Could A Chorus Line Work As A Play?

i dunno... i think it could work and be just as effective but... i mean, c'mon... who DOESN'T love the Montage!?

plus- the music adds a whole different demension and i think the play would suffer without it

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Updated On: 10/14/05 at 07:18 PM

Not really I don't think because....there wouldn't be any Chorus Line....

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but than again what's the point of a play about CHORUS MEMBERS without music!?

so... i'm divided. one side tells me, YES, it could work but the other side punches the one side that says yes and tells it to shut its little liberal mouth.

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So, essentially, it would just be a line of seventeen people stepping forward, telling a story, and stepping back?

I almost fell asleep just typing that sentence.

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Well, if there's no music, why call it "A Chorus Line"?. Call it "The Ensemble" and it can be about supporting actors. My problem in dropping the music is you end up having a show about musical performers but with no music you also have no dancing and do you now put the lyrics,which were so personal,into the narrative? Now "Gypsy" if expanded, I wouldn't mind seeing as a straight play. For Louise's strip all you'd need is a drummer.

A Chorus Line as a play... Hmmm... I only saw the movie, but I think that if it was a straight play, it would be really boring.

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I want to see "The Music and the Mirror" performed without music.

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See I really couldn't
Talk
I could never really Talk
What I couldn't do was... TALK!!!

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Ummmmmm..........hell no, its called A C H O R U S lineand its about dance. I understand that idea, but without the dance, id be friggin lame.

I think a play about actors at a single audition MIGHT work, if it was extremely well-written and conceived... but I couldn't see it be a literal, non-musical adaptation of A CHORUS LINE.

If you're trying out for a play, you don't stand in a room, in a group, where everyone reads their monologues at once, and a director picks the 8 or so members of the company in the end. It would have to be an entirely different experience. Then again, seeing actors file in, one by one, reading monologues and talking about themselves would very likely feel disjointed and uneven. There would be no shared connection on stage, only off.

It would be a challenge.

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I saw a Summer camp version of A Chorus Line where they obviously took out a lot of the language, sexual references, etc. meaning they edited literally half the show. And it worked.

Yes...A Chorus Line could work as a play with careful editing. If you think about it, it was already a play before it even got the musical treatment. It's a series of stories and interviews. The music in the show was just additional.

I don't think they could. The whole purpose of a chorus line is for the dancers to express themselves and their lives passionatley by song. Do you think "at the ballet" would be any good without song?

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