A Chorus Line Movie on Blu Ray- Page 5

Posted: 8/14/14 at 2:00pm

or in Carrie!

[Timmer]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 6:46pm

I love "A Chorus Line" and "What I Did for Love" is one of my favorite songs. But the "Chorus Line" movie is pretty bad.

If you want to do a musical remake, here is a candidate just begging to be done.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 6:50pm

^Where was Milos Forman when they needed him in the 80's?!

A remake would be a great welcome, using Michael Bennett's original concept for a film version of A CHORUS LINE that was never used.

[BobbyBubbi]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 7:57pm

This thread has been a pleasure to read. It's all over the place! =)

A Chorus Line was the first professional show I ever saw (I believe it was a non equity tour in the early 90s). It had a profound effect on me.

Awhile after seeming it onstage, I came across the film (not even knowing there was a film version) at the video rental store (back when they still had those). Even as a kid, I remember having a strong negative response to the film, after falling in love with the script, and the original cast album.

The cheesy cassio keyboard, synthesized orchestrations, were probably the biggest offense to me.

I guess I just have a lot of questions. I've only seen the movie once and then I hate watched it when I was older for like 15 minutes when it was on TV, before I couldn't watch it anymore and changed the channel.

Why did Hamlisch and the other creatives allow for so many changes? To make it more cinematic? To try and tone down some of the more "adult" themes for a better MPAA rating?

I got a chuckle out of this- Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times stated, "The result may not please purists who want a film record of what they saw on stage, but this is one of the most intelligent and compelling movie musicals in a long time - and the most grown up, since it isn't limited, as so many contemporary musicals are, to the celebration of the survival qualities of geriatric actresses."[4]

Lastly, I when I saw the Broadway Revival, I felt a little let down. Did anyone else feel this way? I felt like I was watching a caricature of the original source material, it also felt dated and the orchestrations were scaled down. Am I wrong?

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 8:57pm

^The postive reviews for A CHORUS LINE make me laugh and then I watch the film and laugh my butt off for how bad it is.