Locked in a safe deposit box for much of the last 32 years, In the end, the tapes, which contain almost all the raw material of ∺ Chorus Line, remain the most comprehensive record of the musicals inception. There never would have been √ Chorus Line without Michael, said Kelly Bishop, who told her story in the character of Sheila, but there never would have been √ Chorus Line without us, Bennett who took 20 hours of interviews and had the vision to shape them into a groundbreaking musical. There is no doubt that the dancers provided most of the stories, and in some cases large chunks of their words show up verbatim in the show. The question of authorship on any collaboration can be tricky.
But reflecting the feelings of some of the other dancers, he added, We were the authors of the show, and we should have been paid accordingly. ∺t one point, when we were young and stupid, we kind of signed our lives away, and they exploited that, said Wayne Cilento, who played the role of Mike in the original The legality of the arrangements is not an issue. Im bound to uphold the terms that Michael agreed to. I only know what Michael intended by the words on that document, which are crystal clear, he said. Bennett made with the dancers three decades ago.
Breglio said he had no authority to renegotiate an agreement The revival is being produced by the executor of the Bennett estate, John Breglio, who is also one of Mr. This latest production because of those agreements. Now a revival of ∺ Chorus Line, which opens at the Schoenfeld Theater in Manhattan on Thursday night, has reopened some of these old wounds, particularly after the dancers realized they would receive no money from Questioned whether they have been fairly compensated and acknowledged. Bennett later arranged for them to receive royalties from the show at times up to $10,000 a year they have always The dancers who told their stories that night sold them to Mr. ∺ Chorus Line, one of the most successful musicals of all time. These tales, shaped by the choreographer Michael Bennett, would become the foundation of A tape recorderįor the next 12 hours they spoke about their lives, telling stories of divorce, child abuse and the plight of the professional dancer. On a snowy Saturday night in January 1974, after their curtain calls, 19 of Broadways best dancers gathered at the Nickolaus Exercise Center on East 23rd Street. Kelly Bishop, at top performing as Sheila in “Chorus Line” and last week in her home in South Orange, N.J. Martha Swope, top Marko Georgiev for The New York Times
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