A Year in the Making: Dancing Through Life Is Coming from Bloomsbury

After a year in the making, I’m thrilled to finally share some exciting news: a contract has been signed with Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama to publish Tony Award–nominated Broadway choreographer Larry Fuller’s memoir, Dancing Through Life: A Broadway Memoir of Luck & Talent, in May 2027. I’ve had the privilege of working with Larry to bring his remarkable story to the page, and I couldn’t be happier that it has found a home with one of the world’s leading publishers of theatre and performing arts.

Larry Fuller and Patti LuPone in rehearsals for Evita.

The book brings together entertainment history, LGBTQ lived experience, and a firsthand account of some of the most influential artists and productions of twentieth-century theatre.

Larry was quite literally in the room as modern Broadway was being built. Beginning as a young dancer from Missouri who made his Broadway debut in the original production of West Side Story, his career eventually took him from Broadway to London and across Europe as a performer, director and choreographer. Along the way, he worked alongside legendary figures including Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett, Comden & Green and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

His own Broadway credits include Funny Girl, On the Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd, Evita—for which he received a Tony Award nomination—and the original production of Merrily We Roll Along, among many others.

And then there are the people.

Over the course of his extraordinary career, Larry worked with and has stories to tell about an astonishing roster of performers and personalities, including Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Nathan Lane, Raquel Welch, Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal, Madeline Kahn, Gwen Verdon and many more.

But Dancing Through Life isn’t simply a collection of Broadway stories or celebrity encounters. Larry wasn't observing this history from the sidelines; he was part of its creative fabric, witnessing firsthand how landmark productions were conceived, rehearsed, struggled over and ultimately brought to life.

It is also the story of the man behind that career—of ambition and artistry, love and loss, sexuality and identity, extraordinary success and painful disappointment, and what it costs to build a life in a profession that can be exhilarating one moment and unforgiving the next.

There is still much work ahead between now and publication, but after spending the past year helping Larry tell this story, it feels wonderful to finally be able to say:

Larry Fuller’s story is going to be a book. And it’s coming in May 2027.