 After the success of the dance-intensive "A Chorus Line", Fosse proposed a show with little dialogue and singing.Fosse's concept for the show was to use classical and show music, popular music, rock and roll, Mozart, Bach, George M. Cohan, and contemporary music by Neil Diamond and Melissa Manchester, anything "except" a new score written by a collaborator.He stated publicly that the project would free him from the burden of an artistic partnership