Posted: 8/17/21 at 8:30pm
Thanks for the heads up. I'm programming my dvr.
Posted: 8/17/21 at 8:45pm
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Posted: 8/17/21 at 8:53pm
Other cast, at least for GMA, besides Bianca, include Denny Paschall, Michael Scirrotto, Aubree Brown
Posted: 8/17/21 at 10:14pm
CJR said: "Bianca Marroquin as Velma. :)" Really? That would be awesome. She has a phenomenal voice. https://youtu.be/F31zoz5jgv4
Posted: 8/17/21 at 11:04pm
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Posted: 8/17/21 at 11:31pm
CJR said: "Bianca Marroquin as Velma. :)"
Seriously? That would be amazing.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 2:01am
ACL2006 said: "I wonder if Sharon Moore will return? She's been a long tenured swing for about twenty years."
more like 23+ years
I love me some Sharon. Fierce dancer. She was amazing as Mama and Velma…also one of the nicest ladies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J8kWzpAePxk
she’s amazing
Posted: 8/18/21 at 3:00am
Posted: 8/18/21 at 7:08am
Angel Reda posted in her IG a picture of the dancers for Thursday's appearance on Good Morning America. Bianca Marroquin is indeed in front as "Velma". I wonder if all of the dancers who will appear on GMA will be in the Broadway company in a few weeks? Roman in Austin, Texas
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:48am
Updated On: 8/18/21 at 08:48 AM
Posted: 8/18/21 at 11:04am
I don't know why it's taken my almost 24 hours to even realize that Bianca Marroquin is playing Velma. I've seen her dozens of times as Roxie, so I guess my brain just assumed the same when I saw her name. It'll be great to see her in the other role, and bravo to her for taking on the more dance-heavy role after so many years playing the other!
Posted: 8/18/21 at 11:18am
We shouldn't necessarily assume the cast that's performing on TV is the cast that is reopening the show...maybe they are, but we all know how they cycle through people at the Ambassador. It could just be a group of alums that has been assembled.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 11:42am
DAME said: "Not sure if this has been mentioned here before. But I was fascinated by the footage of what I imagine was Liza's put in rehearsal for Chicago on the recent Golden Age documentary. Maybe it has been around but I have never seen it before. I thought it was the coolest minutes of the documentary."
Wonderful footage. I had not seen it before either.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 11:50am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "We shouldn't necessarily assume the cast that's performing on TV is the cast that is reopening the show...maybe they are, but we all know how they cycle through people at the Ambassador. It could just be a group of alums that has been assembled."
Yeah. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this past winter Tina Fey hosted a TV Special showing off broadway performances and Lana Gordon played Velma in a brief performance of “All That Jazz”.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 12:52pm
According to Michael Scirrotto’s insta Bianca will be playing Velma
Posted: 8/18/21 at 5:55pm
Bianca will be a fantastic Velma. She has an amazing soaring voice!
Posted: 8/18/21 at 6:40pm
FYI, I just discovered that the first 2 rows in the orchestra, which don't appear on the Telecharge website, are available for purchase on the app.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:11pm
A gossip blogger on Instagram posted a tip from someone who gave more hints on the Chicago cast, saying the cast will include "a former Dreamgirl, a beloved Emmy winner, a Brazilian heart throb, and the rising queen of a movie musical." Do we have any ideas?
Updated On: 8/18/21 at 08:11 PM
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:14pm
Based on prior rumors in this thread, Lilias White would fit as the former Dreamgirl and Ariana Debose works as a rising queen of a movie musical.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:16pm
Lunalaaaaaaaa said: "A gossip blogger on Instagram posteda tip from someone who gave more hints on the Chicago cast, saying the cast will include
"a former Dreamgirl, - Lillias White
a beloved Emmy winner - Jane Krakowski
a Brazilian heart throb - Bianca Marroquin
,and the rising queen of a movie musical." - ????
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:20pm
Bianca is Mexican and as far as I can tell Jane Krakowski doesn't actually have an Emmy (although she seems like she should, so perhaps the person who made the hint was mistaken). I think the term "heartthrob" is typically used to describe men so I assume that hint is about the Billy Flynn.
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:20pm
Paulo Szot sounds like the "Brazilian heart throb," since he played Billy shortly before Covid. Bianca Marroquin is Mexican.
I will be amazed if Ariana DeBose decides to do this, but she'd be great.
Jane Krakowski has 5 Emmy nominations but has never won (but perhaps the gossiper has their awards facts mixed up).
Updated On: 8/18/21 at 08:20 PM
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:27pm
Posted: 8/18/21 at 8:27pm
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Paulo Szot sounds like the "Brazilian heart throb," since he played Billy shortly before Covid. BiancaMarroquin is Mexican.
I will be amazed if Ariana DeBose decides to do this, but she'd be great.
Jane Krakowski has 5 Emmy nominations but has never won (but perhaps the gossiper has their awards facts mixed up)."
I was thinking the same! Jane is Emmy nominated*. I'd LOVE to see Jane as Roxie.
I was also thinking of Melissa Barrera as the "rising queen of movie musicals". But I believe she will be filming other movies during this time? Ariana De Bose was so wonderful in Prom: The Musical too.
