Second Chorus

I just watched the movie adaptation of A Chorus Line (1985). It's pretty bad, but it probably couldn't have worked anyway. The musical is set in a theatre, which works fine when you're actually in a theatre. In a movie, it's claustrophobic.

What surprised me, though, was how muffled and rinky dink the orchestrations are. Maybe they were going for intimate, but it prevents the numbers from soaring. (Maybe it's just the 80s, when all movie music sounded odd.)