The musical opened on London’s West End in 1986 and then on Broadway in New York in 1988. The original cast of the 1986 West End production included Sarah Brightman (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s then wife) as Christine and Michael Crawford as the Phantom. In fact, the story includes a number of made-up operas called Hannibal and the Phantom’s masterpiece Don Juan Triumphant. The style of Lloyd Webber’s music is deliberately operatic in style, while still remaining committed to its West End/Broadway origins. Lloyd Webber said: “I was actually writing something else at the time, and I realised that the reason I was hung up was because I was trying to write a major romantic story, and I had been trying to do that ever since I started my career.

There had already been two film versions of the novel, but never a musical.

The ﬁlm was released in December 1985 by Columbia Pictures but proved not to be as popular or successful as the award winning stage show on which it was based.The idea for Phantom came from Lloyd Webber, who contacted legendary producer Cameron Mackintosh and suggested creating a musical based on Leroux’s novel. In 1985, a decade after the stage show opened to such success on Broadway, A Chorus Line was made into a Hollywood film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Michael Douglas as the choreographer. A Chorus Line remains one of the longest running Broadway shows ever staged and its success has spawned many successful stage productions worldwide ever since. The original Broadway production ran for a previously unprecedented 6,137 performances, so becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history at that time, until it was ﬁnally surpassed for the ﬁrst time some twenty two years later, in 1997. The production was an unprecedented box ofﬁce success and acclaimed critical hit, with the musical receiving twelve Tony Award nominations, of which it won nine, and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of individual performers and the production’s choreographer as they describe the events which have shaped their lives and decisions to dance professionally.įollowing several workshops and a highly successful off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line opened on Broadway in ]uly 1975, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. The plot centres around Broadway dancers auditioning for places in a chorus line, with the entire musical set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during auditions. £35.00 Composer: Marvin Hamlisch Arranger: Christopher Wormald Category: FILM MUSIC A Chorus Line is an American musical with music composed by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics written by Edward Kleban and the story based on the book by James Kirkwood jr. Continue shopping Search again Home page Cat No.

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