
	`Choreographie`: Michael Bennett
	`Music:` Marvin Hamlisch
	`Lyrics:` Edvard Kleban
	`Book:` James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante

Story- Songs- Opening lines - Tony Awards- Links

Story:

Zach, director and coreograph, is looking for 4 female and 4 male dancers to a Broadway-musical.

Only 8 dancers with the right skill and the right looks.

The audition begins.. in fact the whole musical is an audition.

They dance, sing and tell their story, a story of the youth, the domestic expectations, the development, the growing-up. In short: The life of a dancer.

"A Chorus Line" shows the off-stage-reality: Hope and glory. Sorrow and despair. Ambitions and envy. Laughter and cry.

And a bit couldn't-care-less. The youngsters and the old-timers all striving for the same goal; a job in the chorus line.

	The songs:
	1 I hope I get it 2 I can do that 3 "And" 4 At the Ballez 5 Sing! 6 Hello twelve, hello thirteen, hello love 7 Nothing 8 Dance: Ten: Looks: Three 9 The music and the mirror 10 One 11 The tap combination 12 What I did for love 13 One: Reprise

Today, I want you to tell me about your stage name...

The first spoken lines.. Zach is located in the middle of the audience, talking to the dancer who have lined up on the stage front:

Zach:	Today, I want you to tell me about your stage name, real name if it´s different. And I also want to know where you were born and when... We´ll start on the end, stage right, please.
Don:	Ah - twenty-six.
Zach:	Start with your name and step forward.
Don:	My real name is Don Kerr. Ah - Kansas City, Kansas. October 20, 1951.
Zach:	Next.
Maggie:	Maggie Winslow.
Zach:	Louder.
Maggie:	Maggie Winslow. Sometimes known as Margaret, Margie, Peggy. All of above. Whatever, it's real and I was born in San Mateo, California an a Thursday evening at 10:40 p.m., August 17, 1950.
Mike:	I'm Mike Costa. It used be Costafalone. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, July 9, 1953, which makes me twenty-four.
Zach:	Next.
Connie:	Connie Wong. It's always been Connie Wong. I was born in Chinatown - Lower East Side.
Zach:	Your age?
Bobby:	Go on. Miss Wong.
Connie:	Ah - December 5, four thousand six hundred and forty-two. The year of the Chicken.
Zach:	Next.
Greg:	My real name is Sidney Kenneth Beckenstein. My Jewish name is Rochmel Lev Ben Yakov Meyer Beckenstein, and my professional name is Gregory Gardner. Very East Side, and I do not deny it. Born August 2, 1945
Val:	Well, as far as I'm concerned I'm Valery Clark. But my parents think I'm Margaret Mary Houlihan. Couldn't you just die? I was born in the middle of nowhere. A little town called Arlington, Vermont. Bye.
Zach:	How old are you?
Val:	Old. No - twenty-five.
Sheila:	I'm Sheila Bryant. Really Sara Rosemary Bryant, which I really hate. I was born August 8, 1948 in Colorado springs, Colorado. And I'm going to be thirty real soon... And I'm real glad.
Bobby:	I'm Robert Charles Joseph Henry Mills, III, that's my real name too. I come from upstate New York near Buffalo. I can't remember the name of the town. I've blocked it out. Born, March 15, 1952.
Bebe:	My name is Bebe Benzenheimer - and I know, I gotta change it. Born June 6, 1950. I come from Boston. And here I am!
Judy:	My name ist Judy Turner. My real name is Lana Turner. No, no - it's always been Judy Turner. Born July 21, 1947. Oh, I was born El Paso - El Paso, Texas.
Zach:	Good, next.
Richie:	My name is Richie Walters. I'm from Herculanium, Missouri. I was born on a full moon on June 13, 1950. And I'm black.
Diana:	My real name is Diana Morales. And I didn't change it 'cause I figured ethnic was in. Six-ten-fifty. You got that? And I was born on a Hollywood bed in the Bronx.
Zach:	Go on, Diana...