i saw the original chorus line on broadway god know how many time and felt the passion and despair and joy come from this live experience in the theater . michael bennett know he would have to re imagine chorus for the screen but could never figure out how to do it . if the man who come up with the show be stump that should answer your question . there be some show that be simply make to be see live with an audience . however and richard attenborough fresh of the musical work of ghandi and dance with animal in doctor doolittle end up direct this film which bore little to no resemblance to the stage show . horrible song be add ( surprise . surprise . ) and great song be drop or give to other character ( which do not make sense ) . michael douglas be mis cast . people that couldn not dance try to act and there be the sexy lander woman who couldn not sing and act and or dance i guess she have just finish be ghandi wife . the dance by jeffrey hornaday look like nothing more than schlock from flashdance reject and nothing work . i sit there stun at how something so riveting and emotional could be drain to nothing . if you truly love this show and it be come back to broadway in 2006 see it but do not think that the long running musical event that be a chorus line have any thing at all to do with this film .