This is the original broadway cast of A Chorus Line, the revolutionary and long-running musical created by the legendary choreographer/director Michael Bennet.
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@themosttalenteddotcom3 жыл бұрын
In 1976 I asked my wife to marry me at this show. 44 years later and 6 grandkids later, we're still going strong.
@aidanparker5986Ай бұрын
EPIC
@johnyohalem650711 жыл бұрын
That was a great night. I kinda felt sorry for every other show coming into town. We all knew it was a walkover for Chorus Line (9 nominations, 8 wins). And it was sort of a stratospheric peak of acclaim for gay life in New York (seven years after Stonewall, five years before the chasm of AIDS opened beneath our feet): We (in our secretive mask) were the rulers of Broadway, and if not there, where? and if there, everywhere. It was heady. And the joy at the end of the show was ... palpable.
@joshuapurity10 жыл бұрын
Just got chills watching this. That ending when they're holding up their resumes speaks volumes about the life and experiences of people auditioning for broadway. Cool performance - thanks for posting!
@craigslivka14 жыл бұрын
I saw A Chorus Line for my 13 birthday, a lifetime ago, and have watched many versions of different songs from different revivals, the movie, university theatre groups, and every version except the original falls very flat on many levels. This is called Musical Theatre, not musical theater where we can kinda hear the music. The music must inspire, drive, push the emotions, bodies and spirits of the performers to live in real time the lyrics they are singing. And it is not just the original score that gets composed but also the arrangements. This version, the original Broadway cast on youtube, lives, breathes, and are the the total embodiment of the lyrics that they are singing. Too many times performers today get stuck simply singing notes, or dancing steps, they forget to create real human beings, reacting to the surrounding environment around them within the written/musical situation that was created. I felt, laughed, cried, and became very excited at many points during this number. The purpose of theatre is to make a person feel, think, and live thru the eyes of the characters on stage. Many Broadway performers today should watch the Musical Theatre Actors from before Andrew Llyold Webber and Aids, and maybe learn many things to bring unto the stage to really give the audiences their moneys worth.
@flyingspotscanner12 жыл бұрын
Thanks to "ACL" for shining the follow spot on the lives and talents of chorus line "gypsies" everywhere. Break a leg, boys & girls! And do it for love.
@bhaskardancer10 жыл бұрын
When I was touring and we were teaching the repertoire to the new dancers we went to see this on Broadway several times after Bhaskar was injured. I still cry every time i watch this number.... We used a lot of hankies in the theatre, too.... This cast.... so many memories - so personal.
@bingovegas48673 ай бұрын
What's a Bhaskar?????
@paganpup11 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more. The other part that just gives me chills is that final iconic look of the dancers with their headshots in front of their faces. Every actor knows exactly how that feels.
@bingovegas48673 ай бұрын
And to think next year will be the 50th anniversary of this glorious show opening on Broadway! 1975-2025.🎉
@BethPaige6 жыл бұрын
watched this a bunch. What I love is all the individual dancers having to halfway do the dance correctly, making intentional mistakes throughout. fascinating and unable to stop watching.
@tejaswoman6 ай бұрын
For example, the guy with the headband. He has to deliberately keep remembering to duck his head as his character has been instructed on stage _not_ to do. Likewise, Kelly Bishop as Sheila has to keep almost doing the step right, then getting messed up by the person in front of her but not _quite_ enough to end up running into them.
@AdventuresofLydia10 жыл бұрын
we're learning this in my dance class at school rn. when i first watched this show, i honestly thought i'd never be able to do this dance, but having some experience under my belt now, it's quite do-able :)
@Kewpie8312 жыл бұрын
Love the 'I knew it when I was in front' bit!
@mizermelon9912 жыл бұрын
I took a Broadway dance class last semester and this was one of our final dances we learned. The way we learned dances was the director would show us, slow it down, dance it with us, and then we'd test the following class. Honestly, I never had any issue picking up this dance of all the dances. I still can do the broadway choreography of God I hope I get it!!!:D Swear by that class.
@Elsbelspeace10 жыл бұрын
learned this for new york audition, I'm hoping i get it haha
@capoeiranut10 жыл бұрын
God, I hope you get it. I hope you get it, ha ha. But I do mean it. You seem nice, so I hope you get the part
@Elsbelspeace10 жыл бұрын
capoeiranut I DID GET IT!!!!! AHHHH!!!
@capoeiranut10 жыл бұрын
Ellie Cook Congratulations! What's the part?
@Elsbelspeace10 жыл бұрын
its not a part its a training program in New york with browday casting directors and producers plus directors actors and choreographers
@capoeiranut10 жыл бұрын
Ellie Cook Still just as cool. You'll get to spend time with a bunch of people who love making productions and it'll look good on future audition forms. Are you scared?
@TroublingTrinny11 жыл бұрын
look at that talent on the stage...amazing
@kikiteka11 жыл бұрын
Everytime I apply for a job this song goes through my head.
@aidanparker5986Ай бұрын
literally me especially the ending when Paul sings who am i anyway
@stephenp410711 жыл бұрын
While Patti LuPone can sing the shit out of anything her brother (as Zach) is the true dancer out of the two...
@kareneastman96955 жыл бұрын
I'm going to get the A Chorus Line dvd for Christmas.:-):-D
@fmcgucket3076 Жыл бұрын
Ok who else gets audition flashbacks from this number
@mikaelajayy11 жыл бұрын
i had to dance to a part of this during my auditions for "best of broadway" in my school and a different part for my ballet test tmrw.
@IdolSearchDuets12 жыл бұрын
i saw this show back n the day.. was great :)
@ritetheology11 жыл бұрын
"God I hope I get it........" Love this show.
@VankVank11 жыл бұрын
Aww I love that Musical
@mylesharris30506 жыл бұрын
RIP Sammy Williams
@garretthoy506610 жыл бұрын
The darn double turn always gets me
@FranciscoRochacisco11 жыл бұрын
Loveeeeeeeeeeee this!!!
@stephheim10 жыл бұрын
i died from bennett lunges xD but im learning this for my conservatory and it's intense..
@charlieedwards43319 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@29psalm11 жыл бұрын
Go for it!
@LeoOnasshow11 жыл бұрын
¡Que movimientos! ¡Exactitud!
@broadwaymac48612 жыл бұрын
Yay, I KZfaq vid of this performance with the audio and video in sync :)
@tenorbear6011 жыл бұрын
I don't think any cast could top the original cast. Case in point - Donna McKecknie as Cassie - no one can outdance her when she was in her prime. I have never seen a touring company that could touch the sharpness and speed in this opening number. Such great memories...
@johnhaslam4347 жыл бұрын
I agree. However the singing (it is understandable however) wasn't as good in the original as in the revival. It pains me to say it😂
@Bobbybabybobbybubbie5 жыл бұрын
@@johnhaslam434 I saw the 2016 Stratford Festival production which was uniformly well-sung, and I gotta say I missed those imperfect voices, so full of character.
@tejaswoman6 ай бұрын
@@johnhaslam434precisely because it was supposed to be about them as dancers.
@ninakaylee13 жыл бұрын
awesome :)
@emeraldeye1412 жыл бұрын
It's performing in Australia soon.
@COLovesYou112 жыл бұрын
5, 6, 7, 8!
@iiheartlivey3 жыл бұрын
Wow
@actuallybee218411 жыл бұрын
6:02 Is incredibly painful to watch. For performers that pain is so real...
@ambermarks79111 жыл бұрын
it's now in the west end in london I think
@cookietypething11 жыл бұрын
They DID bring it back on Broadway, in 2006. Highly unlikely they'd do it again any time soon.
@bingovegas48673 ай бұрын
They have been in talks for a return in 2025, the 50th anniversary!
@Montimon11 жыл бұрын
5, 6, 7, 8¡¡
@bryanambition11 жыл бұрын
instead of waiting for it to come back on broadway, why don't you propose for it to come back at a community theatre near you? with all that ambition, you'll be a shoo-in for the lead (though i'd go for sheila) ;-)!!
@yui_man85453 жыл бұрын
I just like land of the lost
@29psalm11 жыл бұрын
i know, right?
@Annesglitter3 жыл бұрын
Ouch. The spring play doesn't look so good for me. I cannot dance
@Juni97612 жыл бұрын
Do you sing? Act?
@mulvaney60674 жыл бұрын
what year is this?
@tejaswoman6 ай бұрын
ca. 1976
@FaisonDor11 жыл бұрын
I could do that.............not really.
@Midnightmoon6898 жыл бұрын
Je trouve que ça fait vraiment gay 0_o
@beaniepollard82908 жыл бұрын
Is the French word for gay really "gay"?
@mariamal-arda68847 жыл бұрын
lofl
@tejaswoman6 ай бұрын
Did you think this was some kind of contribution to the world of commenting? Just checking because if you did, I would want to make sure you were disabused of that notion. It's a spectacularly stupid comment.