“Michael Bennett and a bunch of his friends who were dancers and artists got together and pressed record on a tape recorder and started talking about the business and what it’s like being in this business,” Risch said.
Those risks and rewards are authentic because they’re inspired by real life. “It’s all about the sacrifice and stakes and everything it takes to get into a Broadway show the sacrifices that artists make for their art and sometimes it can be at a high cost.” “It is the process of casting a new Broadway show,” Risch said. and Nicholas Dante, the story follows theater director Zach (Risch), who auditions 17 dancers for his chorus line. They were like, ‘No one’s ever talked about the lives of us and what we go through.’ … Combined with the music and choreography, it was a perfect storm of things that became instantly iconic.”įeaturing a book by James Kirkwood Jr.
“ Michael and his friends wanted to create something new and exciting. “It was just one of those special things that came about in the time when musicals were crashing on Broadway and attendance was at an all-time low,” actor Matthew Risch told WTOP. This month, “A Chorus Line” kicks into Signature Theatre through Jan. It won nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1976, becoming the longest-running show in Broadway history … until it was surpassed by “Cats” in 1997.
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