A Chorus Line
| A Chorus Line | |
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Original Broadway windowcard
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| Music | Marvin Hamlisch |
| Lyrics | Edward Kleban |
| Book |
James Kirkwood, Jr. Nicholas Dante |
| Productions | 1975 Off Broadway 1975 Broadway 1976 West End 1976 Toronto 1977 Sydney 1978 Mexico 1979 1980 Buenos Aires 1982 São Paulo 1984 Barcelona 1985 film 1987 Vienna 1989 México 2006 San Francisco 2006 Broadway Revival 2006 San Juan 2007 Belgrade 2008 US Tour 2010 Mexico 2010 US Tour 2010 Seoul 2012 Australian tour 2012 Singapore 2013 West End revival 2014 Oslo 2016 Hollywood Bowl 2016 Stratford 2016 Netherlands Tour 2016 Santiago |
| Awards |
Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Book Tony Award for Best Score 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Olivier Award for Best Musical |
A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante. Centred on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, the musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for a musical. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers.
Following several workshops and an Off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25, 1975, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. An unprecedented box office and critical hit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in 1997, and the longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the US, until surpassed in 2011 by Chicago. It remains the sixth longest-running Broadway show ever. A Chorus Line's success has spawned many successful productions worldwide. It began a lengthy run in the West End in 1976 and was revived on Broadway in 2006, and in the West End in 2013.
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