A Chorus Line in Chicago

Broadway In Chicago will present Michael Bennett's masterpiece, A Chorus Line, for a limited 3-week engagement April 14 to May 3, 2009.  The award-winning show will play Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre at 24 W. Randolph St.

A Chorus Line recouped its entire $8 million investment after only 157 performances (19 weeks) on Broadway. It broke the theatre's box office record 7 times in its first 5 months. The show ended its Broadway run on August 17, 2008 after 18 previews and 759 regular performances.

A Chorus Line reclaimed its place in the heart of Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre where it opened to rave reviews on October 5, 2006. Elysa Gardner of USA Today calls it "Exhilarating and endearing, it still has a freshness and fervency too seldom seen in contemporary musicals," while The New York Daily News exclaims "There's nothing better! The show thrills from the opening number to the glittering finale," and Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC TV hails it "An American Masterpiece.  A show for the ages." A Chorus Line is directed by its original Tony Award winning co-choreographer Bob Avian and is produced by John F. Breglio for Vienna Waits Productions.

The original production of A Chorus Line opened at the Public Theater's Newman Theatre on May 21, 1975 and transferred to Broadway's Shubert Theatre on July 25th, opening there on October 19th of that year. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Score and Book, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It ran for nearly 15 years, closing on April 28, 1990 after 6,137 performances. A Chorus Line remains the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.

Individual tickets range in price from $18 to $85. A select number of premium seats are also available. Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com