Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show arrives on Broadway this week that demonstrates all over again that the most potent theater in America is still song and dance. Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line began as the smash of the off-Broadway season (TIME, June 2). It tells a somber story, lining up 27 dancers in competition for eight roles and making them play show and tell. As each character speaks, the ambitions and frustrations of a lowly chorus dancer become synonymous with everyone's battle for a place in the sun. Yet A Chorus Line is both insouciant and seductive, full...
...started the summer of the Watergate hearings, 1973," Bennett told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin. "It was a bad year for Broadway and not so hot for me. I hadn't danced in two years, and I was 25 pounds heavier. That summer I sat out in Bridgehampton, watching the hearings and thinking, 'God, truth! Would I like to see some truth in life. I would like to see some truth on the stage.' I wanted to believe in our country as a place where people trust again, and in a strange way I didn't want...
...night Bennett gathered together 24 dancers he knew-kids from choruses-and told them he was going to go around the studio with a tape recorder. He asked each one to tell why he or she had decided to dance and to recall childhood memories up to the age of twelve...
About Emotions. "Sixteen hours later, we got to age 21," Bennett says. "And what happened was that we ended up talking about life. It was like a group session, only everybody was listening and nobody was criticizing or judging. The next morning when I walked out of that studio, I was happy. That night had released a lot of guilt in me. I had thought I was the only confused kid, but it turned out that a lot of our lives had been similar. We all found that dancing was something that we could...
...following function, function has to follow form. "We simply deal with what we find," says Boston Architect Paul McGinley of Anderson Notter Associates Inc. "The old building itself determines the kinds of spaces you make." When the plans are completed, says Architect Roger Lang of Boston's Stahl-Bennett Inc., "you still have to find a banker who is willing to believe that you can make that funny old wharf into a funny new condominium building...