Introducing Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines As Newest "Velma"
Introducing Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines As Newest "Velma"
#1Introducing Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines As Newest "Velma"
Posted: 10/19/11 at 6:39pm
....along with Charlotte D'Amboise as "Roxie" and John O'Hurley as "Billy Flynn". They join/rejoin the cast of "Chicago" on November 1st. from RC in Austin, Texas
A New Velma Joins Chicago
"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)
Updated On: 10/19/11 at 06:39 PM
#2Introducing Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines As Newest
Posted: 10/19/11 at 6:42pmShe's been making the rounds in ensemble/understudy roles for a while. Good for her for snagging a leading role. She certainly has the talent to be an amazing Velma.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#2Introducing Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines As Newest
Posted: 10/19/11 at 6:44pmFYI, your subject line says she's playing Roxie, not Velma.
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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