A Chorus Line tour Chicago reviews...

[manaboutown]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 1:22pm

Here is the Chicago Tribune review of the show...quite well written and insightful I think..



chicago tribune Updated On: 4/20/09 at 01:22 PM

[manaboutown]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 1:24pm

and another...but was Gregory Gardner a stripper???? LOL!



Examiner review

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 1:32pm

this mostly young cast has a crucial quality that seemed to me mostly missing when I saw the original New York cast of Bob Avian?s 2006 Broadway revival on which this tour was based:

Something to prove.

I saw the tour in Seattle, and thought it was better than the Broadway show too, but couldn't put my finger why, and that is exactly why.

[manaboutown]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 1:32pm

YES! This critic totally nailed that point I thought.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 1:51pm

Yes, where did she get that Greg ever stripped? When he was growing up in Buffalo? Or after he came to New York?

None of the dancers talk about stripping, do they?

[Trish2]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 1:58pm

Well, Don Kerr sings in his solo, that he "really became friendly with
this stripper" ( Lola Latours)..I guess that's where that came from...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 3:03pm

But even Don wasn't a stripper. Gregory Gardner is possibly the least male-stripper-like of all the guys.

Maybe the woman who wrote that review had the hots for Alex Ringler.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 4:29pm

PJ-
Bobby grew up in Buffalo, Gregory is "very East Side, and I do not deny it"

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 4:52pm

I saw the tour in Denver and it was much better this time around than when it came through with Alan Thicke. Although Alan Thicke was better than Tom Wopat, in my opinion.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 4:54pm

When did either Allen Thicke OR Tom Wopat play Zach?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 4:59pm

uncageg, this is about A Chorus Line which is currently playing Chicago, not the show Chicago (which featured Alan Thicke and Tom Wopat at one time).

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 5:01pm

Oops. Right. I confused Bobby and Gregory.

And how did this thread morph from Chicago-the-city Chicago to Chicago-the-show?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/20/09 at 5:07pm

PJ, because someone misinterpreted the thread!