![]() ![]() I didn’t steal anything I’d just rearrange their furniture.”). Elaine Marcos) gets one of the most enduringly funny numbers in Broadway history, the ode to her surgical reupholstery, “Dance: Ten Looks: Three.” Maggie (Sara Esty) sings about her broken family and her escape to dancing in “At the Ballet.” Bobby (Jay Armstrong Johnson) has a hilarious monologue about life as a young psychopath. Simeone), about how she can’t sing: She talks her way through, he sings the ends of her sentences. One dancer, Kristine (Kate Bailey), stars in a brilliant comic duet with her husband, Al (Joseph J. And yet your likely fate is, at best, to eke out a living for maybe a dozen years before you give up and become a dance/music/drama teacher for the next generation of hopeless hopefuls. If you made it this far, to the final cut of a Broadway audition, you must have been the most spectacular talent anyone ever saw in your school, your town, your state. A Broadway stage is Talent Olympus, an aerie of gods. ![]() “We’re all special,” an actual line from the show, is one of those ghastly clichés, one that was just gaining strength in 1975, but in the context of the elites in A Chorus Line it is perfectly apt. and Nicholas Dante) and the songs (music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban) gives each of 17 hopefuls at a Broadway audition a chance to shine, to stand out from the pack, via varying amounts of soul-searching monologue, song, and dance. It’s miraculous how a combination of the book (by James Kirkwood Jr. This time I got it: Now that I’ve seen a few other musicals, A Chorus Line reaches me right in the aorta. How often do you get to relive an experience you had when you were a teen? Once in a great while, though, life gives you a mulligan, and this weekend A Chorus Line is not only being put up in midtown Manhattan again (at City Center through Sunday night) but, in accordance with zealously enforced tradition, is being staged just like the original Michael Bennett–directed production, which was the longest-running show in Broadway history when it closed in 1990 after a 15-year run. ![]()
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