A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line, the hit Broadway musical of the 70's, is still making waves today. I have not seen this musical and would love to see it. While checking where it's playing, I found out the running schedule at: http://www.achorusline.com/index.php

A Chorus Line is a musical about seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante wrote the book, Edward Kleban wrote the lyrics and Marvin Hamlisch composed the music.

With nineteen main characters, it is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for a musical. The show 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.

The original Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Buffalo, N.Y. native Michael Bennett was an unprecedented box office and critical hit, receiving 12 Tony Award nominations and winning nine of them, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time. It remains the longest running Broadway musical originally produced in the United States, and the fourth longest-running Broadway show ever. The show has enjoyed many successful productions worldwide and was revived on Broadway in 2006.

It played recently at the Shea Stadium in Buffalo, NY from May 5 - May 10. I would have checked it out if I knew earlier. Buffalo is just about 1 1/2 - 2 hours drive from home. The show has an Ottawa performance in October, but that is too far a drive, at least 5 hours.

Then all Canada play dates will be out west.

"We, too. We, too." The two budgies of the house were doing a chorus, as if loving to see the show, too.

Budgies at a Broadway musical? Maybe, when the musical Cats comes back to Toronto.