A Chorus Line

Cruel theatre director Zach sits in the dark, smoking and judging dancers one by one as they audition for his new show. Musical drama which was originally a big hit on Broadway., Broadway’s celebratory musical about rejection makes it to the screen in a fizzless adaptation by Richard Attenborough that misses the whole point of the Broadway show — i.e. the dancing and the dancers. Instead, the dancers become a limp Greek chorus for the dead love affair between a choreographer, Zach (a pre-Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas) and his old flame, Cassie (Alyson Reed) the star dancer. Zach is holding try-outs for a new Broadway musical and, as armies of dancers are brought on stage to audition for Zach, he sits in the darkened recesses of the theater, puffing on a cigarette, as he winnows out hopeful dancers who want to become part of the chorus line for Zach’s new show. Finally, Zach has reduced the dancers to 16 men and women, and he asks each of them to step to the footlights and tell him about their lives and their dreams. But backstage, while the dancers are confessing their pasts to Zach, Zach’s past walks through the stage door. Cassie, Zach’s ex-lover, whom Zach met, courted and broke up with in the theatrical environs, has returned. Once a big star, Cassie has returned to the theater — not to see Zach but to audition for Zach’s musical. She needs the work., Richard Attenborough’s adaptation of Michael Bennett’s smash musical about the dreams of dancers at an audition. Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann. Paul: Cameron English. Val: Audrey Landers. Sheila: Vicki Frederick. Mike: Charles McGowan. Morales: Yamil Borges. Richie: Gregg Burge. Songs by Marvin Hamlisch., Colourful adaptation of the long-running musical about a group of young – and not-so young – hopefuls arriving at a Broadway theatre to audition for a new show. Their dreams and futures depend on how they perform, as each strives to be the ‘one singular sensation’.