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• The song "Dance 10, Looks 3" was originally called "Tits and Ass", but it was changed so that the audience would not see that title listed in their programs. The logic was that if it were a surprise during the show, it would get a better audience reaction.
  
  
• Kelly Bishop is probably best known to today's audiences as Rory's grandmother on TV's "Gilmore Girls" (2000) and as the mother of Jennifer Grey's character in Dirty Dancing (1987). Kelly Bishop won a Tony award for her performance as Sheila in the original Broadway production of "A Chorus Line" (under the name Carole Bishop).
  
  
• Audrey Landers left a successful recurring role on the TV show "Dallas" (1978) to take a role in this film.
  
  
• Because of her relative inexperience, Audrey Landers is generally not seen in wide shots of the entire cast dancing, but is inserted in close-ups. A dance double is clearly seen in the opening number, the "Surprise" number, and long shots of "One".
  
  
• Pam Klinger (Maggie) and Charles McGowan (Mike) met during the production, became a couple and eventually married.
  
  
• Roxann Dawson's film debut.
  
  
• The original Broadway production of "A Chorus Line" opened at the Shubert Theater in New York on July 25, 1975, won the 1976 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Book and Score and ran for 6,137 performances, setting a record. That record was later broken by "Cats", which ran for 7,485 performances.
  
  
• The stage version of 'A Chorus Line' is the fourth longest running show on Broadway as of December 2008.
  
  
• Michael Bennett, the original Broadway choreographer and director, was involved with the production at an early stage of development, but he left because the producers were unwilling to give him the level of creative control he desired. He advised producer Cy Feuer not to put the film's main focus on the relationship between Zack and Cassie.
  
  
• Universal Pictures held an option on the film rights for five years but finally put it in turnaround when they failed to come up with a workable idea on how to adapt it.
  
  
• A Chorus Line (1985) won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1976. Only six musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize in drama - one per decade from the 1930s to the 1990s. They are as follows: 'Of Thee I Sing (1972) (TV)' from the 1930s, South Pacific (1958) from the 1940s, Fiorello from the 1950s, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) from the 1960s, A Chorus Line (1985) from the 1970s, 'Sunday in the Park with George (1986) (TV)' from the 1980s, and Rent (2005) from the 1990s.
  
  

• SPOILER: Originally, in the Broadway play, Cassie didn't get the job. After a few performances they changed it, and since then always got a standing ovation.
  
  

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