A Chorus Line
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A Chorus Line, subtitled Original Cast Recording, is an album containing a recording of the 1975 musical A Chorus Line made by its original Broadway cast. The album was released in the same year by Columbia.
- Opened
- 1975
- Performances
- 6,137
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1976.
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1975 | Shubert Theatre Original. April 15, 1975 · Michael Bennett | 6,137 performances · 9 Tony wins |
| 2006 | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Revival. October 5, 2006 · Bob Avian | 759 performances |
| 2013 | London Palladium Transfer. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 25 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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39 passages naming A Chorus Line, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Not quite the format for a long-running smash, perhaps, but the show’s innovations did turn up in later productions such as Company and A Chorus Line (nonlinear stories), Hallelujah, Baby! book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p136
And there it remained until April 13, 1980, for a record run that was not overtaken until A Chorus Line danced past the mark. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p226
e such a strong empathetical bond with its audiences that it became far and away the longest running production — musical or dramatic — ever staged on Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p235
There have been two touring companies of A Chorus Line, the first traveling for seven years, the second for five years eight months. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p236
A Chorus Line managed to create such a strong empathetical bond with its audiences that it became far and away the longest running production — musical or dramatic — ever staged on Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p267
On October 7, 1992, Cats celebrated its tenth anniversary, with 4,177 performances as of that date, making it the second longest running show in Broadway history (second only to A Chorus Line). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p287
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