singers who recorded one from the chorus line

Yesterday's events were part celebration, part reunion and part theatrical history. In its eight years on Broadway, ''A Chorus Line'' has played to more than 14 million people and grossed more than $75 million. ''A Chorus Line'' won a Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and nine Tony Awards, including those for best play, best direction, best choreography and the performances by Donna McKechnie, Sammy Williams and Kelly Bishop. The American hostages in Iran chose to see ''A Chorus Line'' together after the New York parade celebrating their release in 1981. A total of five companies ultimately toured the United States, Canada and Europe. 25, 1975, after a delay due to a musicians' strike. It began previews on Broadway on July 25, 1975, and officially opened on Oct. Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival opened ''A Chorus Line'' at The Public Theater on April 16, 1975, to enthusiastic reviews. The play had a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and choreography by Mr. Bennett, the play's director, built ''A Chorus Line'' from the dancers' stories of auditioning for largely anonymous roles, of their need for work and their love of dance. It was almost 10 years to the day, said Michael Bennett, since he began developing the musical by interviewing itinerant dancers over coffee and sandwiches from a delicatessen. There, after the milestone performance, the cast and crew and about 2,500 guests from theatrical, political and business circles celebrated with a supper that included 30 pounds of caviar and 35 cases of champagne. The show's moment of triumph arrived at 12:45 A.M., when all 332 dancers flooded the stage of the Shubert Theater for the finale, a song called ''One.'' A sustained standing ovation resounded, as it had at the conclusion of a black-tie dress rehearsal in the afternoon.Īll of the applause came amid 15 hours of show-business spectacle, in which the entire Booth Theater served as an enormous dressing room and Shubert Alley was covered with a tent and transformed into an outdoor restaurant.

With its 3,389th performance, ''A Chorus Line'' surpassed the mark held by ''Grease.'' Many theater experts say that ''A Chorus Line,'' more than setting a performance record, altered the direction of American musical theater with its use of a realistic book and ensemble rather than individual acting.

From the four continents to which they had dispersed, from stardom and from unemployment lines, 332 dancers who once appeared in ''A Chorus Line'' gathered last night to share in the performance that made the musical the longest-running show in the history of Broadway.

Singers who recorded one from the chorus line