What’s still wonderful about the show is the staging: the way the characters get singled out of the line-up by the autocratic Zach and stripped to their psychological skins in front of the audience; the solo songs and monologues with the other dancers doggedly rehearsing in the background; the awful moments of intimacy when Zach clears the stage to grill Cassie and Paul. And the triumphant closer, when each of them can claim a place as the one singular sensation.
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