"A Chorus Line" will have NO intermission!

[jimnysf]

"A Chorus Line" will have NO intermission!#0

Posted: 7/17/06 at 2:47pm

I wrote to the SF Chorus Line website to point out that they had an intermission listed on their site. As of right now, it is no longer there and the running time has been changed to: "Approximately 2 hours (no intermission). Great news. (See other thread).


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[TomMonster]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#1

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:27pm

Great news indeed! Thanks for clearing it up!

"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

[morosco]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#2

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:29pm

Thank goodness!

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#3

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:50pm

Let's hope people won't complain about not being able to go to the bathroom for two hours.

[mominator]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#4

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:55pm

There is really no need for one in ACL,but I may be in the minority on this one.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[Michael Bennett]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#5

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:57pm

Well, lets just hope they do the show at the right tempos: when done right, the show is closer to 1:50.

[mominator]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#6

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:12pm

That is what I seem to remember MB, but it has been a while.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[morosco]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#7

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:14pm

"...when done right, the show is closer to 1:50."

I agree.

[Michael Bennett]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#8

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:17pm

When you watch the tape of the show at the Public, the tempos are actually the first thing you notice. Bennett really took the show at a feverish pitch. Surely Lee and Bob Avian will do the same. The danger comes when you let the actors languish over those monologues.

[jrb_actor]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#9

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:24pm

Poor rentboy's bladder! And he'll feel cheated!

I do hope you enjoy the musical, rentboy--it's terrific!

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[TomMonster]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#10

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:26pm

When I spent time on the original production, sometimes the show came in around 1:45. Depends on the audience.

Kinda like "Drowsy". The laughter can easily add another 15 minutes to the show...

"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

[Michael Bennett]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#11

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:29pm

Is A CHORUS LINE really that funny? I mean 15 minutes in laughs? That must have been when Phyllis Diller was playing Cassie.

[TomMonster]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#12

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:51pm

Very funny MB!! Actually, it was Charlotte Rae with Nipsey Russell as Paul...

I should have been clearer. The applause in ACL can add minutes to the show. And/or the conducter, dancer's, etc...

"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

[NYadgal]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#13

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:56pm

Great news!

I don't want them to change a thing...

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[Jon]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#14

Posted: 7/17/06 at 7:38pm

Why is it that every time I go to the movies, at least 95% of the audience seems to manage to sit through a two hour movie without getting up to pee, yet people worry about a sitting through a play with no intermission?

Personally, I've never gotten up in the middle of a movie, and i very rarely try to use the restroom during intermission of a play. I usually stay in my seat.

[morosco]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#15

Posted: 7/17/06 at 8:04pm

"The danger comes when you let the actors languish over those monologues."

Do I recall reading that during some rehearsals of the original production Bennett placed a metronome on the edge of stage to help pace the monologues? Sounds crazy but I thought I read that years and years ago. Then again, maybe it was in one of my stranger dreams.

[RentBoy86]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#16

Posted: 7/17/06 at 8:55pm

We all can't be you Jon. Some of us pee.

Jerby, thanks! I guess I'll just to have squeeze something out before I get to my seat - ha. What's sad is I used the bathroom before I saw Brooklyn, but by the time they got to "Streetsinger" I was having a hard time sitting still, I needed to go - ha. I guess I just won't drink anything aboug 3 hours prior to curtain.

[Victoria Grant]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#17

Posted: 7/17/06 at 9:44pm

Great News!!!

I am really interested in seeing what they will do differently (if anything) I was a little disapointed that they cast Charlotte Damboise(sp) as Cassie, I thought that Marc Kudish would have made a great Zack but that is just my thoughts....

[EponineAmneris]

re: 'A Chorus Line' will have NO intermission!#18

Posted: 7/17/06 at 9:45pm

Glad to know this was changed and it's offical: no intermission YAY! The way it should be.

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