“Is there anything more fun than an opening night for ‘A Chorus Line?’ When the curtain rose at the Drury Lane Theatre on a stage packed with dancers, the place erupted,” writes Tribune critic Chris Jones.
Jorge Guerra, Ryan Watkinson, Christopher Kelly and cast of"A Chorus Line" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace.
Performers, especially those who are first and foremost dancers, invariably raise their game for this especially sacred text in Broadway circles, drawn from first-person testimony of so-called gypsies in the early 1970s, when show creator Michael Bennett coaxed Broadway ensemble members into a rehearsal studio on New York’s Lower East Side, turned on his tape recorder and asked them about their deepest fears and insecurities.
The cast is younger than you often see at this show, but that works just fine. I’d say that the company has different strengths: there are powerful singers and less secure vocalists, superb dancers and those consumed by getting through the choreography. Acting chops similarly vary. All of that is, in fact, as it should be.
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