Just one of the seven minute clips of her performance on YouTube has been viewed 17 million times in less than a week. At 47, Boyle admits on camera to never having been kissed before belting out “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables in front of Simon Cowell and other judges, and earns an emotional standing ovation for her soaring performance. However they are performing for an audience mostly comprised of their beloved cats.ĭissed as an “unkempt cat-lady-person” by Movieline yesterday, sudden Scottish sensation Susan Boyle subverted expectations in her shining moment this week on “Britain’s Got Talent.” Looking a bit like an Edie Beale, the UK audience no doubt expected little from her, as evidence in the highly-produced clip of her TV debut that has become an Internet phenomenon this week. Barrymore (as Little Edie) and Jessica Lange (as Big Edie) sing and dance a number of times in the TV movie. Not so with the HBO version, directed by Michael Sucsy.

If there was a complaint that Little Edie had with the original documentary, Al Maysles told indieWIRE three years ago, it was that the film didn’t have enough singing and dancing. Other memorable scenes from the doc are recreated, but even more insightful are the detailed flashbacks to Edie’s glory days in Manhattan in the ’30s. She can’t hide her crush on him and wonders where he’s been all her life.

The new “Grey Gardens” starts with the Maysles Brothers shooting the now famous scene featuring Little Edie hamming it up for the camera, dancing in the foyer of her home, Grey Gardens, twirling an American flag, hoping to seduce David Maysles. While leaving the theater, they seemed quite excited by the end result, with a producer calling the new film the definitive theatrical version of “A Chorus Line.”

Current and former cast members sat in the audience on Monday night watching themselves on screen. During a post-screening Q&A earlier this week at the Paris Theater in New York City, the filmmakers commented that they shot hundreds of hours of footage. In their film, following months of casting, Stern and Del Deo pay homage to the origins of “A Chorus Line,” which began with a bunch of Browdway dancers sitting in a circle late one night in 1974 talking with creator Michael Bennett. The competition begins like an early season episode of “American Idol” as the judges, in this case the directors and producers of the revival, watch from orchestra seats in an empty Broadway theater. “It’s important because it’s what we go through every day,” proclaims one aspiring Broadway star in Stern and Del Deo’s “Every Little Step,” a winning new doc about casting a revival of “A Chorus Line.” “It’s the truth,” she continues, near the end of the film, after learning her fate in the fierce competition to land a lead role in the musical.Įight film crews followed some fifty dancers who were aiming to land a lead role in the musical.

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