A CHORUS LINE, Drury Lane Theatre Evergreen Park, and WHOSE CHORUS LINE IS IT ANYWAY?, ComedySportz, at the TurnAround Theatre. Who could have guessed that all those 50s and 60s experiments in mixing theater with the frontiers of psychology–group therapy, encounter groups, psychodrama–would have resulted in a show as safe and essentially harmless as the 1975 Broadway hit A Chorus Line? Then again, who could have guessed that a play about a bunch of dancers auditioning for a part in an unnamed musical and talking about their lives would have become a hit musical?
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Most impressive, though, were the strong story and musical numbers the ensemble created: on the night I attended, the story involved two star-crossed lovers from rival mob families. These guys are clearly having a blast onstage, and the excitement is infectious.
