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Chicago the Musical Appreciation Thread

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#2350Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 1/16/22 at 7:01pm

Approximately....roughly....how is "Chicago" doing in the grosses dept.  (i.e weekly grosses & % of seats) ?

 


"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

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#2351Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 1/18/22 at 10:39pm

The story behind "Chicago"...and then some.  https://youtu.be/t8HpPpxrq90


"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

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#2352Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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)

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#2353Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

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#2354Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.  

 


"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

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#2355Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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

 

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#2356Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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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#2357Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.


"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

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#2358Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.


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#2359Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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

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#2360Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.


"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

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#2361Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

BCfitasafiddle
#2362Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.

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#2363Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 2/1/22 at 7:44pm

I guess AFW is the unofficial Velma standby?


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

Nolan LuPone
#2364Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 2/1/22 at 7:49pm

It seems so...

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#2365Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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?


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Azúcar!
#2366Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.

Azúcar!
#2367Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.

TuqueroIMKJernalyn
#2368Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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"Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread 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"Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread. 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"Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread. Velma tries to show Billy all the tricks she has planned for her trial ("When Velma Takes The Stand"Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread, 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.

Nolan LuPone
#2369Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 2/2/22 at 9:46am

How is this helpful?

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#2370Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

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#2371Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
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

pattilupony
#2372Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 2/2/22 at 11:12am

Bianca is playing Roxie through Friday at least, according to her instagram. 

KMKJ
#2373Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 2/2/22 at 11:21am

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 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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#2374Chicago The Musical Appreciation Thread
Posted: 2/2/22 at 12:51pm

After this, I feel like Amra’s Velma dress should be framed and hung in the lobby. 


"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel


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