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It was, and still is, a captivating show, as witnessed by the Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre production on stage at Pleasanton’s Firehouse Arts Center through Feb. 9. Featuring an outstanding cast led by Broadway and television performer Meredith Patterson (who plays Cassie), and Lauren Bratton-Kearns, who grew up in Pleasanton (Val), “A Chorus Line” is lovingly directed by Lois Grandi, a Broadway performer in her own right, better known in the East Bay as founder and artistic director of the former Playhouse West theater company.

Like many who have made a living in musical comedy, Grandi and Patterson consider “A Chorus Line” something of a musical holy grail, simply because it tells, in their own words, the stories of those who dwell in Broadway chorus lines, In the early 1970s, as the show was being developed, the creators hosted a number of meetings with Broadway chorus dancers and encouraged tutu & pearl ballet birthday party (photo) invitation digital printable, any wording any color any age them to talk about their lives, their work, their passions, their fears and what they might do if they could no longer dance..

Their stories, massaged and altered somewhat to account for the passage of time and changes in the fabric of Broadway, still make for a compelling and dramatic show, augmented by Marvin Hamlish and Edward Kleban’s often pointed and emotional songs. The main theme running through the show is former Broadway star Cassie’s desire to return to the chorus of a musical, which is being directed by her old beau Zach (Damian Marhefka), who warns she is “dancing down” and has too much emotional attachment to return to a chorus line spot.

Patterson does a remarkable job creating the Cassie character, particularly in her showstopping second act number “The Music and the Mirror,” where she displays her passion for dance through the sterling choreography she performs, Before that, Bratton-Kearns’ Val has tutu & pearl ballet birthday party (photo) invitation digital printable, any wording any color any age a showstopper of her own in “Dance: 10; Looks: 3,” her comic, but not necessarily far from accurate, commentary on how some surgical augmentation gave her, um, a leg up on the chorus competition, And others in the cast talk about a variety of problems, from abuse to adjustment to various out-of-the-ordinary lifestyles that led them to the theater..

Nobilis performed a work by its pianist Stephen Prutsman: his Paraphrase on Themes from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” It swings between the Russian’s arching operatic melodies and his brisk dances; an artful alternation of high romance and plain tension. Prutsman, who lives in San Francisco, is a commanding player, and so are his two colleagues: violinist Ruggero Allifranchini (who is associate concertmaster of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, where Prutsman once was an artistic director) and cellist Suren Bagratuni, a widely-traveled soloist.

The easy and fiery exchanges among these three musicians carried into the program’s next piece: Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano tutu & pearl ballet birthday party (photo) invitation digital printable, any wording any color any age in C major: the “Triple Concerto.” Perhaps because Guillermo Figueroa, the program’s guest conductor, is himself an accomplished violinist, this performance of the Triple had a special chamber-like intimacy and flow, Textures were transparent, tempos flexible, The concerto is a complex construction — meshing the trio, as “soloist,” with the orchestra proper — but the piece breathed here, so naturally..

Figueroa divided the strings in the old way: first violins on the left, seconds on the right; cellos and violas in the middle; basses over on the left. Perhaps this also contributed to the performance’s many strengths: for instance, the warmth and clarity of the strings in the Allegro, arriving in waves and later building like a storm, in that quintessential Beethovenian way. There were many highlights within the trio, including Prutsman’s pearly tone and his innate sense for varying dynamics in a simple phrase. Looking nothing but relaxed, the pianist delivered with sheer authority, consistently. Allifranchini displayed his own quicksilver technique and a singing, sturdy-sweet sound. Bagratuni drew a deep golden tone from the cello; superb. His keening entrance in the Largo was another high point, though he seemed to suffer some finger fatigue midway through the finale. (His part is a notoriously difficult one.).

In any event, this was a dashing and emotional performance of the Triple; memorable, But this concert was only at its midpoint, After intermission, Prutsman returned, this time as soloist for Richard Strauss’s Berleske in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, a single-movement concerto, essentially, It is rarely played, possibly because the solo part is so absurdly difficult — a roller-coaster, muscular, glitzy and glamorous, tender and dolorous, He played it from memory, brilliantly, The piece is strange and fascinating and ought to be performed more often, Dating to 1885, it’s a kind of precursor to tutu & pearl ballet birthday party (photo) invitation digital printable, any wording any color any age Ravel’s “La Valse,” from 1920, in that it feels like a fever dream announcing the end of an era: elegant and waltzing, yet world-weary and sad, conveying a sense of decay, of decadence..

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