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Take It from the Chorus

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Caroline Quentin , who began her career as a dancer in pantomime, takes a tour backstage to explore the highs and lows of life in the chorus through the decades. 2: From KickingLine to Ensemble. By the time of the Second World War, Britain had earned a reputation for creating lines of precision dancers, and the Tillers and the Bluebells took audiences abroad by storm. But in America a musical called
Oklahoma was about to change the perception of the chorus for ever by turning it into an ensemble with far-reaching consequences. Producer Emma Kingsley

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Caroline Quentin
Producer:
Emma Kingsley
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