Every Little Step is a documentary that follows the audition process of the revival of the classic broadway musical A Chorus Line. The film not only mirrors the audition process, which takes place in the musical, but also shows how the original musical was brought about. The film plays the original audio tape of the seven hour conversation of dancers that the musical was created around. The film was directed by Adam Del Deo and James Stern in 2008. It distributed by the company Endgame Entertainment and made its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008. After the film received good reception from the festival it was distributed in Japan under the title Broadway Broadway. It was then shown at three more film festivals around the world and because of continued success Endgame decided to give it limited release in the US. I watched this film for research for my research project and ended up falling in love with this little documentary. I like how simple and direct the footage is, it lets you feel the emotions of the actors auditioning and you quickly become attached to them. Rolling Stone magazine said in a review "a thrilling combinations of documentary and musical dazzlers; and a heartbreaker".
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