“A Chorus Line” original cast reunion at the Library for Performing Arts
I had a ticket to the Juilliard Dance Repertory and then heard that on the same night the original cast of “A Chorus Line” was going to talk about it at the Library for Performing Arts so I had to go to both. Don Pippin, the arranger, was sitting at a Steinway as Priscilla Lopez and Bayoork Lee reminisced about the famous all night auditions (which were like group psychotherapy), while they looked through the transcripts which turned into the script. Now and again they would literally burst into song and even, a couple of times, into a dance routine. When Priscilla Lopez came across the original draft of “Nothing,” the song about her experience at High School, she just stood up and sang it. It was enthralling. A woman kept saying hello to me. She turned out to be my neighbour but I did not recognize her because when she is at home she is a man.
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| Don Pippin and Priscilla Lopez at NYLPA |
