1974

January 18 - First Tape Session with 22 dancers

August- September - First Workshop

1975

January-February - Second Workshop

April 16 - First off-Broadway Preview (Estelle R. Newman Theater - New York Shakespeare Festival)

May 21 - Opening Night

June 3 - Columbia records Original Cast Album

July 13 - Final off-Broadway Performance (101)

July 25 - First Broadway Performance

October 19 - Press Opening

1976

March 23 - ACL receives 12 Tony Award nominations

April 19 - ACL wins 9 Tony Awards

May 3 - Pulitzer Prize for Drama is Awarded to ACL

May 6 - National Company opens in San Francisco

May 6 - International Company opens in Toronto

July 1 - ACL opens in Los Angeles

July 22 - ACL opens in London

1977

February 2 - International Company returns vfrom London, to open in Baltimore, Feb. 13

February 12 - ACL wins London Evening Standard "Best Musical" award

April 7 - ACL wins five L.A. Drama CRitics awards

May 24 - Australian production opens in Sydney

1978

January 7 - ACL closes in L.A. to open in Chicago

January 9 - 1,000th performance

January 17 - Gold Record Award from Columbia Records

December 2 - ACL closes in Chicago (11 months), begins road tour

1979

Stockholm, Sweden production

1980

April 24 - ONE the finale of "Baryshnikov on Broadway"

June 11 - 2,000th performance

September 14 - National Tour closes in Montreal, becomes Bus & Truck Tour

1982

April 24 - Mexico City production opens

October 3 - Bus & Truck Tour closes in Pittsburgh

October 24 - 3,000th performance

1983

April 15 - Sao Paulo production opens

May 29 - International Company closes in Chicago

September 29 - ACL becomes longest running show in Broadway history, passing GREASE (3389th performance)

1985

March 16 - 4,000th performance

December 9 - A CHORUS LINE - THE MOVIE opens

1987

July 2 - Michael Bennett dies

August 10 - 5,000th performance

December 27 - Ed Kleban dies

1989

April 22 - Co-librettist James Kirkwood dies

December 31 - 6,000th performance

1990

February 21 - Joe Papp announces closing

April 28 - "The End of the Line" 6137th and final performance

1991

May 21 - Nicholas Dante dies

2001

September 16 - Barbara Matera dies