The Life was an original Broadway musical that ran for a little over a year beginning in 1997. Reviews were mixed and when it closed, it disappeared. There have been very few productions of it since. I saw it in New York and liked parts of it but not the whole, which was all about pimps and prostitution and the rise of one lady in that very old profession to Hollywood stardom. It struck me as a show filled with people I didn't care about and one that took a phony, sanitized look at a tawdry world.
Still, some of the songs were quite good. Cy Coleman wrote the music and the lyrics were by Ira Gasman. Our clip today is a promotional video that was made of the show's hooker chorus singing "My Body," which was supposed to be some sort of whores' anthem. It's a perfectly fine theatre number but I think it also demonstrates what was wrong with the show.
