IT'S morning, the bedroom door is closed and Angela Chase - the brooding teen at the heart of "My So-Called Life" - is dancing.

Also in 1993, Silverstone auditioned for the lead role of Angela Chase in the ABC network TV series 'My So-Called Life', but Claire Danes was chosen for the role instead.

In episode 17 ("Betrayal") of "My So-Called Life", the main character, Angela Chase, (played by Claire Danes,) dances around her bedroom to this song.

After attending junior high at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, she won the career-making role of Angela Chase, the insecure high-school heroine of "My So-Called Life," at 14.

Danes starred as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life in the 1994-1995 television season.

After all, no matter how lame her dress, Claire Danes IS Angela Chase and, for that, she'll always have my support.

As the protagonist of "My So-Called Life," a new ABC series that begins this month, she is Angela Chase, a confused, sometimes soulful Everyteen.

Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, is a 15-year-old sophomore at Liberty High School in Three Rivers, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Pittsburgh.

The stories are ostensibly told from the point of view of the main character, a 15-year-old girl named Angela Chase; much of the action is accompanied by her voice-over narration, literally making the show's narrative voice her own.

In that initial episode, in 1994, an edgy, questioning 15-year-old named Angela Chase, played with a nicely dark naturalness by Claire Danes, dyes her hair red and says she can't look at her mother without wanting to stab her repeatedly.