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However, she explains her current inability 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 tells Cassie that she is too good for the chorus and shouldn't be at this audition.
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They have a history together: Zach had previously cast her in a featured part, and they had lived together for several years. The dancers go downstairs to learn a song for the audition's next section, but experienced dancer Cassie Ferguson, who has had notable successes as a soloist, stays onstage to talk to Zach. Finally, the newly- buxom Val Clark explains that talent alone isn't everything, and silicone and plastic surgery can really help improve one's image and career prospects ("Dance: Ten Looks: Three").
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Greg Gardner discusses discovering his homosexuality and Richie Walters recounts nearly becoming a kindergarten teacher ("Gimme the Ball"). Don Kerr remembers his first job at a nightclub and Judy Turner reflects on her problematic childhood while some auditioners talk about their parents' opinions ("Mother"). The 4'10" Connie Wong laments the problems of being short, and Diana Morales recollects her horrible high school acting class ( "Nothing"). Mark Anthony, the youngest dancer, relates his first exposure to the female anatomy and his first wet dream, while the other dancers share their own memories of adolescence ("Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love"). Scatterbrained and tone-deaf Kristine Urich-DeLuca laments being unable to sing, while her husband Al finishes her phrases in tune ("Sing"). At age six she realized, as had fellow auditionees Bebe Benzenheimer and Maggie Winslow, that ballet helped her escape her unhappy family life ("At the Ballet"). Opening up, she reveals that her mother married at a young age and her father neither cared about nor loved them. Zach is angered that the streetwise Sheila Bryant is seemingly not taking the audition seriously. As he speaks, the other dancers distrust this strange audition process and debate what they should reveal to Zach ("And."), but since they all need the job, the session continues. Bobby Mills tries to hide his unhappy childhood by making jokes. Mike replaced her one day when she refused to go to class-and he stayed. He recalls his first experience with dance, watching his sister Rosalie's dance class when he was a preschooler ("I Can Do That"). The first candidate, Mike Costa, explains that he is the youngest of 12 children. The stories generally progress chronologically from early life experiences through adulthood to the end of a career. Reluctantly, the dancers reveal their pasts. Wanting to learn more about them, he asks the dancers to introduce themselves. Zach tells them he is looking for a strong 8-member dancing chorus of four boys and four girls. After a round of cuts, 17 dancers remain. Every dancer is desperate for work ("I Hope I Get It"). The formidable director Zach and his assistant choreographer Larry put the 24 dancers through their paces. The show opens during an audition for an upcoming Broadway production. It began a lengthy run in the West End in 1976 and was revived on Broadway in 2006, and in the West End in 2013. A Chorus Line 's success has spawned many successful productions worldwide. It remains the seventh longest-running Broadway show ever. The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in 1997, and the longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the US, until surpassed in 2011 by the revival of Chicago. An unprecedented box office and critical hit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A Chorus Line provides 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.įollowing several workshops and an Off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25, 1975, directed by Michael Bennett and co-choreographed by Bennett and Bob Avian. Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line.
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A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr.