Zachs old flame in the chorus line
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Mikayla Agrella is Cassie, Zach’s old flame and ex live-in girlfriend. In her number, “At The Ballet, ”she reminisces about her parents and her dancing lessons and her dysfunctional family life. She’s been around the block several times. Sheila, a very strong Natalie Nucci is tough as nails and somewhat cynical. Mike (Jeffrey Scott Parsons) is the youngest of twelve who tells how he used to mimic his sister at her dance class by learning her steps in “I Can Do That”. Lauren Louis as Diana, the brash Latina, who speaks of her toughness with one of her numbers, “Nothing” while relating a touchy, feely acting class she took in school on the one hand, and on the other hand later on in the show, belting out “What I Did For Love” with more emotional tremor than what was expected of her given her tough veneer. One by one Zach prods, encourages and yells out orders from some place in the back of the ‘theatre’ for information from each with the usual suspects and personalities standing out over and above the others. He does this by relentlessly probing, questioning, and eliminating while all the while getting under their collective skins by having each one give a brief background of themselves as the “I Hope I Get It” mantra is chanted in the background.
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In charge of these auditions in this show is the director, Zach, (Jeffrey Ricca) who barks out orders to this chorus of those wannabe chosen. The production opens backstage in a generic theatre where 24 dancers are vying for and auditioning to fill eight spots for a new musical about to be launched. The variables are in the casting of the show. Over the years, there have been at least five A Chorus Line productions that have either passed through on touring shows or were home grown. It also gives the audience a chance to perhaps understand how much hard work is involved in making something look so easy.
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It more than deserves the outing Welk Village Theatre in Escondido, under the deft direction of Hector Guerrero (who also choreographs), gave to it on opening night.Įvery now and then, it’s good to see it again just because it is one of the classic dance shows of Broadway’s past (by doing the math, it’s 45 years old), not to mention it is a damn solid and good show, and it gives dancers the complete floor on what goes into the process of becoming a dancer. The show ran for 6,137 performances and became the fourth longest running Broadway show ever.Īny show that has that sustainability deserves a second, third and however many productions it takes to look back at what is says and to whom it’s speaking.įor all the dancers, choreographers, wannabe dancers and musical theatre lovers, this is tribute you, old new and in between.
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It received 12 Tony Award nominations, winning for Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score culminating with nine in all. " In each chorus, the narrator mentions that he's been sitting in the garden, "reading Revelations / With my bare feet in the dirt" - an innocuous scene until the final chorus ends with a dark cliffhanger.ESCONDIDO, California - In 1975 the Marvin Hamlisch (music), Edward Kleban (lyrics), James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante (book) and Michael Bennett (conceived and originally directed and choreographed) musical hit, A Chorus Line hit Broadway and never looked back. And unlike the other songs on this list thus far, it tells a very specific story: the tale of a farming family, sung from the point of view of the youngest of three children, who now owns the land after inheriting it from his parents, who moved from Ireland.Īs the song progresses, listeners learn that the farm was once very profitable, but it isn't so much anymore: "The fields ain't once they once were / The rains just seem to flood. "Scarecrow in the Garden" comes from Stapleton's 2017 album From A Room, Vol. Stapleton's "Scarecrow in the Garden" does not go where you expect it to - and it's a credit to the country star and co-writers Brice Long and Matt Fleener that the song's very last line made our jaws drop the first time we heard it. 7 "Scarecrow in the Garden" Chris Stapleton