Every Little Step

New thing of today, "Every Little Step". It's a documentary based on the musical "A Chorus Line" and is about the making of the play, and also the choosing of the next cast to play on Broadway.

What I thought was most interesting, is the creation of the musical "A Chorus Line". According to the documentary, choreographer Michael Bennett decided to sit down with some dancers and himself, with a tape recorder and do a very candid interview about their lives and their careers. Basically he said that he thought their lives were very interesting, and he had an idea for a musical about it. So he created one.

I love that the musical was based on real-life people and events. Also, that they interviewed some of the original dancers and people involved in the original Chorus Line. One of the people screening the dancers and actors was actually a character in the show. Connie was part of the original interviews, they created and based a character on her in the original play, and she was part of the production team that was recasting and recreating it on Broadway.

It was interesting and a little less like American Idol and a lot more like real life. It was great to know you were seeing real life stories of people and not stuff a writer made up in their head. You were seeing behind the scenes and some of the stuff that goes on to those who audition and also what goes on for the producers. I just really like the idea of how the play was created and am all the more interested now in seeing the actual musical :) Totally cool and worth checking out if you like musicals, which I do.