21 Jan 2013 'A Chorus Line' ticket giveaway
501 LIFE is giving away two tickets to Friday night’s performance of “A Chorus Line.”
Readers can be entered into a drawing for the tickets by voting for their favorite 501 LIFE cover. “501 LIFE will celebrate its fifth birthday this year and we are looking for reader input on those magazine covers that readers enjoyed the most,” said editor/publisher Sonja J. Keith. “The results will be published in an upcoming edition.”
To enter the contest, you must be signed up for one of our free e-newsletters: 501 LIFE Extra or 501 Sports Extra. To do this, click here, sign up for one or both of our free e-newsletters and the poll will be automatically sent to your inbox. Once you vote on your favorite cover, you are automatically entered to win the free tickets to "A Chorus Line." If you’re already signed up for one of our e-newsletters, click the lead photo in this week’s 501 LIFE Extra to vote.
The all new production of “A Chorus Line” – presented by 501 LIFE – is scheduled 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at the Reynolds Performance Hall as part of the University of Central Arkansas Public Appearances.
The original production opened at the Public Theater’s Newman Theatre on May 21, 1975, and later transferred to Broadway’s Shubert Theatre. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Score and Book, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
It ran for nearly 15 years, closing on April 28, 1990, after 6,137 performances.
On Sept. 29, 1983, “A Chorus Line” became the longest-running American musical in Broadway history and held this title for 28 years from 1983 to 2011 (when it was surpassed by “Chicago”).
In 2006, “A Chorus Line” reclaimed its place in the heart of Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre where it opened to rave reviews on Oct. 5, 2006. Elysa Gardner of USA Today called it “Exhilarating and endearing, it still has a freshness and fervency too seldom seen in contemporary musicals,” while The New York Daily News exclaimed “There’s nothing better! The show thrills from the opening number to the glittering finale,” and Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC TV hailed it “An American Masterpiece.”
A “show for all ages” this production will be directed and restaged by Baayork Lee.
For more information, including ticket prices, please call 501.450.3265 or visit uca.edu/Reynolds.
