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Sorry, I meant judge me for watching it so much later than it debuted on air. 

I got that free trial offer for Hulu for a month (and HBO Max, but only for a week) and I am pretty much bingeing all this shows while I have access. I think it might also be on Netflix which I have access to, but oh well.

It's a well done series and, actually I read the original source material years ago (the biography, written by Sam Wasson, which, ironically, I briefly made a post about on this message board), which I found very compelling. I had read Paddy Chayefsky's biography, which talks about his close friendship with Bob Fosse, so that intrigued me and led me to read the Wasson biography of Fosse. I guess, I should have been reading Neil Simon's biography next to complete the set.

Another very interesting factoid, Valerie Pettiford (AW, OLTL) was a choreography consultant for this series. In a nod to her presence, one of the dancers in the series bore an obvious resemblance to her. The series was well casted and written, imo. 

I didn't mean to suggest that the series was low-caliber, or anything, only that I have waited so long to watch it, long past the buzz.

Also, Michelle Williams was so good and probably could have played Lucille Ball, instead of Nicole Kidman.  IJS.

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Anna Kathryn Holbrook (ex-Sharlene Frame Hudson - Another World) and Ashley Williams (ex-Dani - As The World Turns) starred in a Hallmark Christmas Movie that aired this past weekend called Sister Swap. Also in the movie is Ashley's Real Life sister Kimberly Williams Paisley. 

 

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@DramatistDreamer Valarie worked with Fosse in the Broadway show Big Deal and was the original star of the Broadway musical review, Fosse. She has a great deal of experience with his choreography.

I also loved Fosse/Verdon. I was working on a touring production down in North Carolina when it aired. F/X would repeat the new episodes like two times a night and I’d watch over and over again.

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Oh yeah, I knew about her, I just thought it was cool that there was a look-alike actress/dancer that was meant to be her. The actress who portrayed Chita Rivera was quite good too.

I read the original source material a few years ago, so I recognized quite a few scenes in there from the biography. The actor who played Paddy Chayefsky portrayed him pretty much how he comes off in his biography. That wryly dark Bronx-onian sense of humor.

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 This season on The Blacklist, Valarie Pettiford (ex-Sheila Price Gannon, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) is recurring with a role that she previously guest stinted in, Charlene Cooper, regular Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix)'s wife.   Karina Arroyavé (ex-Bianca Walsh, ATWT) is recurring this season as well, as Red Reddington's assistant/lover, Mierce Xiu. 

    Michael Mealor (ex-Kyle Abbott, Y&R) guest starred on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. 

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