Gwen Verdon
American actress and dancerWikipedia
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Search complete. 45 mentions across 24 episodes found for "Gwen Verdon".
Nov 7, 2026
Garrett EislerHOST
Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.
Garrett EislerHOST
Famously, Gwen Verdon in a really sexy bodice outfit.
Garrett EislerHOST
I do know
Ted LinhartHOST
that song now that you...
Daryl GarrisonPANELIST
to go? Yeah, I've got a quickie one for you.
Daryl GarrisonPANELIST
What do the following six entertainers have in common? Dinah Shore, Alan Alda, Neil Young, Mia Farrow, Donald Sutherland, Gwen Verdon.
Daryl GarrisonPANELIST
Or is that seven? One, two, three, four.
Daryl GarrisonPANELIST
Okay.
Daryl GarrisonPANELIST
What do the following entertainers have in common? Dinah Shore, Alan Alda, Neil Young, Mia Farrow, Donald Sutherland, Gwen Verdon.
Dana RodriguezHOST
Is this a professional thing?
Daryl GarrisonPANELIST
Nope.
Dana RodriguezHOST
So it's a personal thing?
Dana DiscordiaHOST
Not a dancer.
Dana DiscordiaHOST
Gwen Verdon.
Dan LobelHOST
Nope.
Dan LobelHOST
Now that we've ruled out Gwen Verdon, we can go on.
Dan LobelHOST
Thanks.
Dan LobelHOST
Okay, we've missed you.
Greg DickmanHOST
I am trying.
Greg DickmanHOST
I'm asking my wife.
Greg DickmanHOST
I'm like, am I doing this right? She's like, yeah, it seems like you're doing all right.
Greg DickmanHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Becca LaivelingGUEST
Well, I was going to say, we probably should also thank Jason Berling because he's the one who... first kind of introduced me to your podcast.
Becca LaivelingGUEST
Um, we were out one night, well, Jason and my husband, Brian have been really good friends since they were little kids.
Becca LaivelingGUEST
Um, and so we were out one night, Brian and I, and then Jason and his wife, Megan, and he let us know we were actually a funny story.
Becca LaivelingGUEST
We But he let us know that you had interviewed him for your podcast.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
One was a silent film, and another starred Ginger Rogers.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
When actress and dancer Gwen Verdon saw this film starring Ginger, she got curious about the source material and spent many years trying to get the rights from the author Maureen.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
Gwen wanted Bob Fosse to turn this play into a musical for her.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
Finally they got the rights and in 1975 the show opened on Broadway starring Gwen and Chita Rivera with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
John DoughertyHOST
He uses dance as a storytelling technique throughout.
John DoughertyHOST
Some of them are like sort of more traditional musical numbers, but there's also a scene where sort of the, the Fosse stand in played by Roy Schneider is talking to the Gwen Verdon stand in and he's sort of helping her through a dance rehearsal, but they're having an argument about their relationship.
John DoughertyHOST
but he films it as them like doing these, you know, absolutely bonkers dance moves.
John DoughertyHOST
It's a, a really, really stunning film that also at the end, uh, just felt like so sad.
Juan Pablo Di PaceGUEST
Yeah.
Juan Pablo Di PaceGUEST
Making the West End debut and eight shows a week and, you know, Just so happy that that was my first job because it set the stage for a lot of things that then happened or that I'd learned or the fact that I was a huge fan of Bob Fosse's work and Gwen Verdon and Ryan King and to be in that world and to be taught by the people who knew him and were with him.
Juan Pablo Di PaceGUEST
was amazing because there's something about i think chicago is the only show now really in the ether of his legacy um and there's something so specific about him every movement every move means something
Elbi CespedesHOST
right right
Brian ShnipperGUEST
And I remember when I was nine, my mother took me to my first Broadway show, which was The Wiz.
Brian ShnipperGUEST
And after that, it was the original production of Chicago with Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera and the original production of A Chorus Line.
Brian ShnipperGUEST
And some of those things just stay in your memory.
Brian ShnipperGUEST
And it's the reason why I went into this, because I was just so fascinated by it as a child.
John BruschkeHOST
The showrunner was Bob Fosse.
John BruschkeHOST
Roxy was played by Gwen Verdon.
John BruschkeHOST
You know, Fosse and Verdon had a longstanding relationship that we'll talk about in a bit.
John BruschkeHOST
And Velma was played by Chita Rivera.
8 MINS LATER
John BruschkeHOST
The next one, Damn Yankees.
John BruschkeHOST
You probably heard of it includes it comes out in 1955.
John BruschkeHOST
And Gwen Verdon is an actress.
John BruschkeHOST
She wins the Tony, in fact, for the best actress by appearing in Damn Yankees.
Brian GumbelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Those damn Yankees.
Brian GumbelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It would do Gwen Verdon proud.
Brian GumbelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we're awful proud to be starting another season of baseball.
Brian GumbelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The first of 26 weeks.
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