A Chorus Line announces full cast!
A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, announces the full cast.
The company will feature Ken Alan (Bobby), Brad Anderson (Don), Michael Berresse (Zach), Natalie Cortez (Diana), Charlotte d�Amboise (Cassie), Mara Davi (Maggie), Jessica Lee Goldyn (Val), Deidre Goodwin (Sheila), Tyler Hanes (Larry), James T. Lane (Richie), Paul McGill (Mark), Heather Parcells (Judy), Michael Paternostro (Greg), Alisan Porter (Bebe), Jeffrey Schecter (Mike), Yuka Takara (Connie), Jason Tam (Paul), Chryssie Whitehead (Kristine) and Tony Yazbeck (Al).
The new production of A Chorus Line will open at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Thursday, the 5 Oct 2006. Directed by its original Tony Award winning co-choreographer Bob Avian, the show begins Broadway previews on the 18 Sep 2006 following a six week run at San Francisco�s Curran Theatre from the 23 Jul - 2 Sep 2006.
A Chorus Line, conceived and originally choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, features a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. Baayork Lee re-stages the original choreography. A Chorus Line is produced by Vienna Waits Productions.
The new production features settings by Robin Wagner, costumes by Theoni V.Aldredge, lighting by Natasha Katz and Tharon Musser and sound design by Acme Sound Partners. Musical direction and supervision is by Patrick Vaccariello, orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick, Billy Byers and Hershey Kay and vocal arrangements are by Don Pippin.
Tickets for the new production of A Chorus Line will go on sale to the general public on the 18 Jun 2006.
The original production of A Chorus Line opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival�s Newman Theatre on the 21 May 1975 and transferred to Broadway�s Shubert Theatre on 25 Jul, opening there on 19 Oct 1975.
It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Score and Book, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It ran for nearly 15 years, closing on the 28 Apr 1990 after 6,137 performances.
A Chorus Line remains the longest running American musical in Broadway history.
Tickets for the musical go on sale to the general public on the 18 Jun 2006.
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