She feels it is important for contemporary audiences to experience A Chorus Line as Bennett conceived it.
Over a series of workshops, Bennett condensed those individual biographies into the characters that appear in A Chorus Line.
He could write in very diverse styles, a very contemporary sound for A Chorus Line, in a nostalgic style for The Way We Were.
And perform Indelicate did, to the tune of "One" from "A Chorus Line, " with backup from others cast members and a slew of 10-foot-tall dancers in Guadalajara ponchos.
Les Miz, A Chorus Line and The Fantasticks three record-breaking musicals are back on the New York stage this fall in carefully crafted replicas of their original productions.
That includes Terrence Mann ("The Addams Family, " "Beauty and the Beast, " the original "Cats") as the king, and Charlotte d'Amboise ("A Chorus Line, " "Jerome Robbins' Broadway") as the sexy stepmother.
"I think when you try to replicate with such archival exactitude what the original Chorus Line was, or what the original Fantasticks was, perversely, you end up diluting the original impact, " Brantley says.
All the same, the set serves the action, and an impressively sinister Te Deum procession closes the act: priests and altar boys advance in a thick crowd behind Scarpia a chorus line of malignant power.
With a CV that includes staging Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard and choreography for Martin Guerre and The Witches of Eastwick, Bob Avian returned to A Chorus Line when he was asked to direct the 2006 Broadway revival.
Based on Brooks' 1968 movie of the same name, The Producers - about the worst musical ever written - had required Dreyfuss to sing and dance with co-star Lee Evans and at one point do both with a chorus line.
Notsensibles guitarist Steven Hartley told the BBC News website the song - which features the chorus line "I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher, I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher, I'm in love with Maggie T" - had been conceived as a satirical swipe at the former Conservative leader.
Patrick's Day tradition at his pub: allowing any patron bearing an Irish passport to jump the line, inevitably to a chorus of catcalls from scores of Canadians shivering in line outside.
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She was working nights at a restaurant in the Village, then going home to Brooklyn and waking in the dark to put on full makeup and stand in line for early-morning chorus calls back in Manhattan.
"When I came into the company (dancers started) in the chorus and a few years down the line you get your featured roles, then you get your solo roles and then you get your principal roles, " Capucilli says.
Fans offered a rousing ovation at the finish, and the chorus then trotted to the 20-yard line and turned, with their hands on their hearts, to watch Alicia Keys sing the national anthem.
At that point I would have been happy to forget the whole thing, and slink off home, but it wasn't to be: A rousing chorus of "Jerusalem" from opera singer Sean Ruane, and we too were pouring across the line.
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