ABSTRACT
The glory days of Broadway usually meant that plays and musicals would go out of town to test what they had; a route that allowed for making changes outside city limits far away from nasty gossip. That musical was A Chorus Line, so brilliantly constructed, so committed to its vision, that it was obvious to all who saw it early on that it was destined to become a classic. It took a lot of cooks to concoct this broth, and it never would have been success it ultimately became had the combination of artists not joined forces. Bennett understood the power of musical theatre in his bones (all his shows reflect that), and intrinsically was up to task of creating a musical out of nothing with A Chorus Line. So, in 2013, when the public theatre workshopped a little musical called Hamilton—just as it did A Chorus Line—it too became destined to feed the non-profit’s coffers for decades to come.
