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Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#25re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/20/08 at 10:59pm
"There is an audition specifically for Zach so the role is available."
They ARE casting for the tour, so that audition doesn't mean it is specifically for Broadway.
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#26re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/20/08 at 11:01pm
A dollar they'll have him play the gay one.
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#27re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:06ami'm having a flashback to jai rodriguez saying in an interview that he was offered a chance to replace hugh jackman in boy from oz. in other words, just because a performer throws somethiung out there doesn't make it entirely true. i'd rather see mario lopez tackle billy flynn.
#28re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:16amHe is a good dancer, and it's not like the cast of ACL are the greatest singers in the world, I think he could tackle it if he worked his backside off.
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#29re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:54amIt just amazes me that so many people think Mario would be able to handle the VERY specific choreography in ACL. Learning a couple of ballroom dances doesn't come close to the YEARS of training that are needed to perform ACL.
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#30re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 10:16amMariposa, that made my day.
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#31re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 10:27amI wouldn't be as worried about whether he could do the part (whatever it is), as I would be about him pulling focus. It's such an ensemble piece of equals, I think it would be just be distracting having a "celebrity" in the line. Maybe it would work for Zach, but none of the others.
#32re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:58pmCelebrities have never been in A Chorus Line and it'll never happen. Unless you include Bebe Neuwirth, but she did ACL before she got famous. The only "star" that could tackle ACL is Paige Davis who did Val in an Austin production.
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#33re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 1:02pmHey ACL.... I saw that ACL Austin production in Sept. 2000. from RC in Austin, Texas
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#34re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 1:05pmHow was is it??? Was Paige good as Val??? I've only seen brief clips online.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
MiniMenzel08
Understudy Joined: 1/16/08
#35re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 1:08pm
No!
he's a good dancer and everything....but....no!
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Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#36re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 1:14pm
I say no too. The show is the star itself. This show should make people stars not the other way around. If they do go about casting him, then they should make him Al and have the song change were he is the one that can't sing and Kristine the one that sing...but that will just not make sense...but could work...
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#37re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 1:52pm
I'm fairly sure Mario has studied dance in the past. I know that before he landed the role on Saved By the Bell, he was a dancer.
Whatever, he's gorgeous either way. I say bring on the spandex.
#38re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 2:25pm
"Celebrities have never been in A Chorus Line and it'll never happen"
...Alisan Porter??
Sure, she isn't a Mario Lopez. But you know, she is is semi-famous.
#40re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 2:37pm
Alisan Porter is semi-famous? From what?
If anything, he should be Larry.
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#41re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 3:07pm
Alison was the little girl in Curly Sue, among other films.
Also, Deidre Goodwin was in the movie Chicago as a dancer in Cell Block Tango.
#42re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 3:13pm
Also, Deidre Goodwin was in the movie Chicago as a dancer in Cell Block Tango.
She worked on Broadway before that, I think.
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#43re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 3:30pm
Deidre Goodwin's been working on Broadway BEFORE the film-version of CHICAGO came out. She was in the original casts of the recent revivals of: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW and THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE.
In fact, she was a resident Velma Kelly fill-in (opposite resident Roxie Hart fill-in Belle Calaway) for some time in the Broadway revival of CHICAGO and all this BEFORE she did the film-version of CHICAGO.
Here she is along with Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones and Belle Calaway: 
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#44re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 4:08pmI remember an interview where Elizabeth Berkley mentioned doing a production of Gypsy with Mario Lopez before they were cast in SAVED BY THE BELL.
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#45re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 4:26pmI can't see him as Paul. Can he handle a 10 minute monologue anyway? Zach has lots of lines, too. I'm sure Larry would be fine for him, if he can dance.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#46re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 4:28pm
I'm fairly sure Mario has studied dance in the past. I know that before he landed the role on Saved By the Bell, he was a dancer.
Mario is a FANTASTIC dancer.
I used to be in his dance class!
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#47re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 1/21/08 at 4:36pm
Oh, I'm sure Karina can vouch for his dancing prowess. 
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#48re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:35am
Hmmm. Heard all this before back in January.
#49re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 3/5/08 at 11:18amI think he'll be fine. I don't like Karina though.
#50re: Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?
Posted: 3/5/08 at 3:00pmAm I the only one who thinks that he will surprise everyone and be really good? I'm excited to see him.
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