Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's daughter Nicole Fosse is co-executive producer and supervised all aspects of the production, including the recreation of her father's original choreography.
Sam Rockwell used to enjoy an occasional smoke but, having played the chain-smoking Bob Fosse, any lingering desire to return to cigarettes has been effectively quashed.
This was originally supposed to be mainly a biography of Bob Fosse but the more the producers drilled into the material, they realized that there was equally meaty material with regards to Gwen Verdon's back story.