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Page 1 of 3 A CHORUS OF APPROVAL
John Morrison goes backstage to watch an ambitious Sevenoaks drama company tackle a Broadway classic  The cast of Stag Theatre Company's October production of 'A Chorus Line'
Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch… Again!’
The music is relentless and so are the dance steps. Nobody has more than a few seconds to take breath. The lyrics are about pressure, ambition and the fear of failure.
‘I really need this job.
Please God, I need this job.
I’ve got to get this job.’
We’re in a church hall in Sevenoaks where the Stag Theatre Company is rehearsing its October production of the classic Broadway musical A Chorus Line. The task facing director Chris Howland, music director David Grubb and choreographer Jessica Miles looks an impossible one. They have to shape a cast of around 20 into an ensemble that can sing, act and above all dance on stage like slick Broadway professionals. This is the musical whose original 1975 production ran for an incredible 15 years at the Shubert Theatre in New York, won nine Tony awards, a Pulitzer and a small mountain of other prizes. There’s a fresh revival running on Broadway at the moment under the slogan THE BEST MUSICAL. EVER. The show is a snapshot of the New York theatre at its most ruthless and unsentimental; it takes us into an audition for an unnamed musical, for which the director Zach will pick just four girls and four boys from a crowd of hopefuls. The dancers are a mixed crowd, some young, some not-so-young, all desperate for the big break.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 October 2007 )
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