What they did

Every Little Step

Crit

Speaking as someone who knew so little about A Chorus Line that I would have said it was by Bob Fosse if anyone had asked, let me just say that even if this were just a metamovie about casting the 2006 Broadway revival of the show, it would be terrific.

What makes it even better than that is that it is in part sort of a biography of the show, going back to the 100 hours of reel-to-reel tape Michael Bennett recorded with friends and fellow denizens of the musical stage, then molded into the multiple Tony winner. The result, including the presence of two of those denizens, Baayork Lee and Donna McKechnie, who played not-at-all-disguised versions of themselves when the show opened in 1976, so enlivens the underlying text that I might (might) actually be interested in seeing it, and I haven't had any interest in seeing a stage musical not directed by my daughter since Hedwig and the Angry Inch was on Jane Street.

Trailers

• The Merry Gentleman--Not only has it been way too long since I've seen Michael Keaton, but I pretty much would sit blindfolded through any movie that let me listen to Kelly Macdonald's burr for two hours.
• The Limits of Control--Yeah, looks like it could be incomprehensible, and the reviews have been unenthusiastic, but hey, Jarmusch, Swinton, Murray, John Hurt--John Hurt, fer chrissakes! What do you want?