Meaglia plays a sassy, indelicate dancer who couldn’t get dancing jobs, despite her talent, until she had plastic surgery.

It was a challenge to squeeze what can normally be months of preparation into three weeks’ time, but incredibly rewarding,” Gianna Meaglia, FCLC ’17, said. “I’ve never put on a show with such little time and rehearsal. I think it’s important for the audience to understand why people go through and it shows a lot about why it was specifically important to each person who was auditioning.” Amanda Jean, FCLC ’18, who played Connie in the musical, added, “I wanted the audience to get what makes the entertainment business so important and to realize how hard it is because it may seem very easy from an audience perspective, but it really is a lot harder than it looks. The fact that the cast has pulled together and done a whole show in less than a month is the coolest thing.”ĭespite the hard process of pulling the musical together, Mastrangelo, Vittorini and the rest of crew put up the show, and their hard work paid off. Vittorini said, “Our biggest feat was that we did the entire show in a month from start to finish. Due to inclement weather, all involved endured the process of putting a cast and rehearsals together with little to no time to spare. Both Mastrangelo and Vittorini, with the help of the cast and crew worked to put together this ensemble-based show in less than a month. Often, it is seen as cheesy, for lack of a better word.”Ĭhristina Mastrangelo and Alexandra Vittorini, FCLC ’15, the co-directors of “A Chorus Line,” are also the President and Vice-President of the Splinter Group. It is a very important, and often, underlooked side of theater. One of the directors of “A Chorus Line,” Christina Mastrangelo, FCLC ’16, said, “Fordham does not have a musical theater program yet, so we wanted to bring that to our audience.

The show has been one of the most prosperous on Broadway, garnering numerous Tony wins, in addition to its own film adaptation. As the musical progresses, each character sings about their past experience in order for the director to get to know them. “A Chorus Line” revolves around a group of dancers auditioning to be in the chorus of a Broadway show. Although those involved were under a tight time constraint, the cast and crew successfully pulled through to have the show go on. In Pope Auditorium, the Splinter Group opened the curtains to Fordham College at Lincoln Center’s (FCLC) first musical in two years: “A Chorus Line.” The musical was performed on March 2.

Back on the chorus line