He’s carted off to the hospital, and the cast is left to realize that the same thing could happen to any one of them. The immediate context of “What I Did” is a potentially career-ending event: a dancer falls during a tap routine and re-injures a knee that has just had surgery.
There’s a double layer of meaning here, if you think about it: the cast performing the musical has had to go through tryouts in order to now perform onstage the story of a prospective cast going through tryouts. Each one has come to this life by a different route. Along the way the hopefuls are asked to tell how they got into dance.
#Who wrote the chorus line series#
Eventually the arc of the story was developed as a series of scenes from initial tryouts for the musical through to the point at which the final casting decisions have been made and the chorus line has been chosen.
#Who wrote the chorus line professional#
The dancer and choreographer Michael Bennett wanted to show what the life of a “gypsy” (a chorus dancer) was really like, and the script started out as a series of tape-recorded stories of real dancers talking about their personal and professional lives as they got together after rehearsals for other shows. The entire action of the musical takes place on a bare stage, although there are plenty of props and also some imaginative use of mirrors.
This selection is taken from the enormously popular musical A Chorus Line, which ran for over 6,000 performances in its initial run on Broadway starting in 1975 It is, however, a song about passion, in this case a passion for dancing. No, if by “love song” you mean a song about romantic love.
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