A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Saw it over the weekend in Nashville. Yes, there are Splatter Seats. (Though the splatter was pretty underwhelming; we were only one row behind the splatter section and due to bad lighting, etc. you could barely see what was being splattered.)
A pretty fun show in parts, but too long for sure... Should be a 100-min, no intermission show. Not a full 2-act show that runs well over two hours total. Energetic but uneven cast with a somewhat "blah" lead.
When the tour started here in Chicago (the cast is filled with many Chicago actors, as well), it got pretty badly panned by many critics here, including the Sun Times and Trib:
I saw the tour with twinbelters and despite having a friend in the cast, I still LOVED IT! The Chicago critics hated it, but I have found Chris Jones to be all over the map and Hedy Weiss is a complete whack job. Both of their reviews sound as if they 1) are not actually familiar with the source material, which has everything to do with the style of the show and 2) felt that the show was somehow "beneath" the level of shows that should be preforming in that theatre.
I thought it was silly, gory, hilarious fun. Yes, there is a splatter zone and the audience seemed to be having a fantastic time.
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