Larry Fuller memoir to reveal Broadway secrets

Tony Award-nominated choreographer Larry Fuller is set to publish Dancing Through Life on May 13, 2027, with Bloomsbury. The memoir promises insider stories from seven decades in show business, including Broadway legends, hidden relationships, and Fuller’s own journey as a gay man in mid-century America.

Why it matters: - Larry Fuller helped shape some of Broadway’s best-known musicals, and his memoir adds a first-person account of how those productions actually worked behind the scenes. - The book also adds to LGBTQ+ history writing by describing Fuller’s life as a gay man navigating mid-century America and the theater world’s own secrecy. - For theater fans, the memoir promises new details about major figures and productions from Broadway’s Golden Age and beyond.

What happened: - Bloomsbury will publish Dancing Through Life: A Broadway Memoir of Luck & Talent on May 13, 2027. - Hardcover pre-orders are available now on Amazon. - The memoir is written with award-winning author Kergan Edwards-Stout. - Fuller is a Tony Award-nominated choreographer, director and former Broadway dancer whose career spans more than seven decades.

The details: - Fuller says the memoir looks back on a career that included work with Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Michael Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon and Nathan Lane. - Fuller performed in West Side Story, The Music Man and Funny Girl. - Fuller later choreographed Evita, Sweeney Todd, On the Twentieth Century and Merrily We Roll Along. - The book says Fuller witnessed triumphs, scandals, romances and rivalries that audiences never saw. - Fuller’s memoir includes stories from rehearsal rooms, opening-night parties and private moments behind Broadway’s public image. - Fuller was born in small-town Missouri in 1938. - Fuller arrived in New York with $600, a suitcase and Broadway ambitions. - Fuller describes confronting prejudice, family rejection and pressure to hide his sexuality while growing up. - The memoir explores love, heartbreak, relationships and hidden LGBTQ+ history in Broadway culture. - Tim Rice calls Fuller’s contribution to Evita “absolutely crucial” and calls him a “true genius.” - Rob Marshall praises Fuller’s work on Evita, Sweeney Todd and On the Twentieth Century and says it influenced later choreographers. - Mandy Patinkin says working with Fuller on Evita was “one of the true gifts of my life.” - Michael Musto calls Fuller “an unsung hero of Broadway.” - Charles Busch says Fuller “knows where the bodies are buried.”

Between the lines: - The memoir is being positioned as more than a celebrity tell-all; it is also a corrective to Broadway mythology, with Fuller presenting himself as both witness and participant in the era. - The emphasis on secrecy, romance and private behavior suggests the book will challenge polished public narratives around some of Broadway’s most famous names. - The timing also taps ongoing reader interest in memoirs that mix entertainment history with identity and cultural memory.

What's next: - Readers can reserve the hardcover edition now. - The book is scheduled to reach stores and customers on May 13, 2027. - Fuller’s memoir will likely draw attention from Broadway readers, Sondheim and Prince fans, and LGBTQ+ history audiences when publication nears.

The bottom line: - Fuller is turning seven decades of Broadway access into a memoir that promises backstage detail, personal history and a different view of musical theater’s golden era.