<BR> <P><BR>About 79 young dancers showed up at a Las Vegas dance studio to audition for the Rockettes:<P> <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000527/aponline013510_000.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000527/aponline013510_000.htm</A>

From the Chicago Sun Times:<P><B>Rockette hopefuls lay it all on the line</B> <P>April 25, 2001<P>BY BRYAN SMITH STAFF REPORTER <P><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Two directors sitting at a folding table, faces raised, pens tapping over notepads, watching.<P>Seventy-five women to their left, standing in leotards and dance shoes, biting nails, hands on hips, faces fixed with concentration, worry, fear.<P>"Tiffany, Elizabeth, Catherine," a voice calls out.<P>Three dancers hurry onto the wooden floor, shoes clicking, skin pale in the harsh light.<P>Katherine Cruden watches and counts. Step, ball-change, step, ball-change,turn on the four . . .<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><BR><A HREF="http://www.suntimes.com/output/show/danc25.html" TARGET=_blank><B>MORE...</B></A><P><p>[This message has been edited by Basheva (edited April 25, 2001).]