Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 8 nominations total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the pre-Broadway run, song "Dance 10, Looks 3" was listed as "Tits and Ass", but it was changed when the production reached Broadway, the logic being if it were a surprise during the show, it would get a better audience reaction.
- GoofsIn the final dance scene at the end of the audition sequence, clearly visible are dancers who have been shown to be rejected.
This scene isn't intended to be in continuity but is more like a curtain call (as it was in the Broadway musical).
- Alternate versionsThe international print of the movie has a different opening credits sequence. All the titles appear with scenes around Manhattan, which opens the film, and then we see the shot of the theater as the dancers are lined up and walking in the theater; there is also no sound of Larry directing the dancers until the first shot inside the theater.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Zomergasten: Episode #2.1 (1989)
- SoundtracksA Chorus Line
Conceived, Choreographed, and Directed by Michael Bennett
Book of the stage play by James Kirkwood Jr. (as James Kirkwood) and Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Ed Kleban (as Edward Kleban)
Produced on the stage by Joseph Papp
a New York Shakespeare Festival Presentation
Featured review
A strange picture, as it peels the outer rims of human feelings and aims straight for the raw. Auditioning for a Broadway stage musical are hundreds of youngsters who dream with a place in the limelight. The plot, you can imagine, is basically an audition, with all its highs and lows. And when I say it has raw feelings, i'm talking about the cold process of selection, which is encarnated by the obscure character of Michael Douglas, who, in the obscurity of the audience, with only a little light next to him, says who stays and who goes, even if he has to be brutal sometimes ("Then don't dance!!!", he says shouting to a girl who didn't have any dance classes). The result is a film sustained by the different phases of selection and the suspense of who is going to be a star and who has to leave, which, altogether, will charm only dance-addicts and everyone who would like to be in one of these shows one day.
- Dockelektro
- Jul 26, 2001
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- Also known as
- Plesaci prvog reda
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $27,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,202,899
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $222,919
- Dec 15, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $14,203,236
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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