Chorus line
Theatrical poster from 1900 showing an early chorus line.
A chorus line is a large group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre. Sometimes, singing is also performed.
Chorus line dancers in Broadway musicals and revues have been referred to by slang terms such as ponies, gypsies and twirlies. Ballet uses the term corps de ballet. A chorus girl or chorine is a female performer in a chorus line (or in a chorus), and the word "chorine" is not to be confused with chlorine.
Musicals
A modern chorus line
- A Chorus Line (1975) - centers on a chorus line audition in Broadway
Famous chorus lines
- Gaiety Girls (started in England during the 1890s)
- The Rockettes (U.S. act founded in 1925)
- Tiller Girls (international act starting in the 1890s)
- Ziegfeld girls
Famous performers
Performers who started out dancing in chorus lines include:
- Josephine Baker[1]
- Lucille Ball[2]
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Joan Blondell
- Betty Boothroyd[3]
- Louise Brooks[1]
- Ada "Bricktop" Smith
- Karin Booth
- Patricia Barry
- Ruth Chatterton
- June Clyde
- Ellen Corby
- Joan Crawford[4]
- Bette Davis
- Constance Dowling
- Doris Dowling
- Marion Davies
- Marlene Dietrich
- Myrna Dell
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Myrna Loy
- Alice Faye
- Rhonda Fleming
- Paulette Goddard[1]
- Betty Grable
- Rita Hayworth
- June Haver
- June Havoc
- Audrey Hepburn
- Jeanette MacDonald
- Miriam Hopkins
- Lena Horne[1]
- Adele Jergens
- Dorothy Jordan
- Ruby Keeler[4]
- Phyllis Kennedy
- Dorothy Mackaill
- Shirley MacLaine
- Jessie Matthews
- Virginia Mayo
- Florence Mills
- Marilyn Monroe
- Vera Miles
- Aida Pierce
- Jean Porter
- Ginger Rogers
- Ruth Roman
- Amzie Strickland
- Barbara Stanwyck[1]
- Inger Stevens
- Joan Shawlee
- Gwen Verdon
- Tyra Vaughn
- Jane Wyman
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cantu, Maya. American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy, p. 49 (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
- ↑ https://www.fentonhistorycenter.org/special-features/lucille-ball/timeline-of-lucille-balls-life-career/
- ↑ "Profile: 'Call me Madam'". BBC News. 2000-10-23. Retrieved 2012-09-09.
- 1 2 Cantu, Maya. American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from Irene to Gypsy, p. 18 (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
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