A Chorus Line In Quarantine
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- What started out as a fun project during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic quarantine on our private Facebook group evolved into something emotional, nostalgic, and uniquely unifying amidst a very dark and isolated period in humanity. Now, more than a decade after their closing night, 44 cast members of the broadway revival of "A Chorus Line" share what brought them all together "again". It was...5, 6, 7, 8.
A CHORUS LINE IN QUARANTINE was the brainchild of Jeffrey "Shecky" Schecter who played Mike in the original Broadway revival cast. On March 31st, just around the two week mark of the quarantine, Shecky reached out with a fun proposition to his fellow cast mates to do a clean "mark” through of the opening combo for fun in whatever living circumstances everyone was quarantining in and he (or someone) would throw them together. Enter Heather Parcells (who played Judy Turner in the Revival). She volunteered to edit the project and reached out to everyone from the cast who wasn't on facebook...The comment train started, and the opening combo videos started rolling in from the cast who has been dispersed all over the globe during the decade following the closing of the show, in August, 2008. Cast members live in New York, Japan, Australia, California, Florida, Maine, and New Jersey, to name a few locales. Each cast member began putting their own personal touch on the combination. From fully produced comedic sketches to topical jokes about the pandemic to full out dance explosions, but each maintaining the sheer JOY of getting to dance.
As people started to share their videos on the facebook group, a reunion began despite the isolation. We became a cast again. We interacted again. We supported each other's dancing again, we were rooting for the next video to see how the next person would spin it. It became our morning coffee. It became our morning dose of positivity. We all no longer felt alone. We were all looking forward to something. While we currently live in a completely uncertain world, having knowledge of something good coming our way was enough to get us through the next day.
Conceived by: Jeffrey Schecter
Edited by: Heather Parcells
Marketing and Consultation by: Tyler Hanes
Starring: (in order of appearance)
Jason Tam
Michael Berresse
Heather Parcells
Bryan Knowlton
Michelle Arevena
Denis Lambert
Jeffrey Schecter
Deidre Goodwin
Mara Davi
Lorin Latarro
Natalie Cortez
Chryssie Whitehead
E. Clayton Cornelius
Yuka Takara
Tyler Hanes
Alisan Porter
Tony Yazbeck
Jessica Lee Goldyn
Brad Anderson
Lyndy Franklin
Jessica Lea Patty
Liza B. Domingo
Todd Anderson
Courtney Laine Mazza
Eric Sciotto
Katherine Tokarz
Michael Gruber
Kevin Worley
Jenifer Foote
Aaron J. Albano
Dena DiGiacinto
Tommy Berkland
Deanna Aguinaga
Deone Zanotto
Kimberly Dawn Nuemann
Lisa Ho
Kim Shriver
J. Elaine Marcos
Paul McGill
Melissa Lone
Kurt Domoney
Mike Cannon
Mario Lopez
Charlotte d'Amboise
Terrance Mann
Thank you all for your commitment to dancing. I wish I could still dance like you. It made me feel alive & no other feeling like dancing on the stage. I’m elderly now but I will never forget how dancing made me feel. I’m an old Pamela Devis 👧. Fabulous memories of the theatre. Dance is magical. I hope theatre’s will open again after the virus because dreams will die of performance. The live theatre is a magical place, whether to watch or perform. Penny in Warwickshire.
You are never too old to dance. Put on some music and just go for it.
I loved this. The unmade beds, the kids, the toys, the laundry, the empty streets of broadway. It’s so authentic. Thank you.
Stay safe and healthy.
Dear Heather, dear Jeffrey, my Name is Stefan Nagel and I played "Mike" in the Original Austrian Cast in Vienna in 1987. It was a highlight of my life and I must say: This wonderful choreography sticks in our brain and muscles forever, and I am glad it does. How wonderful to see you all doing it after so many years. Thanks for the memories... Stay healthy everyone, your were "many singular sensation's". Stefan
Yes once you learn it you never forget it. I learned One in a dance class, flash forward 20 years finally got to do the show. I still remembered it.
That's awesome that it sticks in your brain! I wish I could learn this!😂😂SUCH amazing choreography!
@Cindy Klenk Hello Cindy, thanks for answering me. Never happend before - well, I don't ever write comments on anything on the net. You wrote: "wie geht's" - do you speak german? Have you had (or still have) a musical career ongoing)? I mean in general - not during corona times. I suppose there is not much going on in the states. Theaters in germany are closed and will stay closes for a while. In any case, the new saying is: "stay negative..." Best stefan
Thank you Stefan. Glad you enjoyed it. It was a highlight of my year to bring us all together. Wishing you well.
The classic musical about the Broadway chorus, and to see this dancer on an empty 45th street, probably the center of the Broadway theater district. Wow!
That part made me sad. I'm not used to seeing NY streets or sidewalks empty.
That part really made it hit home that we are going through a crisis right now! Crazy seeing it so empty!
I love this idea -- and the inclusion of the disinterested children!
Bonnie Wilcox at the 2:09 mark, disinterested child nearly ate a foot!
Bonnie Wilcox totally
And disinterested pets.
I am 75 and always wanted to dance. It did not happen. But, when I watch this I feel energized , happy, and alive! Thank you all!
Love that!! Never too late!
Got nothing but love for being able to pull this off on carpet and/or tennis shoes...I can only imagine how much more difficult it made those turns. Thanks for sharing! Much love from a huge fan!!
THIS IS EVERYTHING.. As a musical theatre vocal coach myself, it is amazing to see so many of my friends and talented dancers from Broadway lifting the spirits of the world . Love you all... AGAIN 5 6 7 8
Thanks to all of the artists. This show was playing while I trained to be a surgeon. Surgery is a continuous audition to be good enough for our patient., Working at it for 50 years . Hope I still do all steps as well as you do.
“God, I hope I (don’t) get it”
Seishirou Himada I’d love to see a Chorus Line/ covid 19 parody of this 😅
I did ACL as a high schooler with what became theater group for a couple of years. I played Kristine Urich. One of the most amazing times of my life. The music, the dances... everything was magical. I always cherish that experience.
Played this show in the pit a few times (trombone) and boy, do I miss playing shows!
This music is so EPIC!!! Bet you loved playing it!
This is my absolute favorite "thing people made during the quarantine". It's the only thing that gets me through some of the rougher moments of people being stupid.
❤️
I can tickle the ivories. I can tickle your palate in the kitchen. What I CAN'T do is dance like this. Thank God for A Chorus Line and those that bring genius to us with their dancing. You are much loved!
I am the proud aunt of Jeffrey "Shecky” Schecter, who came up with the idea of this video, Broadway Revival 2006 Cast of A Chorus Line Dance Under Quarantine. He played Mike in the 2006 cast. His endless creativity and talent never cease to amaze me.
I'm not surprised you're proud! This is EPIC!
Excellent. Loving the brief cameos by the dancers' children. 🥰🥰🥰
LOVING Terrence Mann at the end!!!
Lifted our spirits! How awesome everyone danced. Thank you! Stay well.
My biggest smile of the week. Thanks so much!
I saw the national touring company twice, Richmond VA and Corpus Christi, TX. At the latter show, we sat behind a dance teacher and her class of about 20 school age kids. As the curtain came down, the teacher asked her class "Okay, are we going to put this on?" The kids were all for it. One girl asked "Do we get to say the cuss words? If we do, I want to play Val!"
I lived in NYC in the late '70s and would go see A Chorus Line every time I needed a boost (always in February). It never disappointed me then and this tribute video brought a big smile to my face. Thanks for the lift up!
It’s lovely to see performers at home with family. It’s easy to forget that actors, dancers etc have real lives that they have to give time and attention and love to...as well as their great performances,
I am not a dancer. Probably the furthest from it. But I am an artist and I have loved “A Chorus Line” since I was young. Thank you gifted dancers and artists! We love you so, so much!
How wonderful! Michael would be so proud to see his the spirit of the show be so uplifting at a time like this! Good Job Everyone!
GREAT!!! All goes to show once a dancer always a dancer 😁👏👏💃🕺👯!
The human race is a marvel. I am continually amazed by the ways people find to connect and reach out in this unprecedented time of connected isolation. Thank you for a wonderful example of this. For not only including us all in your connection , but sharing your skills and lives with us.
WOW!! after all these years I still get thrills and chills when seeing any production of this show. It inspired so many people to dance professionally or just to enjoy the art of dance more: be it a major theme park, resort revue, cruiseline and surely local/regional theatre!! I always loved they were just people on the line yearning to become a star or be seen on stage in their own right . Just learning and being able to perform and get paid for something they loved to do was the passion that just could not be taken away. And too even performing for nothing in a local theatre is always something too any want to be performer or dancer will do just for the satisfaction and love they get back through applause. There has never been a show like the original A Chorus Line. The first edition was back in the late 70s. Aways so popular and loved, that a 2nd broadway show in New York City would also be produced.in that the show was bought back to another generation. And I am sure will be continued to be produced who knows!! for how long. (i actually saw a few of these people on Equity Tours.) Like so many people who have seen the show, I always wanted to be one of those professional dancers and make the line only to be chosen to be in the show (Oh my, I have so many thoughts.) The show is in my all time top 10 broadway shows ever!! , The dancers too are so defined in the characters they are and like everyone wants their dream to come true. Some will get it, many do not. and alas is with life, sacrifices will happen But if you get to do that ONE thing you LOVE, you are exceptionally lucky...no matter how short or long a tenure. I love this show. Thank you for sharing this. I would be honored to see any of you again in a broadway show. And I guess that is about the greatest and well deserved complement to you I can give.
bob hoke Wow...beautifully said, and honored and flattered!
This comment right here!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The actor (and sometimes dancer when he shoulda known better) in me was crying at the end of this. I really needed this today.
Same here. I was trained as a dancer but due to joint and muscle issues and dance injuries I can't really dance the way I used to. Forget jumps or anything that puts stress in my right leg (sciatica, hip arthritis, and 2 years ago this June I blew out my ACL). The dancer in me lives and I get all excited and wrapped up in the music and forget to take it easy. Then I end up in pain for days. Lol
my heart was racing the whole time....so wonderful!!!!
What a fun video! Reminds me of back in the 80's when I was in high school. My mom took me on an overnight to Portland, Maine to see A Chorus Line. I knew all the songs by heart. I loved the performance! The next morning some of the dancers showed up to eat breakfast in the dining room of our hotel. It was frosting on the best seven layer cake ever. Thanks for reminding me.
Such talent. It makes me so sad that the world is missing such fabulousness.
My all-time favorite show in my life!!! This was wonderful! Thank you!
This is still my favorite Broadway show! Thank you so much for starting my day with this joyful video. You are all wonderful!
I can’t love this enough. I want to dance!! No fair!😁
I could watch this all day. Thank you!
Thank u so much!!
They is so GREAT!!!!!!!
[A Chorus Line] is the best musical piece and a dream that will last forever!
Brilliant. So much talent. Thank you for this! Makes me so happy. 😃😀😄😁😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you for posting this! I miss watching all my favorite dancers and actors on Broadway! I can hardly wait until this thing is over. God Bless You All. Stay safe!
Absolutely Wonderful! Well done to you All ✨🕺🏻👯♀️🤸♂️🧸🎶🌟
Saw the original tour in 1976 (with many of the original cast), watching from the 2nd balcony of the Curran Theatre. 30 years later I saw this company (with the cover for Mark) at the Curran again (pre-Broadway), though I fortunately could afford great orchestra seats. So fun to see y'all looking so good!
I totally loved this! Every dancer is so full of joy!
Sooooo Freaken AWESOME. What good sports the cast of the Revival are to do this. THANK YOU ALL! Great to see all again.
Best Musical Ever!
This is so wonderful, thank you for sharing. This is FUN, which we all need so much right now. But it is also a reminder of everything that ACL is about - that dancers are real people, with personalities and lives outside of the theater. And some of them are still whipping off double-pirouettes, and others are having babies, and they are all sharing so generously a little bit of themselves. Thank you for the beautiful concept, amazing editing (wow!), and for giving all of us a glimpse into your lives and your love for dance and performing. Now I have to go re-watch Every Little Step. ❤️
Thank you!! I LOVED your "Baby it's Covid Outside" video!!! sooo good!!!!
You did such an amazing job editing this video. I can only imagine how much work that was. How were you able to do it so brilliantly technically and yet with such heart?!? ❤️
@@bostonjazz80 thank you for the kind comment...my answer: I don't know how to do something without putting everything I have into it.
Thank you artists; theater artists, dance artists. To see real choreography, from the stage production, reminds me of the time when--not even three months ago- I went to Broadway (and off) to see a show . And the editors and tech folks. Thanks. Here's hoping the live theatrical experience will return to Broadway (and off) in my lifetime. You're all beautful and it's a joy to be in quarantine with you and your kids and your pets.
Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks.
Fabulous. CHARLOTTE AND TERRANCE are so adorable. 🥰
Fabulous. Ya still got it everyone. Bless you and your families and thank you for the smile.
Made me cry..."Greg" '77-'78...
Awesome! The glass is always half full! Thank you, talented people!!!
I can't believe I missed this until now...a bright spot in an otherwise dismal quarantine! I was lucky enough to see the show in San Francisco a couple of times before you hit Broadway. Thank you to all of you for sharing this!
This has been my dream show for probably a decade, and I was about to audition for it before quarantine interfered. This is everything I needed right now! Thank you for putting it together with Jeffrey!
Whew I'm exhausted! So much great energy!
Thank you for putting a HUGE smile on my face.
I love their kids in the background! They’re talented people and also parents which is a talent itself! This was soooo entertaining!!!!!
OMG I'm crying. ACL is forever my no.1 show.
Mine too! It was my very first Broadway show.
Wonderful! Such physical and emotional energy! And it was launched on 3/31 which is my birthday; we were supposed to be in Cuba but, needless to say, the trip was canceled. So here I am in New York. As a former "Broadway Brat," an ardent fan of "A Chorus Line" who saw the original production three times, and knew someone in the revival, for me this is a belated birthday gift! Thank you one and all - and the same to your beautiful children. You've created a masterpiece. Be well, keep dancing, and stay safe!
Wish I had a home like these people, and energy to do anything!
I find it really fascinating (and awesome) to see the swings from a show about people who would normally be playing swings or ensemble members. 🙂
Terrific. I was so fortunate to see both the original Broadway production in 1975 and the revival 36 years later just after it opened. My parents were theater lovers, and having seen Follies, Company and 1776--original casts all--as a teenager, I knew from the opening number--who can forget the sight of the cast surging forward and flashing their pictures after that momentary blackout--we were in for a special evening. And when the emotional punch at the end left us drained--who made the show and who didn't--the indescribable curtain call was simply...indescribable. I didn't think I'd ever see anything like it again, and I was right--until the revival brought back the tingle of the original. So, thank you ACL revival cast for giving us a connection so needed during these times. And, if I may, you still look great doing that amazing opening number.
LOVED IT! Though I was not blessed with the body structure to dance in this way, I am a dancer in my heart. I saw Chorus Line off Broadway in Wheeling, WV and have watched Chorus Line the Movie so many times, the VHS almost wore out - NOW I have the DVD AND own it on whatever format I have it on!
Experiencing dancers dancing gives those of us who don't dance a sense that we too can dance - it seems so effortless... though we know the truth of the effort that goes into a dancer's training. I see glimpses of that in my granddaughter, Haleigh, who IS a dancer! Dancing is a Gift from God and I and all those who are blessed to watch you share that gift, thank each and every one of you for DANCING! and SHARING THE JOY you experience when you DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!!!
Every last one of you: amazing. 💕
I absolutely love love love this!!! Thank you for spreading the joy! Much needed and appreciated.
Just wonderful!!!!! MANY, MANY THANKS for making & posting this video!!! It lifted my quarantined spirits so much!!!!!
Awesome.....just loved it ❤️. Thanks for sharing 🎉👏😍
I love every single thing about this! This captures the spirit of this show as I see it. I saw the 3rd preview performance at the Public Theatre in April 1975 (April 18th? 19th?). I was 9. Always a favorite show.
Soooo neat!!!!!! Artists becoming real people!!!! Thank you!
Love this soooo much! Tears of joy! Thanks for brightening my day!
My favorite musical. Thank you all for the hard work in pulling this together and giving all of us such joy!!!! Have watched it 3 times and will do so again. PS the dancing was great!
Brava! Bravo! The Audition is a fantastic way to enjoy everyone's performance! ❤️
God that made me sooooo happy!!! Thank you all for putting a huge smile on my face!!! Love A Chorus Line!!!
Thank you for this ! I was in theater school when this movie came out and was on Broadway. It made my day. Thank you so much.♥️
FANTASTIC!!! One a dancer, always a dancer!!!
Thank you. Still my favorite musical after all these years. (I was lucky enough to see the original B-way cast in 1976......and then multiple iterations afterward). Glad to see everyone still has their moves...…!!
Thanks. Loved this, the pure joy of it in every location, with all the current life surrounding these dancers.
I like how the baby looks amazed at 2:40.
' I really need this job'. Great fun video. My all time favorite musical.
Sweet and lovely....YAY y'all...Stay Safe and let's get through this...
LOVE THIS!! Once a dancer ALWAYS a dancer.. Terrance was hilarious ar the end (Oops my back! I am too old for this shiggidy!! LOL 😁) Needed this smile "quarantine is no joke#
OH MY GOD, I LOVE you dancers! I saw the original production on Broadway many times. This ROCKS. Thank you so much!
Beautiful 😭😭god bless broadway’s talented dancers!
I LOVE it!! I didn't realize I knew so many people from this cast from back in my performing days!
Thank you so much! A CHORUS LINE was my first Broadway show that I saw live!
Thank you. I wish Chorus Line would tour in Orlando again before I die.
Thinking of my dear friend Donn Simione (original Broadway production touring company) who would have loved this. RIP Donn (and Michael Bennett).
What higher compliment can one offer to such a wonderful and joyous offering than that you made me want to grab my walker and DANCE!!
Outstanding! Great fun to see everyone working out. Thank you 5, 6, 7, 8!
This is beautiful! I loved this revival -- still so grateful I got to see it.
Made me cry, love you so much and a happy way but made me think about all the chances that I didn't take and all the wonderful things that could have happened if I just tried a little bit harder...
I have always wanted to dance. A little late now but gosh, you all energize me so much! Thank you, it was GREAT!!!!
Terrence Mann grabbing his back was classic!
I love this so much!! I’m playing Judy in my university’s currently “paused” production...we were supposed to open last month and I’m really missing this show. I grew up listening to the revival cast album, and your Judy has been a huge inspiration of mine through this process 💜 thank you for the reminder to keep sharing the love and to get up and dance it out in quarantine 🥰
clairelundin so sweet of you to say! Thank you!
Wonderful! Once a dancer, always a dancer.
SHECKY AND THE CAST ARE ALWAYS OUTSTANDING. THEY LOVE WHAT THEY DO THAT'S THE REASON
THEY ALWAYS GIVE 110% TO EVERYTHING THEY DO AND ALWAYS GET AND APPRECIATE A BIG APPLAUSE.
LUV YOU ALL Shecky's DAD
Thank you so much for this! Everyone looked like they are having fun! Only saw the oruginal movie but remembered all the characters. I will be watching this daily
A Chorus Line was the very first musical I ever saw live when my I was in my teens. I absolutely loved it! This brought back so many wonderful memories. Thanks so much for this wonderful video!
a chorus line is my all time favorite musical!! this really just made my whole day!!
Absolutely love it! I never had the opportunity to see the show live but I remember seeing the movie and dancing, or trying to, for endless hours to the soundtrack and this number was both my nemesis and my favourite. I may have to try it again.
This video really raised my spirits. Look forward to seeing shows on Broadway and Off Broadway in the near future. New York, New York!!!
Good danceing all of you. Can’t wait to see a live show again..