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description: Natalie Cortez has nailed the role of her dreams. Still, the 29-year-old actress is auditioning eight times a week for a spot in the chorus of a Broadway show.Why? Because Cortez stars as Puerto Rican ...

Natalie Cortez has nailed the role of her dreams. Still, the 29-year-old actress is auditioning eight times a week for a spot in the chorus of a Broadway show.

Why? Because Cortez stars as Puerto Rican Broadway hopeful Diana Morales in the revival of “A Chorus Line.”

Songs:

01 What I Did For Love《Musical Love》692
02 Montage, Part 2: Not..《A Chorus Line..》

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Cortez was born and raised in Manhattan. When she was 11, her family moved to Palm Harbor in the Tampa Bay area. “I totally rebelled out there in Florida,” she says.

“I was such a New York kid. Such a train person, a museum person and a Broadway person,” says Cortez, whose French mother and Argentine father regularly took her to Broadway shows as a child.

“My favorite show was ‘Cats,’ but my sister loved ‘A Chorus Line,’ and we always listened to the music at home,” she says.

Cortez eventually returned to New York and trained in acting, dance and singing at New York University’s Collaborative Arts Project 21.

She joined off-Broadway productions “Fame on 42nd Street” in 2004 and the following year “Mambo Kings” — which never made its expected Broadway debut.

“I’ve had a couple of big heartaches in this business,” she says.

When the revival of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Chorus Line” was announced in 2006, Cortez was offered the role of Diana, a dancer from the Bronx.

“I wanted the role. I wanted people to view Diana as a fighter and not a stereotype,” Cortez says.

But she also saw the role as a bit of a stretch.

“I saw her as tough and ghetto, and I didn’t see myself that way at all,” says Cortez, who summered in France with her parents as a child.

“But Priscilla López, who played Diana in the original production, was also not ‘ghetto,’ so that kind of changed my mind, and I thought, ‘Maybe I can do this.’”

And do it she does.

Sporting a silly costume — a lavender-and-green leotard with a light velvet green-and-red mock turtleneck sweater — Cortez shows off her soft but forceful falsetto and her dancing abilities during her two solo numbers, “Nothing” and “What I Did for Love.”

Cortez is scheduled to end her run as Diana at the end of July to explore other opportunities in theater.

“Someone else,” she says, “should get the opportunity to play this great character.”

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