Born in Sullivan, Missouri,[1] Fuller began his career as an actor portraying Enoch Snow in the 1957 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at New York City Center with Pat Stanley as Carrie Pepperidge and Barbara Cook as Julie Jordan.
[2] He went on to appear in the original Broadway productions of West Side Story (as a Jet swing), The Music Man, Redhead, Kean, Bravo Giovanni, Donnybrook!, No Strings, and Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand.
[1][3] He would go on to recreate the original Carol Haney choreography for the American touring and London West End productions of Funny Girl.
[5] Fuller's credits as a choreographer include the original Broadway productions of On the Twentieth Century (1978),[6] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979),[7] Evita (1979),[8] Merrily We Roll Along (1981),[9] Is There Life After High School?
[1] In Europe, Fuller has directed and choreographed productions of West Side Story in Vienna and Nuremberg, created Jazz and the Dancing Americans for the Opera House Ballet in Graz, Austria and the Theatre an der Wien in Vienna, and directed the European premieres of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and On the Town, and George Gershwin's Girl Crazy.