Urn

This is the urn that Ed Kleban received for his work on A Chorus Line.

Susan S. and Vince Y. both searched for this photograph for the production.

Lehman Engel

Lehman Engel was born on September 14, 1910 in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended the University of Cincinnati, the Juliard school of music, and the Roger Sessions which were taught by Roger Huntington, an American composer. He began his conducting career with Cradle Will Rock (1937) and followed it with Call Me Mister (1946), Wonderful Town (1953), Fanny (1954), Li'l Abner (1956), Jamaica (1957), Take Me Along (1959), Do Re Mi (1960), and I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962). He was the conductor for the television version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew (1956), Twelfth Night (1957), Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town (1958), and Broadway musical version and motion picture (1959) of L'il Abner. Engle composed music for Broadway's revival of Hamlet (1939) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1948). He taught at the American Musical and Dramatic Theatre Academy and New York University. He is also an author who wrote such books as Musical Shows: Planning and Producing (1957), The American Musical Theatre (1967), Words with Music (1972), and an autobiography, This Bright Day (1974). He died on August 29, 1982 in New York City.

A Chorus Line Awards

A Chorus Line was nominated for 12 Tony Award nominations, winning nine:

• Best Musical
• Best Actress in a Musical (Donna McKechnie)
• Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Sammy Williams)
• Best Featured Actress in a Musical ( Carole "Kelly" Bishop)
• Best Director ( Michael Bennet)
• Best Musical Book (James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante)
• Best Score ( Marvin Hamlisch and Ed Kleban)
• Best Lighting Design (Tharon Musser)
• Best Choreography (Michael Bennet)

Also:

• the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the season
• The West End production won the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Musical of the Year 1976, the first year in which the awards were presented

From July 25, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre it ran 6, 137 performances, the longest running show in Broadway history, until Cats in 1997.

A Class Act (2001)

Chorus Line (1975)

Promises Promises (1968)

Michael Bennet choreographed this Neil Simon show.

Seesaw (1973)

This is actually a song book with the broadway poster as the cover. Seesaw was written, directed, and choreographed by Michael Bennet.