Every Little Step Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo
Genres: Theater
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The central premise of the Kirkwood-Dante-Kleban-Hamlisch Broadway musical +A Chorus Line is by now overly familiar, examining as it does the 17 actors auditioning for spots in a chorus line on the Great White Way. Recalling Donn_Pennebaker's Moon_Over_Broadway and other similar efforts, documentarians Adam_Del_Deo and James_D._Stern's film Every Little Step travels behind the scenes of the auditions for 2006 revival of +A Chorus Line to investigate the goings-on and the interplay among the hopefuls. The film thus establishes a neat corollary between the events of the play itself and the offstage experiences of the aspiring tryouts. On top of this, Stern and Del_Deo work in a layer that pertains to the original genesis of the show, and its evolution from an idea by Michael_Bennett, who recorded an ensemble of dancers speaking confessionally and used that as the basis for everything else. Here, the filmmakers play those original tapes back, on-camera, thus resurrecting old ghosts; score composer Marvin_Hamlisch also turns up and revokes the past, courtesy of a revealing and racy little nugget about the history of the tune "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three." Above all else, the film works in extensive footage of the auditions themselves, on songs such as "At the Ballet" and "I Can Do That" -- thus interweaving an aura of suspense throughout the narrative over who will eventually wind up in the production itself. The title of the documentary, of course, is a reference to the lyric of the seminal tune "One" ("One singular sensation, every little step she takes"). Nathan Southern, Rovi
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