Theater: Bumper Crop

A guide to Broadway

A record 17 million visitors are expected in New York City this year. For those with the theater on their travel agenda, the pick of Broadway's bumper crop of 27 offerings:

A Chorus Line. Terpsichore is the divine Muse of this musical as Choreographer Michael Bennett takes the parade-ground drill of the Radio City Rockettes and raises it to a Platonic idea.

Ain't Misbehavin'. This handsome tribute to Fats Waller is a jumpin' Harlem cantata of urban night music. Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Musical, 1978.

Chapter II. Neil Simon, the bluechip...

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