The Music and the Mirror: Five Cassies Celebrate Five Decades of A Chorus Line Donna McKechnie, Charlotte d’Amboise, Robyn Hurder,...

Bebe Neuwirth auditioned for A Chorus Line when she was 18 years old. After auditioning 3 times, she was cast as Louis, understudying...

Photo by Martha Swope ANN REINKING: "Michael and Bob Avian called and asked if I would be interested in doing Cassie, and I said, "Yeah,...

Photos by Paul Kolnik

Donna McKechnie and Michael Bennett met as dancers on the variety show Hullabaloo in the 1960s. In her book she recalls: “One of my partners on the show was a young dancer from Buffalo, New York, named Michael Bennett, and the two of us hit it off from the first rehearsal. Michael and I were terrific together, and as time went on, we became popular as partners. We seemed to complement each other with our dancing. Michael was a strong jumper, sexy and always dynamic. With my b