A Chorus Line
Presented by the 2023 Graduating Class and select first year students of Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre.
When: 28 September - 1 October 2023
Where: Scott Theatre, University of Adelaide
A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, Zach, the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves. Discomfort opens into revelation, confession leads to redemption, and within the bright, outwardly homogenous chorus, the audience begins to see each dancer’s individuality. From Cassie, the star who just needs the “music and the mirror and the chance to dance,” to Val, a small-town girl with a brand-new big-town body, to Mike, who took his sister’s place in dance class, saying “I can do that.”
Based on real Broadway dancers’ stories, as told to fellow dancer and choreographer Michael Bennett, A Chorus Line is funny, heartbreaking, and refreshingly honest.
Meet the...
Creatives
Director: Matthew Hyde
Choreographer: Luke Alleva
Music Director: Martin Cheney
Lighting Designer: Chris Snape
Cast
Al Deluca: Mat Monti
Bebe Benzenheimer: Phoebe Surman
Bobby Mills: Ryan Murphy
Cassie Ferguson: Sophie Tzioumis
Connie Mackenzie: Chloe Marlow
Diana Morales: Taylah Johns
Don Kerr: Cooper Everett
Gregory Gardner: Declan Feldhusen
Judy Turner: Josie Stanger-Jones
Kristine Urlich: Lilli De Nardi
Lori: Carolyn Crisp
Maggie Winslow: Angélique Diko
Mark Antony: Declan Ryan
Mike Costa: Max Walburn
Paul San Marco: Kieran Humphreys
Richie Walters: Dhuruva Padmanabhan
Sheila Bryant: Cedar-Rose Russell
Val Clark: Gracie Rowland
Zach: Ray Cullen
Butch/Ensemble: Matt Coogan
Frank/Ensemble: Matthew Geaney
Roy/Ensemble: Cobain Bradley
Tricia/Ensemble: Millicent Sarre
Vicki/Ensemble: Sophie Carmody
Ensemble
Amelia Chapman
Byron Fletcher
Jazz Garcia
Nam Hoang
Michele Kelsey
Mia Lupton
Madison Schubert
Ella Simpson
Jacinda Tsakalos