A Chorus Line - Broadway (2025?)

2025 will be 17 years since the last revival closed. I don’t think people are going to be turned off by the original staging which is still one of the most brilliant things to have ever been on Broadway.
Plus I can’t imagine them saying “To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking musical, here’s a new take on it”.

I mean this is one show I pray Ivo never touches lol

I think it would be quite fascinating (as an experiment) to do an updated version that reflects contemporary problems for the dancers, whether it's (mental) health issues, racism/discrimination or social media stuff - not sure if this is still a thing, but I remember that some years ago, performers were sometimes excplicitly chosen because they had a huge social media following in the hope this would serve as marketing for the show, but maybe producers have by now realized that this can also backfire. There's also regular upheaval around disappointed fans turning against "their" faves on social media for some perceived misdeed or other.

So I think it would be nice to hear fresh stories - but I realize that this would be a fully different show then. If the original is staged, it should be staged "as is" and not be tinkered with. I do wonder though if people would still be willing to pay full Broadway whack for a show set on an empty stage these days.

That sort of reworking should never be performed as A Chorus Line. It could be Another Chorus Line or A New Chorus Line.

But it always angers me when radical reworkings are sold under the same title as the original.

And Broadway audiences have seen bare bones productions in recent years. Mr J Lloyd isn't one for sets and his productions have sold.

There's only Baayork Lee holding the flame to the original production now - with Bob Avian's passing a few years ago she's the only one that's allowed to recreate Michael Bennett's choreography, at least in a 1st class replica production.

But what do you mean by reinventing?

It is what it is. A snapshot 0f Broadway at a certain point in history based on verbatim accounts from real people.

Sure, the aesthetic can be tweaked. The choreo changed. Reorchestration, of course.

But that doesn't change the fundamentals of the piece.

What sort of reinvention are you after?

What benefit would that have over something that just honours the script and the score?

No one has argued that you only have to present it by recreating the original production. New productions are possible and desirable.

But how far does reinvention go before it ceases to be what the authors created?

Whatever the case, a revival would do well I think. The 2006 revival recouped in only 19 weeks. Chorus Line barely has a set and few costumes so it isn't insanely expensive to run weekly. A short run to celebrate "50 years"