for those who never saw a chorus line onstage and their only exposure to the story be this film and this film be ok a movie musical and nothing special and just ok. i have see the show on broadway 4 time and even audition for a touring company of the show once and for someone who pretty much memorize the original production and the 1985 film version be so dreadful on so many level that i do not even know where to begin . first of all and for those who have never audition for a theatrical production and let me assure you that irl when you audition for a play and the director and producer and and choreographer never ask personal question and do not give a crap about why you want to become a performer . a real theatrical audition and whether it be for a play or a musical and rarely take more than five minute . if youre audition a a dancer and you get show a 64 bar dance combination once and you do it and and then they decide immediately whether youre in or out . michael bennett original concept of the show be to flesh out the life of dancer and introduce to the uninitiated the passion for perform and why so many sacrifice so much for so little . the play be about these dancer . first of all and director richard attenborough take so much focus off the dancer by beef up the cassie or zach relationship and by cast michael douglas a zach . in the play and you never see zach . he be just a voice in the back of the theater and his relationship with cassie be barely touch upon . cassie show in the cab in traffic try to get to the audition and upstairs talk to larry ( a character who be not even in the play ) be all add for the movie and take so much focus off what the story be about . major musical number be cut or rethink . the opening number in the play i hope i get it show all of the dancer do a jazz and ballet combination and then people get eliminate . in the movie they jam three hundred dancer onstage together and show them in closeup to disguise the fact that they have cast people in the film who can not dance ( can you say audrey lander ) . goodbye 12 and goodbye 13 and hello love and a brilliant vocal exploration of these dancer childhood jaundiced memory be rework a surprise and surprise mainly a vehicle for the late gregg burge a richie . the show most famous song and what i do for love which in the show be a touching allegory sung by the entire cast about what they give up to dance and become just another standard love song in the film and perform tiredly by a miscast allyson reed a cassie . jeffrey hornaday choreography for the film be dull and unimaginative and doesn not hold a candle to michael bennett original staging and when youre make a movie about dancer and the choreography have to be special . there be a couple of good dancer in the film and the previously mention gregg burge a richie and michelle johnston a bebe and and janet jones a judy and but they be hardly give the opportunity to show what they can do and yet audrey lander and who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time and be give one of the show best number and dance 10 and look 3. i will admit that the finale and one be dazzle and but you have to wait almost two hour for that . i would say that if you never saw a chorus line onstage and this film might be worth a look and but if you be a devotee of the original broadway musical . be afraid . be very afraid .