Goofs

After Paul is carried off the stage to be taken to the hospital, Diana carries his bag out for him. Moments later, as the last elimination is about to take place, the bag is still in the middle of the stage, and Diana can be seen looking at it as she walks back to the front line.

In some of the wide and far-out shots, Valerie is missing from the ensemble, even though she is supposed to be rehearsing with the others. It is notable that she is missing through most of the dancing sequence at the beginning when Zach makes everyone get on stage to do the combination from the top. She also is missing in the ending of the "Surprise, Surprise" number, and when they are doing the tap-dancing combination when Cassie sings "What I Did for Love". She is not there due to Audrey Landers' little dancing experience and ability. A dance double is used for the final half of "One" that ends the movie.

During the auditions, many of the dancers that were cut are shown again later on in the auditions before the cut, resulting in only the main characters. A key example is the boy with the red-striped shirt and red head band who mutters, "I've never been cut this soon" as he leaves the stage; he clearly is seen a few minutes later behind Diana just before she goes over to talk to Paul.

During the first ballet routine, there is a tall blonde female dancer wearing a light blue top and black spandex pants in the back of the group that exits stage right. Immediately after that, the same dancer is at the very front of the next group ready to dance again entering from stage left, only for the next wide shot to show a completely different group of dancers that includes Judy and Kristine and the girl in the yellow trunks.

Several of Larry's dance directions were repeated as background noise behind other scenes. One example is during the opening credits, when the auditioning dancers are lined up outside the theater, Larry's voice is heard counting down and making calls such as "walk walk walk" and he gives these exact same calls in the next scene. Another is when Cassie is reminiscing in the dressing rooms, and Larry can be heard saying, "Make it strong, guys" when he has just said this in an earlier shot of the auditions.

In the final dance scene at the end of the audition sequence, clearly visible are dancers who have been shown to be rejected.

This scene isn't intended to be in continuity but is more like a curtain call (as it was in the Broadway musical).

Val would not have been able to audition for the Rockettes; at 5'3" she would not meet the minimum height requirement of 5'6".

Actually, though Audrey Landers is 5'3", it is never stated how tall Val is. Therefore, it can be deduced that Landers is acting as a 5'6" dancer.

In the closing shot, as the camera starts pulling out, not long after everyone has their hats back on, a dancer falls down while doing high-kicks and then gets up again and continues dancing.

This is not a Goof as it is exactly what would happen if a dancer fell while doing a show.

Zach, interviewing dancers in the theater, says he intends to structure the show around the personalities and back stories of whoever makes the cut. This indicates that he doesn't even have a script but merely an idea for a show that will presumably take months to develop. As a result, there is no reason for them to be in an expensive Broadway theater. In reality, they would have been in a far more economical rehearsal hall, because at this early point, no producer would finance costs of working bugs out of such a sketchy project in a high-rent Broadway theater.

Then again, as the hot shot producer/choreographer he is, he could have enough connections and pull with theater owners that he can choose where to rehearse his show and whichever venue that pleases his creative control. Additionally, on at least four of the weekdays, Broadway shows don't start until early evening (!7:00 p.m.), so the theater would be mostly vacant all morning and afternoon.

In the final dance number where all of the dancers are on the stage dancing in gold outfits, one male dancer (probably Justin Ross based on hair color, height, and row placement), first row, sixth from the left, lowers his hat and leaves the wrong hand grabbing it, left instead of right, on the brim, then quickly changes it.

This is not a Goof as it is a scenario that could happen to a dancer in a show.

When Kim says 138 Boy helping dancers coming in to audition, a dancer walking by bumps the camera stand; the thump can be heard.

When calling out numbers, Larry calls the number two twice.