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A Chorus Line Broadway "One" Finale photo on the line - musical flyer late 70's
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This 4" x 9" Broadway flyer is using the second marketing visual for this landmark hit musical. This is the first with a full color cast photo by Martha Swope.Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered around seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line.
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 by Michael Bennett and co-choreographed by Bennett and Bob Avian. 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 the revival of
Chicago
. It remains the seventh 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.
A Chorus Line
opened Off Broadway at The Public Theater on April 15, 1975.
At the time, the Public did not have enough money to finance the production so it borrowed .6 million to produce the show.
The show was directed by Bennett and co-choreographed by Bennett and Bob Avian. Advance word had created such a demand for tickets that the entire run sold out immediately. Producer Joseph Papp moved the production to Broadway and on July 25, 1975, it opened at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for 6,137 performances until April 28, 1990.