A Chorus Line premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in May 1975.
[2] The dancers sing about their worries, fears, and doubts regarding a new job opportunity.
Musicals101 explains:[3] "I Hope I Get It" is a ten-minute sequence, one of the most exciting openings in all musical theatre.
A rehearsal piano plays as Bennett fills the stage with flying arms and legs, as groups of dancers in rehearsal clothes vanish and reappear.
The dancers eventually surge forward into a line, holding their eight-by-ten inch head shots in front of them.Ken Mandelbaum, author of A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett, commented "This moment – one of the show's most celebrated – represents the perfect blend of theme, staging concept, musical underscoring, lighting, and set design that marks the entire evening".