Review – A Chorus Line

I’ve never seen a live performance of the famous broadway production upon which this is based, so I can’t say how much of the awkwardness is inherent and how much can be blamed on director Richard Attenborough. Visually he’s clearly trying to out-Fosse Fosse, and it fails more often than it works. The characters and their stories are reasonably compelling, other than the mawkishly busted romance between the leads. However, it’s very much a creature of its time and place, a 1985 movie version of a 1975 Broadway musical about auditioning for a Broadway musical. Mildly amusing