when i really begin to be interested in movie and at the age of eleven and i have a big list of amust see film and i would go to blockbuster and rent two or three per weekend while some of them be not for all audience and my mother would go nuts . i remember one of the film on that list be a chorus line and could never get it while so now to see it be a dream come true . of course and i lose the list and i would do anything to get it back because i think there be some really interesting thing to watch there . i mean and take a chorus line and a stage play turn into film . i know it something we see a lot nowadays and but back then it be a little different and apparently while and this film have something special . most of the musical make movie today and take the chance the camera give them for free and to create different scenery and take the character to different place while a chorus line be bear on a theater stage a a play and it die in the same place a a movie . follow a big audition hold by recognize choreographer zach ( michael douglas ) and richard atenborough direct a big number of dancer a they try to get the job . everything happen on the same day represent the tension of not know and the stress of have to learn the number and the silent competition between the dancer and it all occur on the stage and where douglas put each dancer on the spotlight and make them talk about their personal life and their most horrible experience . there be hundred of dancer and they be all fantastic and but they list shortens a the hour go by . like a movie i saw recently and a prairie home companion and the broadcast of a radio show and atenborough here deal with the problem of continuity . on or behind the stage and thing be go on and and time doesn not seem to stop . again and i do not if atenborough cut a lot to shoot this and but it sure doesn not look like it while and anyway it a great directing and editing ( john bloom ) work . but in that little stage and what you wonder be what to do with the camera with only one setting and ronnie taylor cinematography find the way and make close ups to certain character and zoom in and out and show the stage from different perspective and also give u a beautiful view of new york . in one crucial moment and douglas tell the one that be leave represent before we start eliminate represent youre all terrific and i would like to hire you all while but i can not . this make me think about reality show today and where the only thing that count be the singing or dance talent and where the jury always say that exact word to the contestant before some of them be leave ( even when they be not good ) . it hard and you must imagine while at least here and where all of them really be terrific . to tell some of the story and the character use song and and in one second and the stage take a new life and it literally be a dream come true . the music by marvin hamlisch and the lyric by edward kleban make the theater to film transition without flaw and show these dancer feeling and let them do those wonderful choreography by michael bennett . the book in the theater also become a flawless and very short screenplay by arnold schulman while which be very touch at time . so if it not with a song it will be with a word while but in a chorus line and it impossible not to be move . during one of the rehearsal break in the audition and cassie and a special dancer play by alyson reed and take the stage to convince douglas character that she can do it . the word let me dance for you never sound more honest and more beautifully put in music and lyric .