Sex ed has not changed all that much though, Mr. Bennett’s humiliating experience as his own night after night for two years. In “On the Line,” a 1990 book about the making of the show, Cameron Mason, the original Mark, vented his frustration at having to describe Mr. Mark’s story - how, with his father’s medical textbook, he misdiagnosed his wet dream as gonorrhea - was inspired by an incident from Mr. McGill was even younger, 17, when he won his first part on Broadway, in the 2004 production of “La Cage aux Folles.” They talked about the monologue and about the character of Mark.Īt 20 Mark was the baby at the audition, but Mr. His uncle, Danny Herman, was a replacement for Mark during the show’s original run, and taught Paul how to jazz-dance when he was growing up in the Pittsburgh suburbs.
McGill is himself the youngest member of the cast, but he isn’t new to show business.
“I watched ‘Peyton Place,’ ” Paul McGill said, referring to a reference made by his character, Mark, the youngest dancer on the line. For an actor who was born in 1987, some research was required. And how could anyone but a 20-something dancer with dreams of stardom really know what these characters are going through? Six of the 19 principal performers in the revival spoke about their characters, their own stories and what has changed about growing up and getting to Broadway.Īmong things that have not stayed the same: pop culture. Collected and given shape under the direction of Michael Bennett, then a 30-year-old star choreographer, the result was a kind of musical documentary, a portrait of an industry at a certain moment in time.īut it was just as much a portrait of youth and romanticism. In many cases the dancers’ stories went directly into the script, verbatim. The tales in “A Chorus Line” are real, after all, based on transcripts from the stream-of-consciousness reflections of a group of dancers who gathered in the winter of 1974 to talk about their lives, and the threats to their livelihood. How could they possibly understand what it was like to be a dancer in 1975, when Times Square was a place tourists avoided the gay rights movement was just six years old no one had heard of AIDS and “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The Lion King” were not even in a New York actors’ vocabulary? So it might seem that the stories of aspiring dancers would be a stretch for the young actors in the revival, which opens on Oct. And some were just learning to talk when it closed in 1990. MANY of the performers in the new revival of “A Chorus Line” were not born when the original opened in 1975.
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