FAMILY DRAMA.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 06-NOV-06

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Charlotte d'Amboise, the Broadway veteran of such shows as "Chicago" and "Sweet Charity," stands onstage without moving for the first hour of "A Chorus Line," the revival that recently opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre. "Then I have twelve continuous minutes of solo, dancing across the whole stage," she said the other day. "I do a lot of pirouettes, high kicks, back layouts--very athletic," she said. "Waiting an hour to move is hard. I always want to rub my neck." She was standing, barefoot, in the kitchen of the town house in Harlem that she bought a...

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