" And they suddenly started dancing, doing "A Chorus Line.
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" Right: "Seeing 'A Chorus Line' as a teenager was life changing.
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Unbelievable. "A Chorus Line" was a very frustrating thing for me.
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They are a chorus line, arranged side by side like the Rockettes.
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"When 'A Chorus Line' opened, we were really it," Mr. Williams said.
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MICHAEL CORDRAY, Fairborn, Ohio I saw the original "Chorus Line" 17 times!
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A relatively unknown Catherine Zeta Jones performed in the chorus line in 1984.
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"We dare not say!" they said, kicking their heels in a chorus line.
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In the envelope were two tickets to "A Chorus Line," sixth row center.
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This production may lack a script, a song list and a chorus line.
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Unrelated, it's so great that Toby can quote both Ghostbusters and A Chorus Line.
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Teaching them the chorus line tradition, Ms. Lee taught them how to be feminine.
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He adds a quick verse too, but it's his chorus line that really stands out.
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Gordon Sondland, America's ambassador to the EU, is the newest member of this chorus line.
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And make no mistake, this "Chorus Line," which runs through Sunday evening, is religiously faithful.
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Spoofing the musical A Chorus Line, Close previewed what host James Corden dubbed A Clinton Line.
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A theater review in some editions last Sunday about "A Chorus Line" in West Hartford, Conn.
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Eventually, he daydreams a tap number for himself, backed by a chorus line of sea anemones.
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" — four words that were immortalized in a song by the same name in "A Chorus Line.
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The Extra host met Courtney, 36, while working together on A Chorus Line on Broadway in 2008.
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They're not just thrown out without any thought, Newman put great care into how that chorus line sounds.
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" Then she sang a few bars of "What I Did for Love," from the musical "A Chorus Line.
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Men are actually dancing with — gasp — other men, in a wrist-flicking, hip-wriggling, keister-twitching chorus line.
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"It's kind of a chorus line number with a costume element that ties everyone together," said Ms. Rebholz.
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I worried that, like Diana from "A Chorus Line" on the hill, I would not feel the motion.
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A chorus line comprised of humanoid cockroaches performing a dance presumably choreographed by a tiny cockroach Busby Berkeley.
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And Ms. d'Amboise's top hat from "A Chorus Line" sits among the family photos in the living room hutch.
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It's inconceivable that we'll ever again see a Democratic debate with a chorus line of men plus Hillary Clinton.
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" Onstage, he's been in "A Chorus Line" and, in Texas, in another run as El Gallo in "The Fantasticks.
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In rehearsals for "A Chorus Line," it can be difficult to tell where practice ends and the show begins.
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Just as often, the government's response to a chorus line of piracy scandals has ranged from underwhelming to nonexistent.
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Being in City Ballet's corps is not like being a member of a chorus line, or a backup singer.
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The décor includes Mets memorabilia, a poster for "A Chorus Line," and relics from Rushetzky's long career in journalism.
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" And get ready to have this chorus line stuck in your head: "It wasn't love, it was a perfect illusion.
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Tea Party and establishment candidates alike were happy to join the chorus line against big government tax and spend policy.
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Believe me, when a TV hit unites women, it's no fun to be Morales in "A Chorus Line," feeling nothing.
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"A Chorus Line," produced by Joseph Papp for the Public Theater, opened at the Shubert Theater on July 25, 19833.
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Anyone who knows the classic American musical "A Chorus Line" will be familiar with the conceptual shape of this show.
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Police chased rioters through Greenwich Village's streets while Bryan observed a "chorus line" form in front of officers and start chanting.
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"[Dina] was everyone's understudy, wearing leg warmers in the wings of Cats, A Chorus Line, and the Rockettes," reads the profile.
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The artist has been dancing since the age of 17, when she danced in a chorus line across the United States.
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This, in turn, means vases — so many vases there's a chorus line of them in a niche over the breakfast bar.
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Ms. McKechnie, a Tony winner for "A Chorus Line," is a selling point for the show, but she is wasted here.
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But "A Chorus Line" has been always a play that I love, and now I have it in my own theater.
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Packed into a corner of Stamford Bridge and spread over two tiers, they split into a percussion section and a chorus line.
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Like "A Chorus Line" (1975), which revealed the intimate back stories of auditioning Broadway dancers, it turned true confessions into song and dance.
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It ran for two years, always in the shadow of the smash hit A Chorus Line (which had opened around the same time).
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In compensation for the attention splitting that the original concept necessitated, "A Chorus Line" gradually reveals its focus on a central dancer, Cassie.
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"A Chorus Line" has never really been able to solve the Zach problem, perhaps because he is so clearly based on Bennett himself.
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While Mario Lopez, 43, was performing in "A Chorus Line" on Broadway in 2008, one of the dancers, Courtney Mazza, caught his eye.
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The prize is underwritten by the Kleban Foundation, established in 1988 in the will of Edward L. Kleban (the lyricist of "A Chorus Line").
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As Mr. Morrison sang "What I Did for Love," from "A Chorus Line," in tribute, the room vibrated with a collective sorrow and dismay.
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Sorry to break into song, but I got carried away once I saw the clue "A chorus line?" at 663A in Kyle Dolan's puzzle.
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A record-breaking musical about backstage life — it won nine Tonys and a Pulitzer Prize — "A Chorus Line" was a play within a play.
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Are you ready?" before linking arms, kicking up their heels chorus line style, and breaking into an impromptu rendition of "New York, New York.
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Not to be missed: the Bissell Kitty Halftime Show, starring Kitty Gaga in a rendition of "Puparazzi" with a chorus line of rescue kittens.
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Easton plays Peggy Marsh, one of the chorus line in the show, who takes over as the lead when the star actress breaks her ankle.
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" A picture caption with the obituary misstated the given name of an actress who won a Tony Award for her performance in "A Chorus Line.
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" Lopez's family had a connection to the theatre through his father's sister, Priscilla Lopez, who originated the role of Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line.
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As I hit the final punchline, not only did they laugh, but a chorus line of digital characters moonwalked, flexed, and swashbuckled at me in approval.
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Miranda looked like he was trying to hold back tears during her chilling a cappella version of "What I Did For Love" from A Chorus Line.
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Darlene Zoller's choreography offers ever-changing rotating crosses and many circles and squares, refreshing looks for "Chorus Line" and a smart choice for these particular dancers.
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And one of the show's funniest scenes unfolds outside the 181st Street stop on the A train, where Wulfric fantasizes a Rockettes-worthy cupcake chorus line.
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What starts off as a number that sounds like it could have been plucked straight from "A Chorus Line" takes a turn for the bizarrely tantalizing.
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The kicky opening sequence serves as an audition piece, a mini-"Chorus Line" acquainting us with the crowd from which these two gorgeous faces will emerge.
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"There's a lot of drilling, more than in regular musical theater," said Mr. Tam, who has been on Broadway in "A Chorus Line," among other shows.
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For months, Trump has led an anti-whistleblower Twitter chorus line that has been joined by his son Donald Trump, Jr. and numerous members of Congress.
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This Tyrannosaurus Rex — who could also be a human dancer in an inflatable costume, absolutely, sure — crushed his performance of the opening number from A Chorus Line.
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It's been a plotline in countless movies (A Chorus Line, Sixteen Candles, The To Do List); TV shows (Fleabag, Degrassi, iCarly), and books (Are You There God?
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Let me just get all my knee-jerk chorus-line reactions out of the way, before we get to the weird stuff: yes, this place is amazing.
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Pounding out the same steps night after night, as part of the smiling chorus line, I found myself feeling deflated, reluctant to do it again — and again.
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When she appeared at the annual Tap Extravaganzas honoring National Tap Dance Day, it was usually with the Dancing Ladies, her own chorus line of young women.
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Even at the end of the performance — after Nicki Minaj's verse — both women joined a chorus line with all of the dancers for a little bump and grind.
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DAVID VELEZ, New York I saw the original production of "A Chorus Line" three times, leaning on the Shubert Theater red velvet back railing opening week in 1975.
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It's here, in the story of the relationship between Zach (Tony Yazbeck) and Cassie (Robyn Hurder), that "A Chorus Line" most shows its age and its underlying confusions.
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But the cast members who make up this show's central chorus line, all over 60, still do what they once did with grace and style, if less athleticism.
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The Oscar Hunt The first Oscars of the new millennium shocked with crime, scandal and Robin Williams dancing in a "South Park" chorus line It started with hysteria.
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" He cradled an accordion, as did Josh Groban in "The Great Comet," and summoned a bizarre chorus line featuring the Rockettes and the cast of "Come From Away.
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The Kleban Foundation was established in 1988 in the will of Edward Kleban, a composer and lyricist who won a Tony and a Pulitzer for "A Chorus Line."
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As Novak Djokovic pursues a third United States Open title, he finds himself in the odd position of issuing get-well messages to a chorus line of incapacitated opponents.
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He started out in the casting department there — he worked on "A Chorus Line" — and went on to direct Thomas Babe's "Rebel Women" and three plays by Israel Horovitz.
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It turns out that Sweet, a powerful demon whose presence causes humans around him to act like they are a part of a chorus line, has come to town.
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The neon sign of Bal Tic Tac—with a chorus line of jiving and jerking figures—was swiftly removed by city authorities for reasons of safety and aesthetic propriety.
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No, Carpenter had his hands on him most mornings and knew he was perfectly engineered — straight legged as a chorus line of Rockettes, better balanced than an aerial artist.
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"When the cops came down Christopher Street, a whole bunch of boys ran back around on Gay Street, and came out in a chorus line, kicking," said Mr. White.
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Musical theatre has always been an outlet for trenchant social commentary; every decade from the genre's inception has given us a Showboat, a Chorus Line, a Next to Normal.
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The 36th annual benefit, which in previous years featured Carolina Herrera in a tango dance and Bob Mackie in the chorus line, has morphed into a glacially paced awards dinner.
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The awards, celebrating their 40th anniversary, wrapped up with past winners performing "What I did For Love" from "A Chorus Line", which won best new musical at the 1976 ceremony.
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It's even enlisting the likes of Matthew Broderick and Maya Rudolph to bring the spirit of the film — and quite possibly a chorus line of dancing leg lamps — to life.
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You'll find traces of "A Chorus Line" near the outset, not to mention the sort of cringe-making reality TV shows that seem to have turned everything into a competition.
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With the legacy of "A Chorus Line," they are very meticulous with the changes, but we managed to convince them, and I think we've got a very, very interesting performance.
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I once went on YouTube to look up a video of Kelly Bishop from the original cast of "A Chorus Line" and when I looked up I had turned 80.
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But it also has some appeal among younger song-and-dance fans who want to hear Broadway tunes from before "Cats" or "A Chorus Line" that are rarely performed anymore.
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And in that span of time, body positivity has become a new cultural chorus line, the clearest response for a lot of women who have spent generations hating how they look.
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You'd slap on a bit of the brand's red pigment as blush, then top it off with setting powder before busting a move in your school's production of A Chorus Line.
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"The Rage" keeps the "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" chorus line ("Despite all my rage / I am still just a rat in a cage"), though it's warped to sound even more pained.
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A classically trained ballerina stranded in a Vegas chorus line, she winds up — through a first-episode twist I won't spoil — alone and jobless in the small town of Paradise, Calif.
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When "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway in 1975 — having step-ball-changed its way uptown from the New York Shakespeare Festival — it was the livingest thing in a dead zone.
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Now "A Chorus Line" is 43, well past the age at which the anonymous ensemble dancers it honors would have retired, their bodies or bank accounts unable to hack it anymore.
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The first time I went to New York, in 1984, "A Chorus Line" was still at the Shubert, but the tickets were unbelievably expensive for me, so I couldn't see it.
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Glenn Close as Hillary Clinton Spoofing the musical A Chorus Line at the 2016 Tony Awards, Glenn Close stepped into Hillary Clinton's pantsuit for a brief turn as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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You can roam the ocean as a swarm of sardines, but you can also assemble soldiers out of the DNA collected from fallen enemies, weaponizing the chorus line from The Little Mermaid.
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Less obvious is his assertion that "A Chorus Line" in 1975 made "fragmentary storytelling" acceptable and — as embodied by the influential Michael Bennett — shifted creative control from the author to the director.
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When they all met — turning slowly in a single-file line or sitting cross-legged atop the plaza's red steps — their synchronous moves recalled the satisfying unison of a Broadway chorus line.
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Of the other four, one was crafted with the help of a revolutionary development and workshopping process (A Chorus Line, 1976, which directly cited a series of interviews with Broadway chorus dancers).
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But not all was booming: chorus-line dancers in Times Square, New York's "densest pleasure ganglion," were poorly paid; suffragists (to whom Macy's marketed matching bonnets and hatpins for demonstrations) faced intransigent opposition.
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But never mind the story; this is a vaudeville hodgepodge at heart, with a little bit of everything thrown in: chorus line numbers, ballets, love songs, a harp solo for you-know-who.
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It's hard to imagine a chorus line of dinosaurs — those limbs weren't engineered for Rockettes-style kicking — but just about anything is possible in the hands of the principals behind Hudson Vagabond Puppets.
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Rainey separated from her husband in 1916 and began touring with her own show, Madam Gertrude Ma Rainey and Her Georgia Smart Set, which included a chorus line of male and female dancers.
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After talking about how delighted and honored he was, he explained that he had to get on a plane right away to leave for Spain, where he's performing onstage in A Chorus Line.
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Arts | Connecticut The most indelible image of "A Chorus Line," the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1975 musical conceived by Michael Bennett, is a horizontal line of 17 hopeful dancers trying out for a Broadway show.
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" An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary, provided by The Associated Press, misstated the given name of an actress who won a Tony Award for her performance in "A Chorus Line.
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Otherwise, the charms of this "Shoes" are of a hazy strain, despite its detours into antic sequences involving bird watchers, Texas cowboys (and a chorus line of winsome cows) and the Rutgers football team.
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The director Neil Armfield's version updates the action to a dreamlike, modern setting: A chorus line wearing Busby Berkeley-style outfits appears in one scene; and background singers in midcentury beach outfits appear in another.
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Between the two productions I have seen "A Chorus Line" more than 50 times in N.Y.C. This does not take into account touring productions and the (disastrous) movie which I could only sit through once.
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In "Emeralds," there are four (two couples), and in "Rubies" three, a main couple and a leggy Amazon who peels away from the chorus line and vamps her way through the rest of the ballet.
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The musical numbers (the lyrics are by Peter Mills, the music by Stephen Weiner) propel things along nicely, making good use of a chorus line of dancing bus drivers/sewer workers (choreographed by Joshua Bergasse).
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But a chorus line of six stout relievers saved the day for the Indians, who beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-2, and took a three-games-to-none lead in the best-of-seven series.
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She also sang and moved in a big number ("The Music and the Mirror") from "A Chorus Line": her singing was undistinguished, her dancing — in heeled shoes — a brilliant but synthetic display of Broadway-ballet style.
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But their titles downplay their relationship to "A Chorus Line": They have been with the show since its conception, before it became the "Hamilton" of 1975 and, for a time, the longest-running musical on Broadway.
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Last week, Banderas called me from his hometown, Málaga, where he has spent months directing and starring in a Spanish-language production of "A Chorus Line" that he hopes to bring to New York next summer.
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A chorus line of Fed officials singing of the need for higher rates has seen the implied probability of a move this month shoot to 21 percent, from just 3.50 percent at the start of the week.
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Suzanne Mitchell, who replaced a squad of high school bobby-soxers with a scantily clad chorus line that became a choreographed global brand called the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, died on Tuesday at her home in Fredericksburg, Tex.
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And then there were the still-under-discussion ideas: the "Chorus Line" sequel, with Mr. Cosson and Mr. Pinkleton, as well as a modern adaptation of "The Magic Flute," for the Public Theater and the Metropolitan Opera.
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The Public Theater, which famously lived for years off the profits from transferring "A Chorus Line" to Broadway, gets 5 percent of the profits and 1 percent of the adjusted gross — currently totaling about $2.5 million a year.
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The Public Theater, which famously lived for years off the profits from transferring "A Chorus Line" to Broadway, gets 234 percent of the profits and 22015 percent of the adjusted gross — currently totaling about $2.5 million a year.
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He survived flops — "The Mooney Shapiro Songbook," a one-performance bomb in 1981 — and moments of intense gladness, like the comedy "Legends" by "Chorus Line" author James Kirkwood starring two real-life theater legends, Mary Martin and Carol Channing.
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Ms. McNeely said she was inspired by the film "A Chorus Line" (even though the look is the 1980s, she loves its camerawork) and Bob Fosse's "The Rich Man's Frug" from "Sweet Charity" (for its big group and patterns).
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His dance troupe there included Donna McKechnie, who would win the 1976 Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her role in "A Chorus Line," and Michael Bennett, who won a Tony for choreographing the same show.
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Lindy West Back in the before-times, when all the polls predicted a landslide Hillary Clinton victory and establishment Republicans were pivoting away from Donald Trump like a chorus line, I had a postelection cautionary column in the hopper.
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In his will, Edward Kleban, the Tony Award-winning lyricist of "A Chorus Line," made provisions to underwrite two cash prizes for musical theater writers whose work shows great potential: one to a lyricist and one to a librettist.
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Fans also think the chorus line — "I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to / When I'm lying close to someone else" — could be a reference to The Weeknd, 28, whom she dated for 10 months before they split last October.
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So when you're casting an ensemble, are you thinking about whether you want people whose personality and appearances will be distinctive like that, or are you going for more of the Chorus Line, "One Singular Sensation" kind of an idea?
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You eventually get used to such meta moments in the rehearsal room for "A Chorus Line," the ultimate backstage musical, which returns this week at New York City Center as its annual gala production, with seven performances Wednesday through Sunday.
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Vitrines at the library contain collaged homages to a chorus line of showbiz muses like Liliane Montevecchi ("the most remarkable person," said Mr. Knight, a connoisseur of the appreciative adjective), Ann Miller ("like a steam engine") and Dame Edna ("extraordinary").
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But as directed by Rupert Goold with a savvy flashiness that mixes chorus-line musical segues and "Front Page" adrenaline, this production manages to be both an entertaining epitaph for a lost age and a chilling prophecy of days to come.
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But Sutton Foster, the star of the stealth hit sitcom "Younger," is having her breakout moment as a spunky young heroine on the rise — some 40 years after she was plucked from chorus-line obscurity for an award-winning turn on Broadway.
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Scene City 11 Photos View Slide Show ' This Sunday, the Tony Awards will honor the best of Broadway and likely deliver many of the biggest prizes to "Hamilton," the Public Theater's biggest hit since "A Chorus Line" had its debut in 103.
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She was a famous Broadway dancer and actress from Culver City, California, who had worked her way up from the chorus line to the lead; with her corona of red curls and an overdose of natural comedic timing, she was an irrepressible talent.
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The comedian appeared onstage with duct tape over his mouth, ripped it off, screamed, "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" and proceeded to dance and sing with a flock of characters, including a high-kicking chorus line of women dressed as Canadian Mounties.
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Sammy Williams, who won a Tony Award in his Broadway acting debut for his wrenching monologue as Paul, the tormented young gay man and aspiring dancer seeking artistic validation, in the original production of "A Chorus Line," died on Saturday in North Hollywood, Calif.
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WARSAW — Andrzej Duda was a relatively obscure member of the right-wing Law and Justice party when the leader of the party and the most powerful man in the country plucked him from the chorus line to become its candidate for president in 2015.
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Banderas is a charming campaigner and any voter who meets the man can't help but root for him; still, he won't be around much to shake hands, as he's been busy directing and starring in a revival of "A Chorus Line" in Málaga, Spain.
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Now, that may sound a bit patriotic, and perhaps Seoul (1988) or Barcelona (1992) is the true benchmark, but how could you discount an event that featured a musical mashup of Michael Jackson's "Beat It," Irene Cara's "Fame," and "One" from A Chorus Line?
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Baayork Lee, an actress, choreographer and director best known as a member of the original cast of "A Chorus Line," will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, which honors volunteerism, in recognition of her work with the with the National Asian Artists Project, which she founded.
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The production, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, marks the first time the Public, which as the birthplace of "A Chorus Line" and "Hamilton" is arguably the nation's most successful nonprofit theater, will work with Disney, which is among the world's most successful entertainment companies.
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Mr. Twist proposed the use of "humanettes," human-puppet hybrids in which the performers' heads are visible above the puppets' bodies; as a result, the Oompa-Loompas now appear more as a chorus line than an indentured work force, and the audience seems to appreciate the zaniness.
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Since inside of the CAL will be only a fraction above absolute zero, or 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, atoms inside the laboratory will be so low-energy that they will begin to move in unison and take on wave-like properties, "like dancers in a chorus line," according to Sengupta.
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"Hamilton" is a help — the theater gets 5 percent of the profits and 1 percent of the adjusted gross from the production — but not as much as "A Chorus Line" was years ago, and Mr. Eustis is determined that the Public not become dependent on a single show.
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The start is like a dull silent movie or unfunny Three Stooges, but once the performers start manipulating chairs into a chorus line, the work takes off, and in a section of sliding in socks, a new and beautiful kind of motion is introduced into the Pilobolan universe.
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In a clandestine confab, artists from the Public Theater and the Donmar Warehouse on Saturday met in the Lower Manhattan auditorium where "A Chorus Line" and "Hamilton" began so the actor Daniel Radcliffe (in the flesh) and the fugitive Edward J. Snowden (by video from Moscow) could run lines of Shakespeare.
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After graduating from the University of Cincinnati — where he studied dance with the musical theatre program — Cottes racked up a slew of touring gigs (High School Musical, A Chorus Line, Rock of Ages) and some roles on Broadway too (like the 2011 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).
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" On a recent visit to Stratford, I saw five Shakespeare plays; a superlative "All My Sons" featuring intriguing new undercurrents supplied by the biracial casting; the North American premiere of the stage version of "Shakespeare in Love," an ebullient crowd-pleaser; and two musicals, "A Little Night Music" and "A Chorus Line.
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Her mother, a musical theater performer, teaches musical theater at Coupé Theater Studio in Nanuet, N.Y. She has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including as the alternate for Evita Perón in "Evita" in 21979, a solo performer in "Sophisticated Ladies" in 883, and as Bebe Benzenheimer in "A Chorus Line" in 288.
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Her mother, a musical theater performer, teaches musical theater at Coupé Theater Studio in Nanuet, N.Y. She has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including as the alternate for Evita Perón in "Evita" in 1979, a solo performer in "Sophisticated Ladies" in 1981, and as Bebe Benzenheimer in "A Chorus Line" in 1978.
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The three Chers will be joined by Tony nominee Jarrod Spector (Beautiful, Jersey Boys) as Sonny Bono, Michael Berresse (Kiss Me, Kate; A Chorus Line) as Bob Mackie, Michael Campayno (Wicked) as Rob Camilletti, Matthew Hydzik (It Shoulda Been You, Side Show) as Gregg Allman, and Tony nominee Emily Skinner (Prince of Broadway, Side Show) as Georgia Holt.
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I want to continue to have that experience that I saw "A Chorus Line" 28 times, not on VR. I wanted that tradition to continue where you have that collective live experience, where the turntable might stop, or just the experience that real actors are acting on their guts and instincts right in front of you.
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The issue has a long and tortured history in theater, since the days of "A Chorus Line," when the dancers involved in that show's creation famously sold the rights to their life stories for $1 each, but about a year later reached an agreement with the director/choreographer that allowed them some share of the show's financial success.
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His departure, which the company announced on Monday, is not entirely surprising: He has spent much of the last three years moving between City Ballet and the "American in Paris" productions in New York and London, as well as taking part in "A Chorus Line" at the Hollywood Bowl and "Oklahoma!" at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Not only do I wash my face with a cleanser, but I remove my makeup with a wipe, then follow up with a chorus line of lotions and potions to keep my skin looking A+. When I woke up the next morning and realized she was still wearing her makeup from the night before, I understood why she had been laughing.
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She describes how it might have felt for a young girl to lose her virginity to a handsome man in a shabby boarding house; recreates the sounds and smells of a summer night on the roof of a Harlem tenement; brings to life the romance of the chorus line and the thrill of teenagers roaming the streets with their friends.
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Neither do they wear red pants with suspenders or dance all sexy-like in front of a miniature chorus line of human hoofers dressed up like cockroaches — all in competition to be selected for ascension to heaven (called the Heaviside layer here), where, presumedly, the winner of the contest, called the Jellicle Ball, will be reincarnated in the next of nine lives.
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Even longtime observers who have seen this kind of acclaim for a show before -- the ones who remember the hype, the ticket frenzies and the deluge of awards that accompanied "Hair" in 1968, "A Chorus Line" in 1975, "Rent" in 1996, "The Producers" in 2001 and "The Book of Mormon" in 2011 -- have been awed by the way "Hamilton" has become a blockbuster cultural touchstone.
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The Tony Awards previously announced two other honorary prizes: Baayork Lee, an actress, choreographer and director who founded the National Asian Artists Project and is best known as a member of the original cast of "A Chorus Line," will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, which recognizes volunteerism, while two longtime general managers, Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser, will receive Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater.
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Um... then I wrote a play, then I was in a lot of plays, then I started going to the theater when I was 13 at the Fisher Theater in Detroit and saw virtually every single national tour that came in beginning with "Shenandoah," and then very quickly after "Pippen" and then "A Chorus Line" and then "Annie" and then "The Magic Show" and then "Sugar Babies" and on and on.
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Seven dancers — men and women alike dressed in black sports bras and hyper-color Lycra tights, later donning T-shirts printed with their own faces — perform movements in that pastiche way McNamara has become known for; they form tableaux, they line up like a blasé chorus line, they move in canon, they prance, they body-roll, they make staccato angular arm gesticulations, they smack their hips with their fists like video clip backup dancers, and they take a break to drink water from water bottles in a severely formalized manner.
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In particular, I liked the stacks of 10 in the NW and SE. JEDI MASTER went in right away, and I also like ALOHA STATE, CHORUS LINE, DO ME A FAVOR, SHALLOW END and, best of all, the debut of MIRACLE MAX, a fabulous character played by Billy Crystal in "The Princess Bride": Beyond the stacks, there are many delicious words and phrases in this grid: JURASSIC, I'M GAME, ELIXIR, I HATE IT, ANACONDA, LOGJAM, HANGOVER, CASE LAW, MAKE DO, MOREL and SNERD, just for the sound if it.
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