EVERY LITTLE STEP
EVERY LITTLE STEP is a more fascinating documentary than you would expect about the audition process for the 2006 restaging on Broadway of A Chorus Line. The show originally opened on a shoe string off Broadway in 1974 and by the time it closed down it was the longest running production ever on the Great White Way and remains in 4th place on that list to this day. That musical which won multiple Tony awards and a Pulitzer for the book was the original “work shopped” production. With a stroke of genius originator Michael Bennett sequestered a hand full of dancers in a room along with copious amounts of wine and a reel to reel tape deck. He rolled hours of mylar while the hoofers took turns at telling their show biz heartbreaks. Along with music form Marvin Hamlisch these stories were refined into the production being staged around the world today. Rare footage from the 70’s production is interspersed with scenes from the recent eight month audition process in front of long time Bennett collaborator Bob Avian and other original cast members which started with 3000 applicants and sifted down to 17. The result is an often tender build up of tension that is quite compelling. Imagine a whole season of American Idol and Dancing With the Stars boiled down into ninety minutes Talk about your one singular sensation.