Chorus line

They Really Need This Job. Watch Them Try to Get It.

EARLY in his career James D. Stern got a job assisting the writer of a small — really small — Off Broadway musical. When a few hundred people showed up to audition, Mr. Stern recalled recently, he was shocked. “I kept saying, ‘They’re not all here for this, are they?’ ”
It taught Mr. Stern, who went on to produce plays, musicals and movies, just how steeply the supply of stage performers outstrips the demand. So when he and Adam Del Deo, with whom he has shared the producing and directing of two documentaries, agreed to do one about the casting of the 2006 Broadway revival of “A Chorus Line,” they had a pretty good idea of how many auditioners they would face. [...]

di Sylviane Gold, articolo completo (7710 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 12 Aprile 2009