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Greetings from one and all on this special day!  from Roman in Austin, Texas

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Patrick-Wilson-Reveals-An-Itch-to-Return-To-the-Broadway-Stage-20251223  After reading this article, I think he'd make a great Billy Flynn.  Thoughts?

"So many men, so little time.  I want them all.  Is that a crime?  _______________

Winter is coming.   

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSATRRfESxZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Mikayla Renfro's recent turn as Velma Kelly.  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR_ERBkDBOi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Celina Nightengale comments on a very busy week.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DR0Yosakcw-/    Liza and Chita rehearse Hot Honey Rag.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR2oiI8kY18/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Liza singing 'Roxie".  (There are a few gaps in this audio clip.)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR2sDmNEShY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Liza Minnelli singing "My Own Best Friend".  

ColdClimateDude said: "Any news on the tour cast? Is it non-equity?"   Yes.  As far as I can tell, the last Cellblock Tour equity production was in 2019, with Lana Gordon and Dylis Croman (I saw them two times in Houston.)

 

Former Velma Terra C MacLeod is playing the role of Marlene Dietrich , along with Deborah Hay as Edith Piaf.  https://www.grandtheatre.com/event/piaf-dietrich   Feb. 17, 2026---March 7, 2026

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRpeIpHDQk4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==  Marsha Bagwell (Matron Mama Morton / Mary Sunshine standby) talks about the first time she went on as Matron Mama Morton in the 1975 production of Chicago.  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRpQcHvDb_j/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Marsha Bagwell and her wonderful audition story for the roles of Mary Sunshine and Matron Mama Morton in the original production of Chicago.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRsdfdhESt2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Marsha Bagwell, the original standby for Matron Mama Morton in the 1975 production of Chicago.  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRqEfBrkXph/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==  Chita and Gwen perform "Nowadays".  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRm1N0UESGG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Marsha Bagwell as "Matron Mama Morton" (1985)

Lenora Nemetz on her mid show debut as Roxie in the 1975 production.  https://www.instagram.com/p/DRXgDDgDukc/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRadA1fkeLE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   The vaudevillian inspiration for Me and My Baby (Eddie Cantor).

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRckd9GEWgh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Barney Martin as Amos (original Broadway production)  In this IG article, there's a story about the real life inspiration for the  character of Amos Hart: 

Did you know, “Mr. Cellophane” in Bob Fosse’s Chicago was based performances by Bert Williams? Williams was the first modern Black entertainment star: the first Black recording artist, one of the earliest Black leading men on film, and the first Black performer to star in a major Broadway production (Ziegfeld Follies) with white actors. His signature song, “Nobody,” a hauntingly comic lament about being unseen, directly inspired the creation and tone of “Mr. Cellophane.” Fosse and Kander & Ebb drew on Williams’s bittersweet blend of humor and pathos — the ability to make audiences laugh while revealing something painful underneath.

Williams’s career was full of contradictions. He achieved tremendous success while navigating a segregated industry that forced him into blackface even as he tried to subvert it. Unlike many other blackface performers, Williams did not play for laughs at the expense of other African Americans or black culture. Instead, he based his humor on universal situations in which any members of his audience might find themselves. In the style of vaudeville, Williams performed in blackface makeup like his white counterparts. Blackface worked like a double mask for him. It emphasized the difference between Williams, his fellow vaudevillians, and his white audiences.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRa7fDtjz35/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==   Chita as Roxie