Chicago the Musical Appreciation Thread- Page 95
Chicago the Musical Appreciation Thread
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2350
Posted: 1/16/22 at 7:01pm
Approximately....roughly....how is "Chicago" doing in the grosses dept. (i.e weekly grosses & % of seats) ?
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2351
Posted: 1/18/22 at 10:39pm
The story behind "Chicago"...and then some. https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2352
Posted: 1/24/22 at 7:20pm
Patti LuPone FANatic said: "The story behind "Chicago"...and then some.https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90"
Did you not know the stories behind “Chicago”?
not that anyone cares but 24 years ago today (1/24/98) was my first Roxie/Velma understudy show (Nancy Hess was Roxie and Mamie was Velma @ the matinee .. the eve was Hess as Velma, Marilu thankfully was back)
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2353
Posted: 1/24/22 at 7:24pm
JBradshaw said: "Patti LuPone FANatic said: "The story behind "Chicago"...and then some.https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90"
Did you not know the stories behind “Chicago”?
not that anyone cares but 24 years ago today (1/24/98) was my first Roxie/Velma understudy show (Nancy Hess was Roxie and Mamie was Velma @ the matinee .. the eve was Hess as Velma, Marilu thankfully was back)"
How unfortunate that you got to witness Nancy Hess' Velma AND Roxie.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2354
Posted: 1/24/22 at 8:11pm
JBradshaw said: "Patti LuPone FANatic said: "The story behind "Chicago"...and then some.https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90"
Did you not know the stories behind “Chicago”?
not that anyone cares but 24 years ago today (1/24/98) was my first Roxie/Velma understudy show (Nancy Hess was Roxie and Mamie was Velma @ the matinee .. the eve was Hess as Velma, Marilu thankfully was back)" Yes.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2355
Posted: 1/24/22 at 8:47pm
ACL2006 said: "JBradshaw said: "Patti LuPone FANatic said: "The story behind "Chicago"...and then some.https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90"
Did you not know the stories behind “Chicago”?
How unfortunate that you got to witness Nancy Hess' Velma AND Roxie."
no it’s cool - Nancy’s Roxie wigs always amused me - she had a Bob a bun and then a on the 24th looked like Annie
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2356
Posted: 1/25/22 at 10:03am
Patti LuPone FANatic said: "The story behind "Chicago"...and then some.https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90"
I wish I could watch those Ms Mojo videos, but they never, ever stop talking.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
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Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2357
Posted: 1/25/22 at 11:36am
Can we please have Carly Hughes back as Velma? She seemed spectacular from the press rehearsal footage with Jennifer Nettles, but only played the role for three months. Frankly there is not a shortage of talented triple threats in NYC there's no reason that the producers can't find a new choice for the role. Amber Ardolino comes to mind.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2358
Posted: 1/25/22 at 11:59am
Nancy Hess was on the one and only time I saw this production in 1997. She's the main reason I didn't like it.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2359
Posted: 1/25/22 at 1:51pm
jonartdesigns said: "Can we please have Carly Hughes back as Velma? She seemed spectacular from the press rehearsal footage with Jennifer Nettles, but only played the role for three months. Frankly there is not a shortage of talented triple threats in NYC there's no reason that the producers can't find a new choice for the role. Amber Ardolino comes to mind."
I got to see Carly with Jennifer, and both were phenomenal. I was really hoping that Carly would stick around because she was definitely one of my top favorite Velmas in the dozens of times I've seen the show.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2360
Posted: 2/1/22 at 7:31pm
Surprise!!! And tonight I play Roxie! Went to bed as Velma and woke up as Roxie. Only in @chicagomusical That’s showbiz kid! Thrilled to play opposite the gorgeous @amrafaye as Velma! (from Bianca Marroquin's Facebook page). I'm surprised that one of the Velma understudies don't get a chance to play the role. Interesting.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2361
Posted: 2/1/22 at 7:33pm
Guessing Charlotte has COVID? Otherwise, why not just have the Roxie u/s go on? Chicago be doing bizarre things.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2362
Posted: 2/1/22 at 7:33pm
That's crazy. Also, I've heard from almost everyone I know who's seen Bianca in both roles and everyone has said she's an even greater Velma.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2363
Posted: 2/1/22 at 7:44pm
I guess AFW is the unofficial Velma standby?
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Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2365
Posted: 2/1/22 at 8:15pm
BCfitasafiddle said: "That's crazy. Also, I've heard from almost everyone I know who's seen Bianca in both roles and everyone has said she's an even greater Velma."
That's insane, anything she can't do?
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2366
Posted: 2/2/22 at 2:23am
blaxx said: "BCfitasafiddle said: "That's crazy. Also, I've heard from almost everyone I know who's seen Bianca in both roles and everyone has said she's an even greater Velma."
That's insane, anything she can't do?"
A new show.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2367
Posted: 2/2/22 at 2:23am
blaxx said: "BCfitasafiddle said: "That's crazy. Also, I've heard from almost everyone I know who's seen Bianca in both roles and everyone has said she's an even greater Velma."
That's insane, anything she can't do?"
A new show.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2368
Posted: 2/2/22 at 7:17am
Velma returns to introduce the opening act, resentful of Roxie's manipulation of the system ("I Know a Girl"
and ability to seduce a doctor into saying Roxie is pregnant; as Roxie emerges, she sings gleefully of the future of her unborn (nonexistent) child ("Me and My Baby". Amos proudly claims paternity, but still, nobody notices him, and Billy exposes holes in Roxie's story by noting that she and Amos had not had sex in four months, meaning if she were pregnant, the child was not Amos's, in hopes that Amos will divorce her and look like a villain, which Amos almost does ("Mr. Cellophane". Velma tries to show Billy all the tricks she has planned for her trial ("When Velma Takes The Stand", which Roxie treats skeptically. Roxie, upset with being treated like a "common criminal" and considering herself a celebrity, has a heated argument with Billy and fires him; Billy warns her that her kind of and that she would be just as famous hanging from a noose. At that moment, Roxie witnesses one of her fellow inmates, a Hungarian woman who insisted on her innocence but could not speak English and whose public lawyer refused to defend her, become the first woman to be executed in Chicago ("Hungarian Rope Trick".
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2370
Posted: 2/2/22 at 9:56am
Apparently last night had every swing on which caused Bianca to play Roxie and AFW to come back (again) as Velma. Rachel was Mama, J. London was Mary Sunshine, their Amos was out. Sounds like Charlotte will be out the rest of the week at least. Let's see if this happens again on Thursday.
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2371
Posted: 2/2/22 at 9:56am
BCfitasafiddle said: "That's crazy. Also, I've heard from almost everyone I know who's seen Bianca in both roles and everyone has said she's an even greater Velma."
I've seen Bianca dozens of times as Roxie and she was always one of my favorites, somehow always fresh doing the same thing so long. And I think her natural ability, plus knowing the show backwards and forwards, made for an incredible Velma when I saw her a couple of months ago. I really think she's just a remarkable triple threat, and it's great she's been able to do both roles so impeccably.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2372
Posted: 2/2/22 at 11:12am
Bianca is playing Roxie through Friday at least, according to her instagram.
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Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2373
Posted: 2/2/22 at 11:21amBCfitasafiddle said: "That's crazy. Also, I've heard from almost everyone I know who's seen Bianca in both roles and everyone has said she's an even greater Velma."
I had the opposite reaction. Seeing Marroquin's "Velma" reaffirmed that this triple threat is a HUGE, supreme talent. But, she didn't convince me in the role. There was no grit, no top-dog attitude, no caustic sarcasm. Big on goofiness and sensitivity...not so much on being a hardened force of the Cook County Jail. Actually, most of the women on the cell block were lacking edge & distinction; besides the foolproof laughs, "CBT" fell flat with the current crop.
For me, Marroquin is an even greater "Roxie."
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Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread#2374
Posted: 2/2/22 at 12:51pm
After this, I feel like Amra’s Velma dress should be framed and hung in the lobby.
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