#76
Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:41pm
PalJoey's post was really beautiful.
My first exposure to A Chorus Line was the movie. I HATED it. I swore up and down that if that "garbage" ever made it back to Broadway I was staying far away. When I first heard plans for the revival, I did just that. I wouldn't hear any of it. Then, the revival opened on Broadway. From the first video clip I saw, I was sold. All of a sudden the "garbage" seemed like something really interesting. I talked about the show so much that I received not one, but two copies of the cast recording for Christmas.
I didn't actually see the show until May of last year. I had been registering for my first semester in college, and realized that if I ran, I would have just enough time to grab a standing room ticket to that day's performance. I hauled it across town, making it to the Schoenfeld about 15 minutes before that day's matinee. I asked for standing room, and the man at the box office told me that he had one more lottery ticket left. In the front row. I took this first bit of good fortune as a sign, and went to find my seat.
Well, I couldn't have imagined what was in store. From the minute that the show started, I was in complete awe. I had never been so immediately taken in by a show before. Everything about it was perfect. I found myself relating to a lot of things about the show, particularly the song "At the Ballet." Dance has always been sort of an "escape route" for me. It was just little things like that about the music and the characters that I related to. The material spoke to me not only as a dancer, but as a person in general. I laughed, I cried, and had a generally amazing experience.
I was too young to see the original production, but A Chorus Line is still a show that holds a special place in my heart.
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My first exposure to A Chorus Line was the movie. I HATED it. I swore up and down that if that "garbage" ever made it back to Broadway I was staying far away. When I first heard plans for the revival, I did just that. I wouldn't hear any of it. Then, the revival opened on Broadway. From the first video clip I saw, I was sold. All of a sudden the "garbage" seemed like something really interesting. I talked about the show so much that I received not one, but two copies of the cast recording for Christmas.
I didn't actually see the show until May of last year. I had been registering for my first semester in college, and realized that if I ran, I would have just enough time to grab a standing room ticket to that day's performance. I hauled it across town, making it to the Schoenfeld about 15 minutes before that day's matinee. I asked for standing room, and the man at the box office told me that he had one more lottery ticket left. In the front row. I took this first bit of good fortune as a sign, and went to find my seat.
Well, I couldn't have imagined what was in store. From the minute that the show started, I was in complete awe. I had never been so immediately taken in by a show before. Everything about it was perfect. I found myself relating to a lot of things about the show, particularly the song "At the Ballet." Dance has always been sort of an "escape route" for me. It was just little things like that about the music and the characters that I related to. The material spoke to me not only as a dancer, but as a person in general. I laughed, I cried, and had a generally amazing experience.
I was too young to see the original production, but A Chorus Line is still a show that holds a special place in my heart.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
