BREAKING NEWS: A CHORUS LINE RETURNS TO BROADWAY 2006- Page 4

[karlean7]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 5:25pm

I am humongously excited for this. I have been wishing for a revival ever since I first started listening to it, which was over 2 years ago, and have kicked myself continuously for being born much later than would have been possible to see it and really take it all in.

Anyway, as for the dated aspect of the show, there are some, but I don't think it's what you guys have been talking about. The only parts of the show that seem dated to me are things like "Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my god Robert Goulet!" During The Montage, there are a lot of pop culture references that mostly go over my head (Steve McQueen? Hell, I barely know what Peyton's Place is), but that's the only thing I can think of that seems less than utterly timeless.

I am ecstatic.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 5:33pm

YES! I am TOO excited for words!

[MusicMan]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 5:42pm

An act of desperation by a dinosaur Broadway lumbering to its creatively tapped-out death, producing the same handful of classic plays and musicals over and over and over again.
The end is near.

[SeeIreallycouldn'tSING!!]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 6:03pm

I am sooooo excited. I was in Chorus Line about a year ago ( I was Kristine) and it changed by life. I even adopted my cosutme as what I wear to ballet class. I was putting it on and I got an email and there is was! SOOOOO shocked! Totallly audtioning! I'm so glad they are giving me like a year to grow up! so exciting! Its gonna be great! When do tickets go on sale! ??

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 6:17pm

YYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:25pm

This is now the offical CHORUS CASTING thread. We must cast this thing before they start putting Audra and Kristen in it.

My suggestions:

Nancy Leminger Cassie
Natascha Diaz Morales

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:38pm

John Stamos as Zach?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:45pm

I suggest no casting speculation except for Cassie and Zach and maybe not Zach. It would be so great if there is nobody anybody has ever heard of. And yes, that means three-named chorus boys whose pictures BG2 has only seen on the Hairspray website but with whose work he implies great familiarity.

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:38pm

What do people think about having Christy Carlson Romano sing "Music in the mirror?"

[AnothaPartofMe]

Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:12pm

What theatre will it play? Can't go back to the Shubert, SPAMALOT will be there, most likely...

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:16am

It's 21 months until the opening -- half the shows open now will have closed by then. There's absolutely no way to predict now what theatres will be available almost two years into the future.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:11am

Nancy Lemenager as Cassie - only if Cassie doesn't sing a note.

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:47am

I think having Christy Carlson Romano sing ANYTHING is a bad bad bad idea

[LullabyOfBroadway54]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 3:18pm

There's only one and the girl who plays Sheila, her voice SUCKS big time. Download the songs for free unless you don't mind listening to her horrible voice.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/17/05 at 9:37am

Not to shed a curtain over all this optimism....but since the halcyon days ACL, the backstage chorus kid story has been told over and over again through "Fame" another vehicles and the mid70's has little nostalgic appeal. Point being, without some updating and serious tweaking of the book, a contemporary version of "A Chorus Line" contains a lot of material that is dated and very "whiney".