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During previews at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater, "A Chorus Line" had already leaped into legend.
The two-part epic leaped into unprofitable legend, eking out a year's run, which might be tallied as one- half year for each play.
There's the obligatory slow build to a soaring chorus, before Legend leaps into a falsetto and crushes all quibbles.
At the after party at Sardi's, Mark Nadler, who had also performed at Town Hall along with the Broadway legend Chita Rivera, leapt onto a chair.
Known for his jumping ability, Oxygen, a lanky Czech, catapulted to legend status by leaping a nearly 10-foot-wide abyss separating two 100-foot sandstone spires.
Most modern critics also consider it legend that Sappho leaped from the Leucadian rock to certain death in the sea because of her unrequited love of Phaon, a younger man and a sailor.
As legend has it, Stengel leapt out of the dugout to argue the call but was intercepted by the first-base coach, Cookie Lavagetto, who said: "It won't do any good, Casey.
His final leap in "Le Spectre" has passed into legend; and of his performance in "Petrouchka" there are the words of Sarah Bernhardt: "J'ai peur, j'ai peur, car je vois l'acteur le plus grand du monde".
Legend has it that Gonsalus leapt off a 100-foot precipice into a thicket of hemlock trees, and not only escaped but lived to tell about it for 60 more years.
