A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
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Composer: Marvin HamlischOrchestra: A Chorus Line Pit Orchestra
Performer: Baayork Lee
Performer: Renee Baughman
Performer: Carole Bishop
Performer: Wayne Cilento
Performer: Kay Cole
Performer: Pamela Blair
Performer: Ronald Dennis
Performer: Patricia Garland
Performer: Ron Kuhlman
Performer: Nancy Lane
Performer: Priscilla Lopez
Performer: Donna McKechnie
Performer: Cameron Mason
Performer: Don Percassi
Performer: Michel Stuart
Performer: Scott Allen
Performer: Chuck Cissel
Performer: Clive Clerk
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Music Label: Masterworks
Soundtracks:
- Opening: I Hope I Get It
- I Can Do That
- At The Ballet
- Sing!
- Montage Part 1: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love
- Montage Part 2: Mother
- Montage Part 3: Gimme The Ball
- Nothing
- Dance: Ten; Looks: Three
- The Music And The Mirror
- One
- What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line
- One (reprise) / Finale
Music reviews of A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
Music Review: quite possibly the DEFINITIVE Broadway musical...
Rating: 5 Stars
Michael Bennett's choreographic masterpiece...the blood, sweat and tears of dancers and their quest for success...the longest-running musical in Broadway history...
A CHORUS LINE is still the definitive 1970s Broadway musical. It set the stage alight for a record-breaking 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway history until "Cats" (and later again "Phantom of the Opera") knocked it from it's esteemed mantle.
Crafted from interviews with many real-life dancers (most of whom later formed the original cast), A CHORUS LINE is the story of a group of dancers trying out for parts in a new, never-named Broadway musical. There were no sets, except for some mirrors that flew on and off the stage during selected numbers; and the costumes were limited to dance leotards and warm-up gear. It must have seemed like Broadway was reinventing the wheel. Audiences were riveted.
Hearing the album again on this latest reissue (which is the exact same disc as the earlier 1998 Broadway Masterworks pressing but in a new, "eco-pack" cardboard sleeve), you can still taste the excitement from the very first notes of "I Hope I Get It". Donna McKechnie's peerless original Cassie seems to burst right through the speakers during her tour-de-force "Music and the Mirror"; Kelly Bishop's wry Sheila still marks her performance of "At the Ballet" as one of the most bittersweet moments in the score, and the entire troupe comes together for the chilling "What I Did for Love".
A watershed moment in musical theater history. This deserves a place in every cast album collection. My highest recommendation. [Masterworks Broadway 88697 49916 2]
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That indelible Marvin Hamlisch music helped make this 1975 Broadway smash the second-longest-running show of all time-and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and nine Tonys! Includes One; I Can Do That; Sing!; What I Did for Love; At the Ballet , and more.Michael Bennett's 1975 tale of Broadway's gypsies--the chorus dancers--resonated with audiences as few shows ever have, examining with both hilarity and heartbreak the grueling life of ordinary performers always auditioning for an opportunity to be members of a faceless chorus line. And along the way, it picked up the Pulitzer, the New York Drama Critics Award, and nine Tonys, and became the longest-running show in Broadway history. The original cast (eight of whom contributed their real-life memories to the show) included no major stars, but are unmatched on this cast recording of Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban's score, including Priscilla Lopez's poignant "Nothing," Donna McKechnie's yearning dance number "The Music and the Mirror," one of Broadway's most famous torch ballads in "What I Did for Love," and the ultimate high-kicking chorus number, "One." Fans of the show will welcome the 1998 remastered CD, which adds two and a half minutes to "Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love." While still incomplete, the montage now includes "Four-foot ten," "Little brat," and "The worst thing in school...." --David Horiuchi
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