Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish to refute specific misunderstandings and false statements that appeared in the editorial. First, we never sponsored the Wellesley College Blind Date Banquet. Second, the production of A Chorus Line, which was attacked as an "unnecessary networking of a particular minority," provided much needed opportunities for Asian Americans who seldom get the chance to act. Asians are usually typecast and, thus, never get parts in traditional plays. The production finally allowed them to express their dramatic and musical talents...
...Asian-American, but I did take great offense to Mr. Hsia's statement that "A Chorus Line is not an appropriate script for an all-Asian cast." According to whom? Just because the Broadway cast is not all-Asian, does that mean that it cannot be adapted by an all-Asian cast? A crucial element to the "Chorus Line" production, which I happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line," the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training...
...help the audience wade through the play's thicket of historical references is The Common Man. Part Greek Chorus, part Johnny Carson, The Common Man (Elliot Thomson) not only appears in every other scene but also has some of the best lines in the play. Donning the guise of a dozen different rogues, Thomson acts in true Rodney Dangerfield fashion, claiming he doesn't get any respect as the resident commoner. Thomson, however, has no problems gaining the audience's respect. With his sassy sarcasm and bemused wit he has the audience at his feet...
...come. People may have gone crazy over there, they seemed to say, but here, here in America, there is still safety. Even that sunny musical, Babes in Arms, ends in a curious and, in retrospect, quite poignant, plea for peace. "We send our greetings to friendly nations," sings the chorus, led by Garland and Rooney. "We may be Yanks, but we're your relations. Drop your sabers, we're all going to be good neighbors here in God's country...
Unfortunately, it seems that Harvard's minority organizations are heading in that direction. This weekend, Asian students from Harvard and Tufts will collaborate on a production of A Chorus Line. Not only is the script inappropriate for an all-Asian cast (recall Christine Wang, who is "never wang, always right"), but the project is an unnecessary networking of a particular minority...