In late June, as part of its 2006 season, the Bankstown Musical Society presented a production of ‘A Chorus Line’, one of the all-time great Broadway musicals, at its home base, Bankstown Town Hall.
It was a large scale production that the Company should be very proud of. They did this great musical justice with a fine production.

Richard Blomfeld helmed the production, assisted by a creative team that included Musical Director Peter Hayward, Lighting Designer Greg Smith, and Choreographer Edward Rooke.
Blomfeld had a large cast to manage, just shy of thirty actors walked the boards. Mark Simpson played the hard working Zach, given the difficult job of choosing a mere eight dancers for his show from the huge pool of hopefuls. Megan Motto played Zach’s ex lover, a talented actress, down on her luck, who has come to the point where she is looking for work even amongst chorus lines.

The cast performed the small character bits, Zac’s mini interviews, with style, and the musical numbers were performed with conviction and humour.
My favourite numbers on the night were Janet Cairncross, Victoria Wildie and Katerina Vigh’s rendition of the delicate ‘At the Ballet’, Megan Motto’s touching delivery of ‘The Music and The Mirror’, and Romina Cavagnola’s rendition, along with the Company, of the show’s big hit number ‘What I did for Love’.

It’s a fitting note to end on…because for love is exactly how the cast and crew did this Chorus Line.