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Choreographie: Michael Bennett |
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Music: Marvin Hamlisch |
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Lyrics: Edvard Kleban |
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Book: James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante |
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.
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The songs: |
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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 |
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... |
The 9 Tony Awards won by A CHORUS LINE in 1976:
1. BEST BROADWAY
MUSICAL
2. BEST ACTRESS
IN A BROADWAY MUSICAL
3. BEST ACTOR
IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A BROADWAY MUSICAL
4. BEST ACTRESS
IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A BROADWAY MUSICAL
5. BEST DIRECTOR
OF A BROADWAY MUSICAL
6. BOOK OF
A BROADWAY MUSICAL
7. BEST SCORE
OF A BROADWAY MUSICAL
8. BEST LIGHTING
DESIGNER OF A BROADWAY PLAY
9. BEST CHOREOGRAPHER
OF A BROADWAY MUSICAL
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