a pale shadow of a great musical and this movie suffer from the fact that the director and richard attenborough and completely miss the point of the musical and needlessly open it up and and muddy the thrust of the play . the show be about a group of dancer audition for a job in a bway musical and examine their drive and desire to work in this demanding and not always reward line of work . attenborough give u a fresh face cast of hopeful and assume that they be try to get their big break in show business and rather than present the gritty mix of character create on stage a a group of work gypsy live show to show and along with a couple of newcomer . the film have one advantage over the play and that be the opening scene and show the size of the original audition and the true scale of shrinkage down to the 16/17 on the line ( depend on how you count cassie and who be stupidly keep out of the line in the movie ) . anyone who can catch a local civic light opera production of the play will have a much rich experience than see this poorly conceive film .