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Acl study guide STUDY GUSITDUEDY GUIDE CTABLE OF CONTENTS CONTEXT Creating A Chorus Line p - Meet the Stars p - An Interview with Baayork Lee p - One Singular Piece of Theater History p - Glossary p RESOURCES ACTIVITIES Before the Show p Intermission Acti

STUDY GUSITDUEDY GUIDE CTABLE OF CONTENTS CONTEXT Creating A Chorus Line p - Meet the Stars p - An Interview with Baayork Lee p - One Singular Piece of Theater History p - Glossary p RESOURCES ACTIVITIES Before the Show p Intermission Activity p - After the Show p Sources p Up Next for City Center Education p - CCONTEXT CCREATING A CHORUS LINE By Morganne Evans ??I really want to talk about us I think we ? re all pretty interesting and I think maybe there is a show in there somewhere which would be called A Chorus Line ? In January of Michael Bennett said these words to a group of Broadway chorus dancers gathered around a tape recorder at Nickolaus Exercise Center in Manhattan The prompt was simple Say your name where you were born and why you started dancing One by one the dancers began to share their accounts the stories brimming with emotion Many of the dancers knew each other but by the end of the night they knew more about each other ? s personal stories than they could have ever imagined Little did they know their stories would plant the seeds that would grow into one of the longest-running musicals on Broadway Like his interviewees Michael Bennett was well versed in the lifestyle of a Broadway dancer At sixteen years old he dropped out of school to join an international touring company of West Side Story Upon returning to New York his resume grew longer with credits as a performer choreographer and director He began forming connections with fellow dancers such as Baayork Lee Donna McKechnie and Bob Avian all of whom would go on to work on A Chorus Line Through his experience Bennett became increasingly aware of the raw talent that existed within the chorus He wanted to create a project that would break that barrier and allow chorus dancers a chance to ?nd their light and to share their stories and talents with the world After compiling about twenty-four hours of taped interviews Bennett was convinced that he could conceive a show out of the stories the dancers told He took the tapes and met with Joe Papp who had recently founded The Public Theater After listening to the ?rst minutes of the tapes Papp agreed to let Bennett workshop A Chorus Line at The Public Theater Bennett paid the dancers each in exchange for their interviews and promised to not use anyone ? s real name in the production The group of dancers whose lives were shaping the show were asked to come in to audition with some of them reading for parts based on their own stories Among those who were cast in roles based on their individual interviews were Priscilla Lopez as Diana Morales Baayork Lee as Connie Wong and Kelly Bishop as Sheila Bryant The character Zach mirrored Michael Bennett with his lines in the production often mimicking the same questions that Bennett originally posed to