The recent revival of A CHORUS LINE was nominated for 2 Tony Awards in 2007 including Best Revival Of A Musical but lost both categories.įUN FACT: During the run of this revival, acclaimed filmmakers James D. The revival had several lineups of replacements as well. The Voice winner Alisan Porter as ?Bebe?, Tony nominee Charlotte d'Amboise as ?Cassie?, When this revival was announced, over 3,000 people came to New York to audition for this production. This production brought back Bob Avian recreating his original staging along with the choreography reconstructed by original cast member Baayork Lee. The first and most recent revival (as seen in this video) played Broadway?s Gerald Schonenfeld Theatre for a total of 777 performances back in 2006. With the show a triumph on Broadway, A CHORUS LINE became a worldwide hit playing London's West End, Australia, and more. In addition, the show also made history as another one of the few musicals in Broadway history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Later on during its run, it received a special Tony honor for Longest Broadway Musical. Numerous replacements came throughout the entire Broadway run.Ī CHORUS LINE was nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 1976 winning 9 including Best Musical. Following it?s 1990 closing, the show began to get surpassed by the shows that originally came from the UK (including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats the Musical, and Les Miserables – Musical). It made Broadway history as the initial 1st Longest Running Show in Broadway History. The production did so well, it made the move midtown to Broadway's Shubert Theatre running for a historical (at the time) 6,137 performances. People were devastated and protested at Michael Bennett to change the ending, He listened and now today we see ?Cassie? booked the job.įollowing the 2 labs, A CHORUS LINE had its world premiere run Off Broadway at The Public Theater back in 1975. In the original script, 8 random dancers (that were not that featured) were selected to be in the show due to their ?performance quality? and the main role of ?Cassie? gets cut. Several scenes were cut and the ending of the show got rewritten. The show was developed in 2 lab workshops. In addition, Bob Avian came onboard as co-director and choreographer. All those recordings were then sent to James Kirkwood Jr and Nicholas Dante who turned it into dialogue and Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban came on board and transformed the stories into some of the beloved melodies and words we know today from the show. During the sessions, he began to take over. Dancer and Choreographer Michael Bennett (who was in the chorus of numerous shows) was invited by Peacock and Stevens to observe. They were taping interviews of fellow Broadway dancers (aka ?Gypsies?) about their experiences with performing, why they want to pursue it as a career, and got some intense questions to answer. They opened up that year's ceremony with the show's opening number that has become an anthem for struggling performers out there I HOPE IT GET IT.Ī CHORUS LINE initially concieved in 1974 as a Workshop Intensive for Dancers by Michon Peacock and Tony Stevens in 1974.
and Nicholas Dante, and of course legendary direction and staging by the late Michael Bennett.įrom the 1976 telecast, the original cast perform the show's 2 signature moments. The show featured a score by the late Marvin Hamlisch and late Edward Kleban, a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. Of course, we are talking about the legendary musical A Chorus Line. In addition, we get to learn about some of those performers who are wanting to prove to the director why they deserve the gig.
Can you believe its getting closer? Here comes another showstopper.Īt # 23 on our countdown, we experience a show about the first step that over millions of aspiring performers go through with wanting to be in a cast of a show? The auditions. We are continuing to wake all of you up each morning playing you the best performances from the previous telecasts on our TOP 40 TONY AWARDS COUNTDOWN.
We are just 23 DAYS AWAY till the Tony Awards.