A CHORUS LINE scenery question

[morosco]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 2:17pm

Here's something I can't remember about the revival. When the audience enters the theatre before the show is the white line that's painted on the stage floor visible? If not, is there a black velour drop that's been flown in that flies out as soon as the houselights go to black?

[WestVillage]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 2:22pm

Yes, the white line is visible.

[morosco]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 2:23pm

Thanks WestVillage.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 3:10pm

When my high school did the show, the dancers were in and out warming up. It was a cool effect.

[WestVillage]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 3:50pm

Ugh! That would NEVER happen in a professional production of ACL. The audience walks into the theatre with a BARE STAGE, no dancers warming up. I hate when directors take liberties like that. The beauty of the opening is that the audience has been sitting there looking at a bare stage, then the lights go down to pitch black darkness, and boom ... this explosion of dancers, movement, lights, mirrors and music.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 3:54pm

Say what you like. But I was pretty blown away for a high school production. You seem a tad annoyed for something that does not really affect you.

[James885]

Posted: 3/19/07 at 4:42pm

I saw a college production last year that was like that. When the audience entered the theatre the stage was bare but about 10 mintues before the show started, the dancers would come onstage and do their warm-up stretches, etc. Since I never saw the original (I wasn't even alive when it opened) and have yet to see the revival I just assumed that was how it's done in the Broadway productions.