Writer lets you save an unlimited number of documents of any length. Writer packs a ton of powerful features into its sleek design.ĭo you write a lot? Not a problem. Its no-nonsense, minimal interface gets out of your way. Writer eliminates distractions so that you can concentrate, be more productive, and get your writing done. I think the message of the play is that you don't get called back for a grand finale you simply go to another audition.Writer lets you focus on what's important: your words. Better, perhaps, to have eight dancers on stage, and then cut to the others putting on their street clothes, waiting at bus stops, explaining to friends how they didn't get the job, or going to their dance classes yet once again. Since "A Chorus Line" is a musical about itself, and since the whole hard, bitter, romantic truth of the story is that many are called but few are chosen, the roll call at the end strikes a false note of triumph. That leads to my one major difference with Attenborough's approach. Such questions are intercut with song and dance, with virtuoso solo numbers (my favorite was Charles McGowan's "I Can Do That!") and ensemble production numbers, leading up to a big and splashy finale, in which all of the dancers who originally auditioned are back on stage, together once again. Was this a misguided attempt to tell the rejected eight that they were also winners? Or was it simply cruelty? We are left to answer for ourselves. I thought Zach's most revealing moment came when he made the cut from 16 dancers to eight, reading out eight names and then, when the eight were assembled downstage with smiles on their faces, thanking them and dismissing them he had chosen the eight he did not name. That makes it all the more effective when he occasionally relents and gives one of the dancers a break softening momentarily before putting on his mask again.
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The underlying tension in the movie circles around Zach's eventual decision: Will his heart or his profession make the eventual decision about Sheila? Douglas plays Zach on a staccato, harsh note this is a workaholic who walks around with a lot of anger. Unlike the play, the movie opens up by going offstage for flashbacks to their affair, but the flashbacks are notable mostly for the way they focus on the theatrical lives of this couple - the way their private lives seem valid only to the degree that they reflect acceptance from the audience. Sheila was a star, but now she simply needs a job. They met in the theater, courted in the theater, broke up because Zach's job left no time for a personal life. An unexpected dancer has appeared for the auditions - Sheila ( Vicki Frederick), Zach's former girlfriend. Meanwhile, a backstage drama is taking shape.
Many of the dancers have the most extraordinary difficulties in doing this, and one of them is frank: "Give me the lines, and I can play anybody. Finally there are 16 left, and Zach asks each one of them to talk on a personal level - talk about when they were born, and where, and what their lives have been like, and what their dreams are. Platoons of dancers are brought on stage, winnowed, dismissed. Well, if that isn't the life they wanted, why did they volunteer for it? They step hesitantly to the edge of the stage, blinded by the spotlight, and talk into the void.
Occasionally he lights a cigarette, and the ash glows as he takes the measure of the dancers on the stage. Zach ( Michael Douglas), the choreographer, sits behind a writing platform somewhere out there in the darkness. Most of the scenes take place inside a theater. The result may not please purists who want a film record of what they saw on stage, but this is one of the most intelligent and compelling movie musicals in a long time - and the most grown up, since it isn't limited, as so many contemporary musicals are, to the celebration of the survival qualities of geriatric actresses. Richard Attenborough's film treatment of this story sticks to the outlines of the stage version, by and large, although he leaves the stage to fill in the details of the choreographer's old romance, and he leaves out some of the original songs to make room for some new ones. A choreographer is casting eight dancers for a new musical he hopes to stage, and during one long and truthful day he auditions dozens of dancers before he makes his final selection. "A Chorus Line" is now in its 11th year on stages all over the world its story is by now well-known.
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