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Record Night Frame Color:Natural But Ford's "Road of TomorrowFor once, on this night in 1983, "A Chorus Line" was not about getting the part; it was about setting the record as Broadway's longest running musical. Its 3,389th performance was a reunion of 332 dancers from present and previous casts who had rotated in and out during its eight year run. They came, as The Times noted, "from the four continents to which they had dispersed, from stardom and from unemployment lines." Times staff photographer Fred R.