![]() ![]() Novelist James Kirkwood and former dancer Nicholas Dante created the book, Edward Kleban wrote the lyrics, with the occasional uncredited editing by playwright Neil Simon. The results were so striking that he decided to create a musical around the experience of auditioning, which arouses so many emotions, hopes, and fears, and while unique in its form, and strikes a chord in anyone who has gone on a dreamt-for date or applied for a job. The show was conceived by Michael Bennett, a director and choreographer who decided in 1974 to document the lives and struggles of these gypsies by interviewing them on videotape. There have been many musicals about performers, but A Chorus Line was among the first to look at the lives of the "gypsies," the various chorus members, and dancers who appear in the audition lines for each show. ![]()
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