A Chorus Line Movie on Blu Ray- Page 3

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 4:34pm

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 6:00pm

Screw the Hair movie. Great choreography, great singing of the score, not the show I love.

I've said my piece.

SO FRIGGIN' WHAT!

[evic]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 7:04pm

Maybe the release of A Chorus Line will inspire Alyson Reed to lose the 100 lbs. she gained. I went to the premiere at Radio City Music Hall and when the movie ended there was a deafening silence and you knew that everyone was thinking "WTF did I just see? Gregg had the most dazzling smile and was a sweet man. RIP. That spoof from Saunders and French was hysterical.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 7:37pm

Amusing to see the movies ACL and HAIR combined in one thread. Funny story-- the production designer on HAIR was a brilliant young theater designer named Stuart Wurtzel. Milos loved him, but when he wasn't available for Milos' next film, the job went to Stuart's wife, the equally brilliant designer Patrizia Von Brandenstein. That film? RAGTIME. Patrizia's next job for Milos was AMADEUS-- and the rest is history. The punchline is the job Patrizia landed 3 years later, a movie adaptation of the classic broadway show, A CHORUS LINE!

Stuart and Patrizia are still both brilliant--and very busy-- production designers (and my good friends).

Updated On: 11/10/13 at 07:37 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 9:30am

Why should the release of a crappy movie make Reed want to lose weight? What a beyond stupid thing to even suggest. The mind boggles.

As the mind boggles at how this, IMHO perhaps the most brilliant piece of musical staging ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqQAPcuuiP0 could become this, which seems like it was meant to be Michael Douglas' character's wet dream? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt4WvFxAGes

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 9:55am

I think it's valid to believe most people would lose their appetite while watching this film.

"I went on the CHORUS LINE: THE MOVIE diet and lost 13 pounds in three days!"

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 9:58am

It was basically a combination of Zach's wet dream and each of the characters exploring their innermost sexual desires and lusts through the magic of dance (insert jazz hands here)...geez, don't you know anything?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:02am

I never lost my appetite watching A CHORUS LINE.

I love how in the beginning of the number you see Audrey in the number but towards the end when the number gets more intricate she's not seen until the very end, when everyone moves downstage to strike their poses on the line. L M F P R A O!!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:03am

...and Gregg Burge's dancing in that number is BREATHTAKING. May he R.I.P.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:16am

"'I went on the CHORUS LINE: THE MOVIE diet and lost 13 pounds in three days!'"

I think anyone would given the crazy and kinda stupid Flashdance choreography.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:27am

ACL joins Atari's E.T. video game as one of the decade's biggest blunders. And the eighties was a decade of blunders, lemme tell ya.

As for HAIR: One great set piece after another. Dragged down only slightly by a wobbly screenplay. A flawed masterpiece.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:29am

I remember sitting at the bar in Charlie's in Midtown and seeing Gregg Burge come in to get change to use the pay phone outside.

RIP Gregg Burge
RIP Charlie's
RIP pay phones

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:47am

Sorry to get even more off-track, but Beverly D'Angelo as Miss Mona in Best Little Whorehouse is inspired casting. Would love to see a TV version that uses the original songs and (dream on) Tommy Tune's staging.

Well, and maybe they could add the naked Aggie boys in the shower from that god-awful movie.

Updated On: 11/11/13 at 10:47 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:51am

Whorehouse is ripe for another filmed (big screen or TV) version, since the movie, which I like, is very different from the stage show. It would be nice to have the whores' characters (and their songs and dialogue) back, and Doatsie Mae as well, so they don't just look like chorus extras. I'm a fan of the film, but it's not the stage show, at all.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:54am

Here ya go, Borstal!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:59am

I directed and starred in a play in LA a number of years ago. One night (and I'm still not exactly sure how), Beverly D'Angelo was in attendance. She stayed after and talked to the us for 20 minutes. She was beyond awesome.

But I've never warmed to the film HAIR. Maybe because John Savage always reads serial killer to me.

But A Chorus Line? I LOVED it as a kid. I mean...it's just awful. But I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for it.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 11:23am

But A Chorus Line? I LOVED it as a kid. I mean...it's just awful. But I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for it.

Yeah, that's it for me in a nutshell.

I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see Beverly D'Angelo in anything that requires her to sing because I love her singing voice. She's so multi-talented. Very few people know that she was also an animator over at Hanna-Barbera in the early '70s.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 11:59am

SO FRIGGIN' WHAT!

I didn't know I wasn't allowed to dissent. I said my piece, and didn't go on to debate with anyone.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 1:23pm

Oh g.d.e.l.g.i. I was just being sarcastic....I didn't mean any harm.
Sometimes I can be a bit abrasive...and rough around the edges...you DO have a right to your opinion.

[david_fick]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 1:30pm

EricMontreal22 wrote: As the mind boggles at how (the "Montage" as it appears on stage), IMHO perhaps the most brilliant piece of musical staging ever could become... (what) seems like it was meant to be Michael Douglas' character's wet dream?

The original "Montage" was indeed breathtaking. But just about everything that seems to have been breathtaking about A CHORUS LINE on stage was chucked out of the movie. Including any kind of sensibility of what it is really about. I have the film on DVD, so unless there is some extraordinary bonus feature on the Blu-ray, I'll probably give it a skip.





A CHORUS LINE: "The Montage"

Updated On: 11/11/13 at 01:30 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 1:31pm

Yeah.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 3:44pm

"The original "Montage" was indeed breathtaking. But just about everything that seems to have been breathtaking about A CHORUS LINE on stage was chucked out of the movie."

Which is interesting because ACL was hailed as being interesting because it used film techniques. Some of the stage lighting made use of cross-fades and other film techniques. And Bennett insisted that there be no intermission so that it flowed like a film.

It's a hard piece to put on film because the individual stories connect better with a live audience. I wish they had given the director assignment to either Milos Foreman or Randal Kleiser because they took stage material and made good movies in a period when movie musicals were dying.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 4:15pm

I actually do enjoy the film because it was my first exposure to this particular show and I had nothing else to which I could compare. Having since then seen excellent productions of the show, I still enjoy the film out of a sense of nostalgia.

This takes the prize for Worst Adaptation of a Musical.

Nah. I'd hand that prize to Godspell, Jacques Brel or The Fantasticks over A Chorus Line any day.

Whorehouse is ripe for another filmed (big screen or TV) version, since the movie, which I like, is very different from the stage show.

What Dom DeLuise did with Melvin P. Thorpe should never have been allowed on film.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 4:21pm

And hey, it's not worse that One Touch of Venus where they cut the score out.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 4:32pm

"Whorehouse is ripe for another filmed (big screen or TV) version, since the movie, which I like, is very different from the stage show."

I had thought at one time that this was on the list of projects that the theater gods wanted Reba McEntire to do.

If filmed, I'd like to see Norbert Leo Butz as the Sheriff, Alec Baldwin as the Governor, Sean Hayes as Melvin Thorpe and Martha Plimpton as Doatsey Mae.