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A Chorus Line: Michael Bennett
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A Chorus Line is a 1985 musical film, based on the Broadway musical of the same title. The film starred Michael Douglas, Audrey Landers and Alyson Reed. It was directed by Richard Attenborough and written by Arnold Schulman.
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NEW YORK, 10 October 2006—The new revival of A Chorus Line, Broadway's record-breaking musical, opened last week (5 October) at the Schoenfeld Theater in New York. In previews since 18 September, A Chorus Line is more a tale about landing a job than the shameless lust for fame that is so prevalent today. The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical features a Broadway chorus dancer audition where a director demands 17 professional dancers to publicly share their most intimate memories and inner demons. At the end of the show, eightdancers are left standing on the stage. The ending brings back all the dancers in a glitzy song and dance number performed by the entire cast. Directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett with lyrics by Ed Kleban and music by Marvin Hamlisch, famous songs include At the Ballet, The Music and the Mirror, One and What I Did for Love .
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A Chorus Line opened May 21, 1975 at the 299 seat Newman Theater in the Public Theater complex, under the auspices of the New York Shakespeare Festival and Producer Joseph Papp who had helped Bennett work out its unconventional presentation format. It was a beginning that would eventually enrich the Shakespeare Festival's coffers by an estimated $38 million, enabling it to support a variety of other productions and to present free Shakespeare in New York's Central Park. Papp was quoted as saying, "Without it, we probably wouldn't be around and certainly wouldn't have been able to expand our programs."
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A Chorus Line[O]pened at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre on April 15, 1975. After an initial run of 101 performances, it moved to the Shubert Theatre where it would remain for almost fifteen years, breaking box office records and winning almost every possible award including 9 Tony Awards, 5 Drama Desk Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the London Evening Standard Award, a special citation Obie Award, and even a Gold Record Award from Columbia Records. The show finally closed on April 28, 1990, after 6,137 performances. It has been produced in over twenty countries and continues to be popular around the world. The 1985 film version features Michael Douglas.
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The August 4 issue of The New York Times featured an article on the San Francisco opening night of the revival of "A Chorus Line." The article notes that partner John Breglio is making his debut as producer of the show and is joined by many members of the musical's original creative team, including set designer Robert Wagner, composer Marvin Hamlisch and Bob Avian, the co-choreographer of the 1975 production and who is director of the 2006 revival. The article notes that many other key players in the original production have since passed away, including John Breglio's former client Michael Bennett, the show's original creator, choreographer and director. This has to be more than just another production of 'Chorus Line.'" The show is slated to open in New York on October 5, 2006.
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Playbill.com announced today that the revival of A Chorus Line has recouped its $8 million investment in an astonishing 19 weeks! That is extraordinary. Variety reports that the revival’s producer, John Breglio, plans to take the show on tour beginning in April 2008. Breglio is the executor of Michael Bennett’s estate and a legendary entertainment lawyer who represents many of Broadway’s biggest players.
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