A Chorus Line is a Broadway musical that opened at the Shubert Theatre on July 25, 1975 and closed on April A Chorus Line tickets 28, 1990 after 6,137 performances. It held the distinction of being the longest running show on Broadway until A Chorus Line tickets it was surpassed by Cats in 1997 and The Phantom of the Opera in 2006. It currently holds the record for the A Chorus Line tickets second longest running American musical, after The Fantasticks and the fifth longest-running musical, after A Chorus Line tickets The Fantasticks, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Misérables (in that order).
The musical is based on several taped sessions with Broadway dancers, aka "gypsies," including eight of the A Chorus Line tickets actors/actresses of the original Broadway cast. The show was conceived, directed and choreographed by Michael A Chorus Line tickets Bennett, with music A Chorus Line New York tickets by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. The book was assembled by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante. It had a successful Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater before opening on Broadway.
A Chorus Line also toured successfully, including a run at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. A production A Chorus Line tickets mounted at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London's West End won a Laurence Olivier Award as Best Musical of A Chorus Line tickets the Year 1976, the first year in which the awards were presented.
The first Broadway revival of A Chorus Line opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on October 5, 2006.
With 19 main characters, the setting is a Broadway theater where young dancers audition for the part in the A Chorus Line tickets chorus line of a musical. The show gives a glimpse into the personalities A Chorus Line New York tickets of the performers and the A Chorus Line tickets choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. A Chorus Line tickets Highlights include the songs "One"," "Nothing," "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three," "The Music and the Mirror" and A Chorus Line tickets "What I Did For Love."
A Chorus Line received 12 nominations for the Tony Awards in 1975, winning nine: Best Musical, Best Actress (Donna McKechnie), Best Featured Actor (Sammy Williams), Best Featured Actress (Carole Bishop), Best Director A Chorus Line tickets (Michael Bennett), Best Musical Book (Dante and Kirkwood), Best Score (Hamlisch and Kleban), Best Lighting Design (Tharon Musser) and Best Choreography (Michael Bennett and Bob Avian). It also won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of the few musicals ever to receive this honor, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle A Chorus Line New York tickets Award for Best Play of the season.
Since its inception, the show's many A Chorus Line New York tickets worldwide productions, both professional and amateur, have been a major source of income for The Public Theater.
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