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A Chorus Line Movie on Blu Ray

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david_fick
#75A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 11/11/13 at 10:33pm

Gothampc wrote:It's a hard piece to put on film because the individual stories connect better with a live audience.

And yet, the very thing that makes reality television connect with its audience is the individual stories. I'm not saying that A CHORUS LINE wouldn't be a hard piece to put on film, but there are ways it could be done well. This wasn't it.


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amoni
#76A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 11/12/13 at 3:50pm

"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?"

Why would you state something so disingenuous? I was there too. As with Opening Nights on Broadway, there is a tradition of showing respect for the creators. "A Chorus Line" had it's World Premiere at Radio City Music Hall on December 9th 1985 and it was attended by Sir Richard Attenborough, Michael Douglas, Audrey Landers, the rest of the cast and New York crew and some six thousand people. It wasn't some private critic screening or a some Bum****e multiplex. The film most certainly did not end to silence, no matter what YOU thought of it.

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tazber
#77A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 11/12/13 at 4:48pm

Lord knows it should have.


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Musical Master
#78A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/8/14 at 3:21pm

I got the Blu-ray of this movie, and yes it's quite bad as everyone says. But for some odd reason, I sort of think that there's a lot of good moments in it that it's not the worst musical film out there. To me the honor goes to THE FANTASTICKS, god now THAT is an awful cringeworthy movie.

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Musical Master
#79A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:42pm

You know.. Out of all the Broadway to film adaptations out there today, A CHORUS LINE needs a remake the most. Michael Bennett's original concept for the CHORUS LINE film could be used, it's a rather brilliant one.

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Mr Roxy
#80A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:47pm

They want to remake WSS but not this?

WTF


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Musical Master
#81A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:03pm

^I know right? A remake using Michael Bennett's original film concept which was the main characters auditioning for remaining 8 roles for the film version of A CHORUS LINE sounds amazing.

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ACL2006
#82A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:05pm

of course it would still need to be done with the correct team. should they update ACL?? Do they add a few "names" to the movie?? Do they do the original Bennett choreography?? Lots of questions.


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.

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Musical Master
#83A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:38pm

^If the new movie needed a "name" then Catherine Zeta-Jones would make a perfect Sheila.

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haterobics
#84A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:45pm

"They want to remake WSS but not this? "

Who is "they," it's not like there's a single committee who decide what can become a movie. One director has a vision to retell WSS, so they are... no one is being prevented from doing the same with ACL.

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Musical Master
#85A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:47pm

^I think he's referring to "Hollywood suits". But Steven Spielberg could do wonders with WEST SIDE STORY.

Phyllis Rogers Stone
#86A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:58pm

If the new movie needed a "name" then Catherine Zeta-Jones would make a perfect Sheila.

Well, except for the fact that Catherine Zeta-Jones hasn't looked 29 since the first time she was 29.

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Musical Master
#87A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:20pm

^Is Sheila really 29? I though that was joke for she looks older than 29.

KnewItWhenIWasInFron
#88A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:29pm

Sheila is probably shaving off a year or four but she's certainly not CZJ's age, very nearly 45.

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Musical Master
#89A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:32pm

^I wonder who could play Sheila and Cassie then.

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#90A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:41pm

Kelly Bishop was only 31 when the show opened on Broadway, so I've never assumed that Sheila is shaving years off her age when she says she's going to be 30 soon.

This is a case where I say if you're going to do this movie and do it right you need to cast dancers. Not movie stars who can dance. A star throws the balance of the entire piece right off, as we saw with the film version that currently exists when they tried to make it clear that Cassie was supposed to be the "star" of the movie.

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Musical Master
#91A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 12:04am

^Personally, it would be amazing if a new A CHORUS LINE film will cast unknowns as the auditioning dancers.

jimmycurry01
#92A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 4:42am

"A remake using Michael Bennett's original film concept which was the main characters auditioning for remaining 8 roles for the film version of A CHORUS LINE sounds amazing."

We pretty much got that with the film Every Little Step, and that is a very enjoyable film. When I want to watch a film version of A Chorus Line, I watch that documentary instead of Attenborough's crappy movie.

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Michael Bennett
#93A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 9:25am

This film is such a horrifying guilty pleasure for my friends and I - it has provided the lifetime of memories the film makers always dreamed of but never realized they were gifting. I'm personally obsessed with Alyson Reed's asymmetrical hair cut and all of the 'looks' she sports in the "Let Me Dance for You" flashback. We've even named them (the "Woodland Sprite" and the "Heidi"). But boy could she dance.

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Mister Matt
#94A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 10:25am

To me the honor goes to THE FANTASTICKS, god now THAT is an awful cringeworthy movie.

I think the films of Godspell and Jacques Brel make A Chorus Line and The Fantasticks seem Oscar worthy.


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Musical Master
#95A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 11:39am

^Oh lord, don't remind me of GODSPELL.... What an AWFUL movie.

Wilmingtom
#96A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 11:54am

I never miss a Richard Attenborough muical.

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Michael Bennett
#97A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:16pm

And who could forget this delightful bit of absurdity.

"Watch this. This is right..."

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Musical Master
#98A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:20pm

^Not to mention the Tarzan yell and swing in "I Can Do That". That was REALLY absurd.

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Michael Bennett
#99A CHORUS LINE Movie on Blu Ray
Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:28pm

I would almost go so far as to say, WHEN did you EVER see dancing like that in a Broadway musical, but I think there actually was something like that in DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES.