Michael Bennett's production of A Chorus Line will be revived in London for the first time next year! The show will open at the West End's London Palladium on 19th February 2013 with previews from 2nd February 2012.
The revival is being directed by Bob Avian, who also directed the 2006 Broadway production. Avian was Bennett’s long-term collaborator and his co-choreographer on the original production. A Chorus Line won nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama when it opened on Broadway in 1975 and went on to become the then longest-running musical on Broadway, reaching 6,137 performances. It transferred to the West End the following year, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
The show - which takes a behind-the-scenes look at 17 hopefuls auditioning for just eight places in a new Broadway musical - has a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Date, with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. Its famous score includes numbers such "I Hope I Get It", "Sing!" and, most memorably, "One (Singular Sensation)".
In 1985, it was made into a Hollywood film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Michael Douglas as the demanding director putting his dancers - including one ex-lover - through their paces. The West End production is being dedicated to composer Hamlisch, who died in August this year.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose Really Useful Group owns the 2,280-seat Palladium, said: “Marvin Hamlisch was a great friend and supporter in my early career and I can think of no more fitting tribute to him than this major revival.”
A Chorus Line is being produced by Mark Goucher, Adam Kenwright, ACT Productions, Tim Lawson, Daniel Sparrow & Mike Walsh Productions by special arrangement with John Breglio and A Chorus Line Broadway.
The production will move into the Palladium following a short run of Scrooge the Musical starring Tommy Steele from 24th October 2012 to 5th January 2013.
It was originally announced that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would move into the Palladium. However last week it was revealed the show would instead open at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June 2013, following Shrek's closure.
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