On the line

Call them dancers. When they arrived at a taping session led by Michael Bennett in January of 1974, all they had to do was answer a few questions about their lives. Truthfully. Some felt scared. Others felt free. Everyone realized it was the first time in their careers they had ever been asked to put their life stories on the line. And however aone they might have felt, suddenly they found an unknown community of artists, like themselves, who shared the same hopes, dreams, aspirations...On the Line is an in-depth look behind the process of creating what has been - and continues to be - one of the hottest tickets wherever, whenever it plays: A Chorus Line. Stepping forward for the first time, the original cast members now tel the stories that they didn't tell onstage - or to the press - about their commitment to and collaborative effect on the longest-running show in Broadway history. A Chorus Line changed their lives forever. And it changed an era.^ Originating in the minds of two Broadway dancers named Tony Stevens and Michon Peacock, the cumulative and communal effort of A Chorus Line became a phenomenon that won the Tony, Drama Critics Circle, Obie, and Drama Desk awards, and th