Months later, the eight performers are seen performing "One" in front of an audience. Zach chooses Val, Cassie, Bebe, Diana, Mike, Mark, Richie, and Bobby to be in his line. Diana is the only one that can truly answer the question, telling him that she wants to be remembered, even just for dancing in a chorus, which all the hopefuls seem to agree with. As he is rushed to the hospital, Zach asks the dancers what they will do once they can no longer perform. Suddenly, Paul slips, falls and injures his knee. They argue about their past romantic relationship while Larry leads the group in a tap combination. Zach shouts at Cassie, as she cannot blend in. Larry brings the dancers back onstage to perform the newly learned routine. Zach embraces Paul, showing compassion for the first time in the audition. When his parents found out that he was gay and performing in drag, they couldn't look him in the eye. Paul describes his first job at a drag cabaret. Paul re-enters the stage and tells Zach about how he was sexually molested as a child while watching musicals on 42nd Street. Zach relents and sends her to learn the routine with everyone else. Through their stories, the group reveals how being a performer is a difficult profession.Īs Cassie enters the stage, Zach tells Larry to take all the dancers to a rehearsal room. This includes how they began dancing, first sexual experiences, their families, and hardships they've faced. As they each step forward, he interviews them and coaxes the dancers into talking about a variety of topics. Zach is looking for eight dancers (four men and four women) and has them introduce themselves. Now she has not worked in over a year, and is desperate enough to be part of the chorus line. Arriving late is former lead dancer Cassie ( Alyson Reed) who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach but left him for Hollywood. After initial eliminations, sixteen hopefuls remain. In a Broadway theater, from a darkened place in the audience, director Zach ( Michael Douglas) judges dozens of dancers and their performances.