Word: choruses
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...Cinema A Chorus Line, Santa Claus, Rocky's fourth fray and a Sherlock Holmes fantasy add up to bad news for Christmas from Tinseltown...
...Chorus Line, which continues to wow 'em on Broadway a decade after it opened, is hardly a perfect musical. The songs are functional, not indelible. The dialogue wallows in the least engaging of performer emotions, narcissism and self-pity. The plot asks you to believe that performers in a musical are selected on a kind of psychiatrist's casting couch, spilling their secret sordid pasts to the director. Yet the thing worked onstage as a puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed...
...decency. Richard Attenborough's movies are like the best-behaved guests at a Swiss embassy reception; they never offend, never impress. So he will not force the narrative into revealing new corners, or visualize a number with anything as raw and tasteless as imagination. But discretion can take A Chorus Line only so far. Onstage the characters were small, vulnerable creatures on a big, bare stage; onscreen they must trumpet XXXXX aborted in midflight to concentrate on all the suffering wimpery of the plot. Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood in heroic silhouette. Cassie (Alyson Reed), Zach...
...late '70s the Eighth Street players had codified an elaborate system of responses to the screen dialogue and action. Tonight, as on every weekend night, they perform their lines with a professional precision the latest cast of A Chorus Line would be hard put to match. As the Fox logo fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap...
...Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1957 to 1974, who brought it to world prominence with 15 national and international tours, 850 weekly radio concerts for the CBS network's Music and the Spoken Word, 50 record albums that totaled 4 million in sales, and even a hit single (the chorus's 1959 recording of Battle Hymn of the Republic); in Salt Lake City...