NEW YORK STAGE DIRECTOR BICK GOSS
In Bick Goss's 40 years in the theatre, he's worked
with Carol Burnett, Gene Kelly, Billy Crystal, Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and
Gwen Verdon. Miss Verdon he considers the most interesting talent he ever
met. "We became friends and worked together on three or 4 shows, and
to watch her in rehearsal and on stage was electrifying,"."Gwen Verdon knew what to do with the character, she knew what to do with her body, and she knew what to do with her emotions. She made good choices. She was, I think, one of the most undervalued performers America ever had. Her stage career was great, but she waited until late in life to start doing film and television, and if she'd started earlier she'd be even better remembered today."
Primarily a director but also a choreographer, Bick has worked extensively in New York City, where he has lived since the early 'sixties, but in the San Francisco Bay Area, he won the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his direction and choreography of the TheatreWorks' production of The World Goes 'Round. He won the same award for his San Jose Repertory production of Cole!, a musical that went on to have an 18 month run in San Francisco.
While Bick considers COLE! to be one of the greatest triumphs of his career, one of his primary interests is developing new musicals, and to that end he directs the "Musical Mondays" ongoing series of Monday evening workshop performances of new musical plays.
"I'm very concerned about the state of musical theatre today," he says. "It's turning into opera - too many revivals."
Though most well known as a musical theatre specialist, Bick has directed numerous nonmusicals, including the recent New York production of Roman Nights, a play about the friendship of Tennessee Williams and Anna Magnani.
(excerpted from TRFT NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE http://www.tvradiofilmtheatre.com/tour33.html)
Other credits include:
Side Show
Sweet and Hot, a Harold Arlen review