Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 9
Fascinating and insightful, Every Little Step is a thoroughly engrossing behind the scenes look at Broadway performers.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 2
Fascinating and insightful, Every Little Step is a thoroughly engrossing behind the scenes look at Broadway performers.
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The central premise of the Kirkwood-Dante-Kleban-Hamlisch Broadway musical A Chorus Line is by now overly familiar, examining as it does the 17 actors auditioning for spots in a chorus line on the Great White Way. Recalling Donn Pennebaker's Moon Over Broadway and other similar efforts, documentarians Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern's film Every Little Step travels behind the scenes of the auditions for 2006 revival of A Chorus Line to investigate the goings-on and the interplay among the
Apr 17, 2009 Wide
Oct 13, 2009
$1.5M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (94) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (9) | DVD (1)
It's all up there on the screen in this impassioned, exhilarating documentary. They want to dance for you. It's what they did for love.
I was thrilled and moved by Every Little Step, despite the abundance of bad dancing pouring out of reality television these days, because it's about the real thing, and offers marvellous insights into of the process of creating a Broadway hit.
Every Little Step is a terrific documentary history lesson about how Michael Bennett rounded up a bunch of New York singing, acting dancers, interviewed them and found out what they 'did for love,' back in January of 1974.
You can't judge A Chorus Line by its film version; it's one of the lousiest movie musicals ever. But you can assess the stage original's influence by the wonderful new documentary Every Little Step.
Fans of choreographer Michael Bennett's blockbuster, which broke new ground when it opened in 1975, will find much to love here.
Every Little Step is an uncommonly tender and observant documentary.
The documentary, edited down from some 400 hours, is packed with crowd-pleasing moments.
It's hard not to develop a little attraction. You'll find yourself rooting for favorites, and feeling the same elation or crushing disappointment as they do when they get the word.
Like the dancers themselves, this documentary has heart.
The tights and the hairstyles may have changed a lot in 30 years, but the desperation and the elation remain the same.
Dedicated theater rats might enjoy it, but it's too one-dimensional to qualify as a singular sensation.
It says nada about Broadway that hasn't been said better many times before.
Broadway fans -- as well as aficionados of A Chorus Line -- should get a kick out of Every Little Step.
A film that's a bit Chorus Line and a bit American Idol, with hopefuls finding themselves auditioning for the very people who created the landmark show in which they wish to appear.
Feeds our ever-growing need to root for talented performers seeking that proverbial big break.
All the dancers who move towards the final cut are so good that the line between success and failure seems cruelly arbitrary and the disappointment of those who don't make it is acute. But nobody's giving up.
A straightforward boosterish movie about the glory of musicals.
We're left with a deep sense of admiration for those who are prepared to face rejection routinely in pursuit of a dream.
There is something piercingly affecting about this film and it's mainly to do with how much this particular musical means to the dancers and singers whose lives it represents.
There are still plenty of engrossing aspects to the film, moments in the audition process that demonstrate the complexity of performance.
This fascinating American made documentary tracks a disparate group of dancers trying out for a range of roles in a Broadway revival of the iconic stage musical A Chorus Line.
Just as powerful as the original musical -- keeps you glued to the fascinating and heartbreaking audition process.
Fantastic behind-the-scenes sing/dance documentary which gives much more insight into the audition process than all those TV shows.
A Chorus Line is about how hard it is to get that dream gig on Broadway, and this documentary looks into that as well, as thousands audition for a turn in the 2008 revival of A Chorus Line. You watch as casting directors make the tough decision, actors and dancer and singer oh my are cast asunder or make their big
July 21, 2010Super Reviewer
Very intriguing backstage look at the entire audition process for a revival of "A Chorus Line". It's unafraid to show that it's a tough business trying for that break to what is hopefully the big time.
April 17, 2010
Super Reviewer
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