A Chorus Line
Original Broadway Windowcard
Music	Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics	Edward Kleban
Book	James Kirkwood Nicholas Dante
Productions	1975 Off-Broadway 1975 Broadway 1976 West End 1977 Sydney 2006 San Francisco 2006 Broadway Revival
Awards	Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Book Tony Award for Best Score 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Olivier Award for Best Musical

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The original Broadway production was an unprecedented box office and critical hit, receiving 12 Tony Award nominations and winning nine of them, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time. The show has enjoyed many successful productions worldwide and was revived on Broadway in 2006. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ...

Background and productions

The musical was derived from several taped workshop sessions with Broadway dancers, known as "gypsies," including eight who eventually appeared in the original cast. With nineteen main characters, it is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for chorus line members of a musical. The show gives a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. During the workshop sessions, random characters would be chosen at the end for the chorus jobs, resulting in genuine surprise among the cast. Subsequent productions, however, have the same set of characters winning the slots. ^[1] For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... A theater or theatre is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be given. ... An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performing artist. ... A chorus line is a substantial group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre. ...

A Chorus Line opened off-Broadway at The Public Theater on May 21, 1975. Advance word had created such a demand for tickets that the entire run sold out immediately. Producer Joseph Papp decided to move the production uptown, and on July 25 it opened at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for 6,137 performances. It held the distinction of being the longest running show in Broadway history until its record was surpassed by Cats on June 19, 1997 and then The Phantom of the Opera in 2006. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization. ... is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joseph Papp (1921 - 1991) was an American theatre producer and director. ... is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Shubert Theatre, 2006. ... This is a List of notable musical theatre productions that have been performed on Broadway. ... Cats is an award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possums Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T. S. Eliot. ... This article is about the Gaston Leroux novel. ...

The show was directed and co-choreographed (with Bob Avian) by Michael Bennett. The original cast starred Scott Allen, Kelly Bishop, Wayne Cilento, Ronald Dennis, Baayork Lee, Priscilla Lopez, Donna McKechnie, and Thommie Walsh, and featured Nancy Lane, Kay Cole, Ron Kuhlman, Rick Mason, Don Percassi, Renee Baughman, Pamela Blair, Sammy Williams, Clive Clerk, and Trish Garland. Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... Bob Avian is a Tony Award-winning American choreographer and a theatre producer and director. ... Bennett on the cover of his 1990 biography by Kevin Kelly Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 - July 2, 1987) was a Tony Award-winning American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. ... Scott Allen (born 1949) was an American figure skater. ... Kelly Bishop (born February 28, 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Emily Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls. ... Wayne Cilento (born August 28, 1949) is an award-winning American dancer and choreographer. ... Baayork Lee (born 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, theatre director, and author. ... Priscilla Lopez is an American singer, dancer, and actress. ... // Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1940) is a Tony Award-winning American musical theater dancer, singer. ... Thommie Walsh (born March 15, 1950 - died June 16, 2007) is a Tony Award-winning American dancer, choreographer, and director, and an author. ... Pamela Blair (born December 5, 1949) known as Pam, is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for originating the role of Val in the musical A Chorus Line and several appearances on American Soap Operas. ...

A Chorus Line received 12 Tony Award nominations, winning nine: Best Musical, Best Actress (McKechnie), Best Featured Actor (Sammy Williams), Best Featured Actress (Bishop), Best Director, Best Musical Book, Best Score (Hamlisch and Kleban), Best Lighting Design, and Best Choreography. It also won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of the few musicals ever to receive this honor, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the season. The show also toured successfully, including a run at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. A production mounted at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London's West End won the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Musical of the Year 1976, the first year in which the awards were presented. An unsuccessful film adaptation was released in 1985. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ... The New York Drama Critics Circle is comprised of nineteen drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines, and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area. ... Pantages Theatre during the 2006/2007 run of The Lion King The Pantages Theatre, formerly known as RKO Pantages Theatre, is located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California in the United States of America. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... The present-day Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, sketched when it was new, in 1813. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ... A Chorus Line is a 1985 musical film, based on the Broadway musical of the same title, starring Michael Douglas and Alyson Reed. ...

In 1990, original cast members Baayork Lee and Thommie Walsh collaborated with Robert Viagas on the book On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line, which chronicles the musical's origins and evolution and includes interviews with the entire original cast. Among other things, the book revealed that the project actually had been conceived by dancers Michon Peacock and Tony Stevens, who had organized the first taped all-night session at the Nickolaus Exercise Center on January 26, 1974 in the hope it would result in the formation of a professional dance company designed to develop workshops specifically for Broadway ensemble players. Bennett was invited to join the group primarily as an observer, but quickly took control of the proceedings. In later years, his claim that A Chorus Line had been his brainchild, his dismissal of many of the major contributions made by the participants (particularly Nicholas Dante) in the sessions from which it evolved, and his exclusion of Peacock and Stevens from the early workshops, resulted in not only hard feelings but a number of lawsuits as well. is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

The Broadway revival opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on October 5, 2006 following a run in San Francisco. The production was directed by Bob Avian, with the choreography reconstructed by the show's original Connie Wong, Baayork Lee. The opening night cast included Brad Anderson, Michael Berresse, Charlotte d'Amboise, Mara Davi, Heather Parcells, Alisan Porter, and Chryssie Whitehead. The production received two Tony Award nominations, but no wins. The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is a Broadway theatre. ... For other uses, see 5th October (Serbia). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Brad Anderson (born 1924) is an American cartoonist. ... Michael Berresse (born August 15, 1964) is an American actor. ... Charlotte dAmboise (May 11, 1964) is a professional dancer and actor on the stage, in movies, and on television. ... Mara Davi is an actress, singer and dancer making her Broadway debut as Maggie Winslow in the revival of A Chorus Line. ... Parcells posing with Mayumi Miguel Heather Parcells is an American actress, singer and dancer. ... Alisan Porter (born June 20, 1981, in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American actress and singer. ... Chryssie Whitehead is an American actress, singer and dancer. ...

Since its inception, the show's many worldwide productions, both professional and amateur, have been a major source of income for The Public Theater.

Synopsis

At an audition for an upcoming Broadway production, director Zach and his assistant choreographer Larry put the gypsies through their paces. Every dancer is desperate for work ("I Hope I Get It"). After the first selection, 17 dancers remain. Zach tells them he is looking for a strong dancing chorus of four boys and four girls. He wants to learn more about them, so he tells them to introduce themselves. With reluctance, they reveal their pasts. The stories generally progress chronologically from early life experiences through adulthood to the end of a career.

The first candidate, Mike, explains that he is the youngest of 12 children. He recalls his first experience with dance, watching his sister's dance class when he was a pre-schooler ("I Can Do That"). Mike took her place one day when she refused to go to class – and he stayed. Bobby tries to hide the unhappiness of his childhood by making jokes. As he speaks, the 17 dancers have misgivings about this strange audition process and debate what they should reveal to Zach ("And..."), but since they all need the job, the session continues.

Zach is angered when he feels that the streetwise Sheila is not taking the audition seriously. Opening up, she reveals that her mother married at a young age and her father neither loved nor cared for them. When she was six, she realized that ballet was a relief from her family life. Bebe adds that, as she was not a beautiful child, she was also drawn to ballet, where she could feel beautiful. At the ballet, notes Maggie, someone is always there, unlike the father she has never had ("At the Ballet"). For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ...

The scatter-brained Kristine is tone-deaf, and her lament that she could never "Sing!" is interrupted by her husband Al finishing her phrases. Mark, the youngest of the dancers relates his first experiences with pictures of the female anatomy and his first wet dream, and the other dancers share memories of adolescence ("Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love"). Gregory speaks about his discovery of his homosexuality, and Diana recollects her horrible high school acting class ("Nothing"). Don remembers his first job at a nightclub, Richie recounts how he nearly became a kindergarten teacher, Judy reflects on her problematic childhood, and the 4'10" tall Connie rants on the problems of being short. Finally, the newly-buxom Val explains that talent doesn't count for everything with casting directors, and silicone can really help ("Dance: Ten; Looks: Three"). A person who is tone deaf lacks relative pitch, the ability to discriminate between musical notes. ... A nocturnal emission is an ejaculation of semen experienced by males during sleep. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the album by The Huntingtons, see Plastic Surgery (album). ...

The dancers go downstairs to learn a song for the next section of the audition, but Cassie stays onstage to talk to Zach. She is a veteran gypsy who has had some notable successes as a soloist. They have a history together: Zach had cast her in a featured part previously, and they had lived together for several years. Zach tells Cassie that she is too good for the chorus and shouldn't be at this audition. But she hasn't been able to find solo work and is willing to "come home" to the chorus where she can at least express her passion for dance ("The Music and the Mirror"). Zach sends her downstairs to learn the dance combination.

Zach calls Paul on stage, and he emotionally relives his early career in a drag act, coming to terms with his manhood, homosexuality and sense of self. Cassie and Zach's complex relationship resurfaces ("One"). Zach confronts her, feeling that she is "dancing down," and they rehash what went wrong in their relationship and her career. Zach points to the good-but-not-great dancing of the rest of the cast, the gypsies who will probably never get out of the line. Cassie replies, "I'll take chorus, if you'll take me!" During a tap sequence, Paul falls injured and is carried off to the hospital: his career is over. Zach asks the remaining dancers what they will do when they can no longer dance. Whatever happens, they reply, they will be free of regret ("What I Did For Love"). The final eight dancers are selected: Cassie, Bobby, Diana, Bebe, Val, Mike, Mark and Richie. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Man tap dancing. ...

"One" (reprise/finale) begins with an individual bow for each of the 19 characters, their hodgepodge rehearsal clothes replaced by identical spangled gold costumes. As each dancer joins the group, it is suddenly difficult to distinguish one from the other; ironically, each character who was an individual to the audience is now an anonymous member of an ensemble.^[2] Ironic redirects here. ... An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. ...

Musical numbers

• "I Hope I Get It" (Zach, Paul and Company)
• "I Can Do That" (Mike)
• "And..." (Bobby, Richie, Val and Judy)
• "At the Ballet" (Sheila, Bebe and Maggie)
• "Sing!" (Kristine, Al and Company)
• "Montage Part 1: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love" (Mark, Connie and Company)
• "Montage Part 2: Nothing" (Diana)
• "Montage Part 3: Mother" (Don, Judy and Company)
• "Montage Part 4: Gimme The Ball" (Greg, Richie and Company)
• "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three " (Val)
• "The Music and the Mirror" (Cassie)
• "One" (Company)
• "The Tap Combination" (Company)
• "What I Did for Love" (Diana and Company)
• "One" (Reprise) (Company)

A Chorus Line in other media

• In Lea Salonga's live performance The Broadway Concert, the Filipina Tony Award winner prefaces "Nothing" with: "To all those who said I couldn't make it; to all those who said I'd never get this far; and to all those who said I was better-off not trying, this one's for you!"
• In the episode "Fireworks" of 30 Rock, Jack asks Kenneth to seduce Will Arnett's character, giving him two tickets to the musical. Later on, Jack asks Kenneth how it went the night before; Kenneth replies, "Well, the curtain opens with a bunch of people standing in a line in ‘70's-type leotards.…" (Jack interrupted him).
• In an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, Debra becomes upset at Ray for suggesting that she and Ray's brother's girlfriend are competing for his mother's favor. She pretends she is in a show and twirls an imaginary baton while singing "One".
• In the Scrubs episode "My Malpractical Decision", JD pictures malpractice lawyer Neena Broderick dancing down the hallway of the hospital while kicking all the male workers to the tune of the song "One."
• In the Family Guy episode One If by Clam, Two If by Sea, Peter plays "What I Did For Love" on drinking glasses.
  • In the episode Road to Rhode Island, Stewie sneaks a carry-on luggage full of weapons through an airport scanner by distracting the guards with a song-and-dance number; his closing comment, "Let's hope Osama bin Laden doesn't know show tunes," is immediately realized on-screen using "I Hope I Get It." This scene was pulled from circulation following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• In the Full House episode Our Very First Telathon, Danny and Rebecca sing "What I Did For Love."
• In the episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Vivian wants to be a dancer, one of the women says that she was in A Chorus Line
• In The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V, the Simpson family, turned inside-out by a mysterious fog, sings to the tune of "One."
• In the Malcolm In The Middle episode "Mini-Bike", Lois' store co-worker Craig is in the bathroom singing to himself "I Hope I Get It" in the hopes of being asked out on a date by her.
• In the recent fantasy novel, Changeling, the main characters Neef and Changeling travel to Between Broadway, looking for tickets to Peter Pan, and they bump into the original cast of A Chorus Line (the final 8), who become very helpful in their quest.
• In an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Salem is doing karate moves, when Sabrina says, "Let me guess, they're doing A Chorus Line, and you're Cassie."
• In a season one episode of the sitcom Seinfeld entitled "The Robbery," Elaine's waitress-actress roommate is in a dinner-theatre production of A Chorus Line. Elaine makes reference to her by signing a line of "I Hope I Get It", wryly commenting that if she has to hear her rehearse one more time "she's gonna get it right in her..."
• In Shrek the Third, before the big finale, Prince Charming and his gang of villains are dancing to the opening piano chords of "One," complete with Charming in pink legwarmers.
• In An Evening With Diana Ross, her 1977 one-woman Broadway show, Diana Ross covered "Dance: Ten. Looks: Three", poking fun at her lack of curves. The same show was televised on NBC in 1977 as "The Big Event: An Evening With Diana Ross" and the soundtrack was released as "An Evening with Diana Ross" on cassette and LP (1977) and CD (1993).
• In Season 4 of Will & Grace Jack tries to cheer Grace up by singing songs with the word "one" by doing a rendition of One.
• In the Ally McBeal episode "What I'll Never Do for Love Again", Elaine Vassel played by Jane Krakowski sings "The Music and the Mirror" in an audition for A Chorus Line theatre production.
• In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Carmen and her mother sing a bit of "Nothing" as they make dinner together.
• In American Dreamz, a character is singing "One" while in the terrorist camp.
• On the television show Eight Is Enough from November 1978, Tom and Abby unknowingly attempt to buy each other tickets to a tour of A Chorus Line. Later, when they miss the show, the kids sing and dance to "One" to make up for it.

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A Chorus Line milestones at a glance

• May 21, 1975 Off-Broadway opening night
• June 3, 1975 Original Cast Album recorded
• July 13, 1975 Final off-Broadway performance
• July 25, 1975 First Broadway preview
• October 19, 1975 Official Broadway opening night
• April 19, 1976 Wins 9 Tony Awards
• May 3, 1976 Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• May 6, 1976 National company opens in San Francisco / International company opens in Toronto
• July 22, 1976 Opens in London
• May 24, 1977 Opens in Sydney
• January 9, 1978 Celebrates 1000th performance on Broadway
• January 17, 1978 Original Cast Album achieves gold status
• 1979 Japanese Premiere Shiki Theatre Company
• June 11, 1980 Celebrates 2000th performance on Broadway
• October 24, 1982 Celebrates 3000th performance on Broadway
• September 29, 1983 With its 3389th performance, surpasses Grease as the longest-running show in Broadway history
• March 16, 1985 Celebrates 4000th performance on Broadway
• December 9, 1985 Film version opens in the US to mostly disastrous reviews
• July 2, 1987 Michael Bennett dies
• August 10, 1987 Celebrates 5000th performance on Broadway
• December 27, 1987 Ed Kleban dies
• April 22, 1989 James Kirkwood, Jr. dies
• December 31, 1989 Celebrates 6000th Broadway performance
• April 28, 1990 Closes on Broadway after 6137 performances
• May 21, 1991 Nicholas Dante dies
• October 31, 1991 Joseph Papp dies
• July 23, 2006 Pre-Broadway revival run opens in San Francisco
• October 5, 2006 Broadway revival opens
• November 2, 2007 Opens at Secondstory Repertory in Seattle, Washington. This is the show's first time being performed in a three-quarter stage area.

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Documentary in preparation

Backstage.com reported that James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo are in post-production of a documentary about the musical called Every Little Step: The Journey of A Chorus Line, which will include footage of Michael Bennett and interviews with Hamlisch, Avian, former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich and original cast member Donna McKechnie. The film will show behind-the-scenes footage of the audition, rehearsals and performances of the original and the 2006 Broadway productions. Production of the documentary began in 2005 with the filming of the auditions of 1,700 hopefuls for the revival. The film is expected to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival or the Sundance Film Festival.^[3] The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Frank Rich (born June 2, 1949 in Washington, D.C.) is a columnist for The New York Times who focuses on American politics and popular culture. ... Poster for the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival Box office at the Manulife Centre The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), held in Toronto, Canada, is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, France, Venice, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Toronto, Canada festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ...

References

1. ^ "Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line".
2. ^ Synopsis adapted from "Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line".
3. ^ Backstage article on the documentary

On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line by Robert Viagas, Baayork Lee, and Thommie Walsh, published by William Morrow (1990) ISBN 0-688-08429-X Sir William Morrow DSO ED was a leading Australian surgeon and specilist in Gastroenterology he also served as president of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. ...

External links

• A Chorus Line at the Internet Broadway Database
• Official 2006 Broadway production website
• A Chorus Line Audition Advice & Show Information from MusicalTheatreAudition.com