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Instead of the Broadway chorines of the original, her mermaid siblings are a multiethnic, runway-ready General Assembly.—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 May 2023 No one was remotely surprised when Rob Marshall’s flashily entertaining Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptation won six Oscars, including best picture and best supporting actress for Catherine Zeta-Jones, so riveting as the murderous chorine Velma Kelly.—Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023 Kahlia Davis is sexy and surprisingly sweet as the sassy chorine who becomes Peggy’s best gal pal. Kara Gibson Slocum is wonderfully vain as the show’s leading lady, a manipulative stage vet whose Oklahoma sugar daddy is financing the show.—Robert W. Butler, kansascity.com, 3 May 2017 By contrast, Crawford started as a chorine and her range of performance wasn’t large; her theatrical craft was modest but her onscreen presence and projection of character was—and, in the rewatching, is—colossal.—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
Word History
Etymology
chorus + -ine, feminine noun suffix (as in Pauline)
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