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Lively auditions for the revival of “A Chorus Line” are spliced with footage of the original production and it’s roots. Hopeful dancers strut their stuff, belt out popular tunes, and open up about their personal lives as the judges; Bob Avian (the original choreographer with Michael Bennett) and dancing dynamo Baayork Lee [...]

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If your feet boggie to the beat of the blues, you’ll thrill to the tempo of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), Howlin’ Wolf (Eamonn Walker), and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles) showcased in the order they were discovered by record promoter/producer Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody).  [...]

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Meryl Streep truly is the “dancing queen” in the film version of the popular musical. Flamboyant gal pals (Julie Walters and Christine Baranski), a lovely daughter (Amanda Seyfried) about to be married on a breathtaking Greek Island, three possible dads (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth & Stellan Skarsgård) invited to give the bride away, and an [...]

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Johnny Depp is amazing in the darkly dramatic musical about a barber who has come back to his London home after being wrongly jailed by a corrupt official (Alan Rickman). Helena Bonham Carter is the perfect companion to Depp’s disturbing character, with direction by her husband, Tim Burton.
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Director/writer John Turturro utilizes quite a cast (Susan Sarandon, James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Mary-Louise Parker, Mandy Moore, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Eddy Izzard, Elaine Stritch) in his quirky musical. Conversations are loosely based upon banter that Turturro overheard growing up in his New York neighborhood, while scenarios and [...]

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