A CHORUS LINE MOVIE- Page 2

[wildcat]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 8:21am

A slight correction: although none of the original cast were in the film, Vicki Frederick (Sheila), Pam Klinger (Maggie), Matt West (Bobby) and Justin Ross(Greg) had all done the show on Broadway at some point.

[divacathe]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 10:30am

awww...i liked "A Chorus Line" it's cute... but if you wanna see a really bad movie...hahaha, go rent/buy the movie "Mommie Dearest" The Joan Crawford Story...Hilarious!

[SONDHEIM8]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 12:46pm

One of the finest theatrical achievements ever seen on stage was turned into garbage. Almost all of the choices that director Sir Richard Attenbborough made were wrong. I feel sorry for anyone who sees it as their introduction to a classic.









LINK: Tracy, you look beautiful behind bars.

TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lighting.

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 3:57pm

A Chorus Line is one of my favorite shows. I think it is absolutly perfect(or at least really close to it). Yet somehow they managed to take such brilliant material and make one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

Someone mentioned that Michael Bennett had plans to make a movie version. Does anyone have any info on this? That would of been amazing.

[Justice]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 4:00pm

My only gripe is that the actresses playing Sheila and Audrey Landers are NOWHERE NEAR their 20's - especially Sheila.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 4:06pm

Vicki Frederick who played Sheila was 30 when the film was made -- Sheila is supposed to be 29 ("Oh ..... and I'm going to be 30 soon, and I'm real ..... glad").

Audrey Landers was 26.

The film sucks, but not because the performers were too old.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 5:09pm

Avoid it at all costs.

Worst fim adaption of a Broadway muscial....EVER!

[CJR]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 5:26pm

I hate to even correct you Margo -- seeming as I've never had the need to before -- but Vicki was 35 when she filmed the movie version of A Chorus Line.

Yes, it's a crappy movie.... For me, Vicki was the one good thing about it.

And hey-- be nice Justice.... she has/had the perfect attitude to play Sheila even though she would have been much better suited as Cassie. (Her Music and the Mirror gives me CHILLS) Poor Alyson Reed was SO miscast as Cassie.

Updated On: 1/5/05 at 05:26 PM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 5:38pm

Well, IMDB has her year of birth as 1954. The film went into production in 1984 (and was released a year later). That would have made her 30. If that's not accurate, then I'm sure Ms. Frederick doesn't mind.
IMDB on Vicki Frederick

Updated On: 1/5/05 at 05:38 PM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 5:41pm

IBDB also lists 1954 as her year of birth.
IBDB on Vicki Frederick

[CJR]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 5:42pm

I know how IMDB and IBDB have her listed; I've seen it and noted the inaccuracy before.

Unlike many actresses, Vicki is proud of her age. And hell, if I were her, I would be too.

Not that I'm trying to imply she was too old for Sheila -- not at all (I think I'd get smacked for that anyway), it's just that she wasn't 30 when she filmed the movie.

Updated On: 1/5/05 at 05:42 PM

[Kimmygonbefamous]

Posted: 1/5/05 at 5:49pm

I think I liked the movie because it was so bad...it's just one of those movies that you watch just because you know you know better. Like Center Stage...the acting was vomitocious, but it's just one of those movies that my dancer friends and I watch to say "Hey, I know how to do that thing right there".

Posted: 1/5/05 at 8:38pm

Ya but Center Stage is at least filme din a way that shows off the dancing--and isn't base don superior material.

Info on the Bennett plans for a movie are in Mandelbaum's book A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett