Cy Feuer (Paul Reiser)
A savvy Broadway hitmaker, Feuer produced the likes of “Guys and Dolls.” Feuer’s “Can-Can,” a Cole Porter musical, was the show that first made Verdon a star. Later, Feuer took a chance on Fosse, greenlighting him for the film “Cabaret,” though they often fought during shooting.
Hal Prince (Evan Handler)
Fosse’s friend, collaborator and sometime rival, Prince is a vaunted Broadway director and producer. (A tribute, “Prince of Broadway,” ran in 2015.) He directed several shows that Fosse choreographed and later hired Fosse and Verdon’s daughter, Nicole Fosse, for “Phantom of the Opera.”
Ann Reinking (Margaret Qualley)
A forceful and impossibly leggy dancer, Reinking met Fosse during “Pippin” and became his romantic partner through most of the ’70s. After his death, she became, with Verdon, the primary exporter of his style. She choreographed the 1996 revival of “Chicago” and co-directed and helped to choreograph the Broadway revue “Fosse.”
Chita Rivera (Bianca Marroquin)
A blistering Broadway dancer, Rivera appeared in the London company of “Sweet Charity” and then alongside MacLaine in the movie version. Impish and imperious, she later starred in “Chicago,” playing the infamous Velma Kelly alongside Verdon’s Roxie Hart.
Neil (Nate Corddry) and Joan Simon (Aya Cash)
When Fosse ran into trouble with “Sweet Charity,” he persuaded Simon, already a celebrated comedy playwright, to write the book. Simon and his wife, Joan, a former modern dancer, became key members of Fosse and Verdon’s social circle.
