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March 18, 1990 | DAVID J. FOX
Whenever an ensemble of players so connects with audiences the way "A Chorus Line's" performers did in 1975, there is a bond created that never seems to loosen. They came onto the scene unexpectedly, a group of unknown Broadway gypsies whose on-stage characters seemed to represent the aspirations and cynicism of the era.
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July 31, 1997 | SUSAN KING, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Marvin Hamlisch promises to light up the sky in a unique way this weekend at the Hollywood Bowl. The composer, who has won three Oscars, four Grammys, two Emmys, a Tony, three Golden Globes and the Pulitzer Prize, is conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane in a concert of movie music and musicals.
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April 30, 1990 | DAVID D'ARCY
It may have been the last night of Broadway's longest-running show, but the atmosphere was far from funereal. As the sun went down, the Shubert Theater's marquee for "A Chorus Line" went on turning the theater once again into the show business landmark it had been for the last 15 years. This time there was a new feature, the lyrics to the musical's most popular tune.
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March 18, 1990 | MARTIN GOTTFRIED, Martin Gottfried's biography of Bob Fosse, "All His Jazz," will be published by Bantam Books next fall, to be followed by "More Broadway Musicals," which will be published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. in 1991. and
Seldom has the Inevitable come with such surprise. After a record 15 years on Broadway, "A Chorus Line" is closing on March 31. "The End of the Line" was the headline of its last advertisement. Well, there are worse disasters, and 15 years "isn't bad" for a Broadway show. . . . But of course "A Chorus Line" isn't just a Broadway show. Being about a mythical kind of musical, it became a myth itself.
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July 9, 1990 | STEPHEN ROTHMAN, Rothman is a free - lance theater and TV director who served as founder and artistic director of the revitalized Pasadena Playhouse for seven years. He is co-producer of "A Chorus Line" at the Las Palmas Theatre
The main reason for mounting a new production of "A Chorus Line" in Los Angeles was to present it in a smaller-than-usual theater--on more of the intimate scale that its creator Michael Bennett originally envisioned. But after only eight weeks, the show, which opened to many rave reviews, is set to close on Sunday. As the co-producer of this production, it's been a sad lesson in Big Squeeze economics of mid-size theater today.
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January 1, 2000 | M. DION THOMPSON, BALTIMORE SUN
In an exercise sure to start arguments among music lovers, National Public Radio has created its list of the 100 most important American musical works of the century. The list started with 300 songs suggested by a group of producers, artists and experts familiar to NPR. In mid-October, NPR allowed the public to vote on the selection. More than 13,000 listeners cast their votes online and through the mail. A panel of 15 musicians considered the same 300 songs.