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A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#25
Posted: 6/9/26 at 10:25am
TheatreFan4 said: "I feel like paying Donna McKechnie and a few Cassies to recreate that Music and the Mirror from the concert would have been cheaper than Rachel Zegler?"
They already had an ensemble of dancers on hand. Would it have been so difficult to recreate the "One (Rehearsal)" number, pantomimed behind her as she sang?
So many options that noone had enough respect for the show to act on.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#26
Posted: 6/9/26 at 11:02am
bwayobsessed said: "I thought Zegler was phenomenal. It felt a bit random but she sounded great"
OK, true - but... Didn't meet the brief.
This was supposed to be a tribute to the 50th anniversary of a show that changed Broadway history (like "Oklahoma" did).
The focus should have been on celebrating "A Chorus Line". To celebrate Zegler instead is/was (IMO) insulting.
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#27
Posted: 6/9/26 at 11:45am
Call_me_jorge said: "Curious who was behind the tribute, I wouldn’t be shocked if Jamie Lloyd just paid the tony awards to shoehorn a number for his star to perform."
I think it's pretty obvious an EVITA producer asked if she could be on. As someone noted earlier, the same formula of having Nicole sing the same song for In Memoriam the year before SUNSET.
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#28
Posted: 6/9/26 at 12:46pm
After it was done I started thinking what they could have done with this tribute. I came up with something like this:
Featuring 5 past cast members. Mike Berresse comes out with the Tony dancers/singers onstage dressed close to the original costumes, delivers a line or two right before yelling "Ah 5, 6, 7, 8!". They go into a shortened version "I Hope I Get It" ending at the point of the 4 notes before "Who Am I Anyway". On those 4 notes 4 original cast members step up to the line from the darkness behind with their original headshot pictures each dropping them on a note and them being shown on the screen behind them.. (Cilento, Lee, McKechnie, and Lopez) They go right into Lopez doing "What I Did For Love" and it is done as it was with the cast joining near the end of the song. On the last note the "cast" steps back into the darkness leaving the four originals standing on the line with the original show logo/poster on the screen behind them.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#29
Posted: 6/9/26 at 1:15pm
There are quite a bit of living original cast members of A CHORUS LINE aside from the obvious ones who are always representing the show.
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#30
Posted: 6/9/26 at 1:47pm
BrodyFosse123 said: "There are quite a bit of living original cast members of A CHORUS LINE aside from the obvious ones who are always representing the show."
I am aware of that. Looked some up but settled on those. Chose Berresee as LuPone has passed away. A lot of people who may have been watching may not even know who the people I chose are. Those are the people I would like to see though.
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#31
Posted: 6/9/26 at 2:10pm
It didn't even occur to me to be outraged about the lack of dancing as the song is without a doubt the most famous, lasting thing to come out of the show ( coincidentally the first musical I ever saw back in the day).
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#32
Posted: 6/9/26 at 3:28pm
Claude Perkins said: "It didn't even occur to me to be outraged about the lack of dancing as the song is without a doubt the most famous, lasting thing to come out of the show ( coincidentally the first musical I ever saw back in the day)."
...it's a show that's literally about....dancers.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#33
Posted: 6/9/26 at 4:48pm
uncageg said: "A lot of people who may have been watching may not even know who the people I chose are."
Which emphasizes the segment as being even more of an epic failure. 
A CHORUS LINE Tribute Fail#34
Posted: 6/9/26 at 5:41pm
My first thought was, “Ummmm-The Rockettes”? My 2nd thought was, “The entire ensemble from Schmigadoon was there, and could have done an amazing One performance.”
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