I was grateful to be invited to the Sunday afternoon dress rehearsal before the 50th Anniversary Concert. Alone in the front row of the balcony, I sat watching the nuance of every interaction between performers on stage. The theater was filled with a long list of legends and stars. Consummate professionals who were mounting a world-class performance in a single day. Some actors performed their scene out of sequence—earlier in the show—so they could run down the block in time

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

A Chorus Line 1975, 76, 77 Photo by Scott Allen, 1975 This was my first Broadway show. Thank you Michael Bennett. He told me he felt real...

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