deck from below, creating an erotic inferno for 'Now’s the Time to Fall in Love.' Photo by Martha Swope Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.	Social dancing, 1930s. The last great Fosse number, 'Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar' from Big Deal. Left to right: Roumel Reaux, George Russell, Wayne Cilento, Bruce Anthony Davis, and Frank Mastrocola. Photo by Martha Swope Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.