Record Night clearance Listens Patiently to Men's Complaints

Listens Patiently to Men's Complaints - Gets Wet Through and Is Covered With Mud

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Times photographer John Orris captured a barge-load of prehistoric beasts - "two of which looked very belligerent" - floating down the Hudson River

This photo was published the next day with the headline: "Maris' 54th Homer

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Record Night clearance Listens Patiently to Men's ComplaintsFor once, on this night in 1983, "A Chorus Line" was not about getting the part; it was about setting the record as Broadway's longest running musical. Its 3,389th performance was a reunion of 332 dancers from present and previous casts who had rotated in and out during its eight year run. They came, as The Times noted, "from the four continents to which they had dispersed, from stardom and from unemployment lines." Times staff photographer Fred R.