in a Mexican family where Spanish was the only language spoken until he was in his teens. For any audience member that sees the show, one of those people they’ll see onstage is someone they will connect with.” “Over the years I’ve grown to associate more with different characters because of where I am in my life. “It’s all about wanting to be loved and accepted, and we all want that,” he said. Their confessional songs include worries about aging, their looks, their sexuality, their passion for dance and their fear of failure.
Many sing and dance their responses, hoping desperately to be among the final eight chosen for the parts. After the first cut, the unseen director asks each performer questions about their personal lives.
She will coach the singers and conduct the orchestra.īased on taped interviews choreographer Michael Bennett recorded in 1974 with a group of New York dancers, “A Chorus Line” is set at a dancer’s audition for a musical in development a couple dozen dancers are being put through their paces. He is also re-teaming with Randi Rudolph, who served as music director in the Welk show. Guerrero said he hired back about half of the Welk cast, but to freshen things up, he has moved some of the actors into different roles. The Pulitzer Prize-winning show-within-a-show will open a three-week run Wednesday at Vista’s Moonlight Amphitheatre. Now, as theaters reopen, Guerrero is back in the director’s chair for the first time since March 2020, directing another production of “A Chorus Line” just 10 miles away. Back in January 2020, director/choreographer Hector Guerrero mounted a production of the 1975 musical “A Chorus Line” at the Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido, which was forced to shut down two weeks early when the pandemic arrived last year.
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