Greenville Theatre opens 100th season with ‘A Chorus Line’

Greenville Theatre celebrates its centennial year with a classic show about the ecstatic joys and enormous challenges of creating musical theater.

“A Chorus Line,” running Sept. 12-28, is perhaps the ultimate musical about musicals.

“It’s a perfect show to open our 100th season,” said Max Quinlan, producing artist director of Greenville Theatre.

The theater’s last staging of “A Chorus Line,” in 1986, still holds the record for the longest-running production in the theater’s history, Quinlan said.

The story centers on several dancers auditioning for a Broadway show, with glimpses into the personalities of the performers, their past lives, anxieties and inspirations.

Featuring music by Marvin Hamlisch, the show spotlights such Broadway standards as “One,” “At the Ballet,” “I Hope I Get