![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, I wished for someone to approach the musical with new eyes. Nearly every professional company since director and choreographer Michael Bennett’s blazingly iconic 1975 production has presented a paint-by-numbers facsimile that led me to declare “A Chorus Line” the “amber fossil of musicals” following 2018’s otherwise thrilling gala presentation at New York City Center ( read my review). In the case of “A Chorus Line”, itself a groundbreaking revolution for Broadway and American musical theatre writ-large-earning nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize before becoming (for a time) the longest running show in Broadway history by a long-shot-the property has not been well-served by an ideology of museum preservation exercised by its small circle of legacy-keepers. The pesky problem with game-changing musicals like “Oklahoma!”, “A Chorus Line”, or “Rent” is that once they change the game, the game has been changed for all that follows, which, ironically, can make them seem quaint by comparison. ![]()
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