Pamela Anderson To Make Broadway Debut In CHICAGO — Page 10

Caught this with Pamela Anderson and she is quite good in the show!! She brings a star quality that was needed. The show is in pretty darn good shape for 20 years.

Pamela is drop dead gorgeous and a star. She acts the role very well and is perfectly cast. She dances th role very well and her singing is good.

Also great are Mary Sunshine (R Lowe) and Amos (Raymond Bokhur) playing fully fleshed out characters. The ensemble was in good shape. Stand outs were the swing Sharon Moore who was the funniest of the girls in Cell Block Tango. The cell block girls could use some acting tweaking but Sharon Moore was superb.

Lana Gordon is good as Velma..Different than Chita or Bebe but she makes it her own. It's an adjustment but it works. And she plays a hardened Velma well.

The Matron Mama Morton was well sung by Brenda Braxton but was missing character development. of being a butch prison matron. . You should not just sing the role. You need to own i and act it.

Also disappointing was the Billy Flynn of Ryan Silverman. Again.. sings great but no character development or stage prescence.or personality.

Overall the show was in good shape!

Curious as well. Looking to go next Saturday

After my performance of SUFFS was cancelled tonight, I grabbed a front row ticket to see Pamela Anderson in CHICAGO for this evening's show. I haven't seen the show in years. It has always been one of my favorites, but the last few times I saw the Broadway production I was underwhelmed. That being said, I am thrilled to report that this production has never looked or sounded better in the countless times I have seen it on tour and on Broadway. THIS is the CHICAGO I know and love. Seeing this show performed so flawlessly tonight was the highlight of my trip (this was show 7 of my 7 show marathon weekend trip to the city, and surprisingly enough it ended up being my favorite).

Lane Gordon's Velma is fierce and feisty. And then there's Pamela Anderson. I cannot say enough positive things about her performance. She is absolutely fabulous in every sense of the word. She has the audience in the palm of her hand, and her facial expressions are absolutely exquisite. After watching Feldstein in Funny Girl last night, it was such a tremendous relief to see a proper comedic performance from someone who knew how to command a stage and be a star.

If you haven't already, get down to the Ambassador before June 5th to see Pamela Anderson. I truly feel like new life has been breathed into this show.

Ryan Silverman was out this past saturday night as Billy Flynn and we got Brian O'Brien. He was awesome!

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Updated On: 5/16/22 at 12:03 PM

Ryan Silverman sings well but is lackluster in the role. He needs some direction and oomph.

Seeing the understudy was most likely a blessing.

JUNE 5th

DearTheodosia said: "Do we know how long she will be in the show?"

gleek4114 said: "On Sunday evening Ryan was still out and we hadJeff Gorti as Billy, he was wonderful!"

I was there Sunday night as well, and also thought that Jeff Gorti was fantastic.

I completely concur with everything you wrote, Bettyboy. She is so unbelievably great in this. She also made it through her entire run thus far without missing a single performance. Pamela Anderson breathed some much needed life back into this show, and I hope the momentum keeps even after she leaves.

I am seeing her final performance on Sunday and I am so damn excited! I've also never seen Chicago on Broadway, so I'm thinking this is the perfect time to finally do so.

The thing about Pam’s performance is that its only enjoyable because she’s Pamela Anderson. She did bring her personality to it, and she dances much better than expected, but if anyone else was giving that performance, there’s no way they’d be allowed on a Broadway stage, and I say this as someone who overall enjoyed Pam…but can’t quite figure out why or how. Her casting does make the show feel like an event, maybe that adds to it? She’s charming enough and cute enough, I’m just not so sure I’d use words like “remarkable” and “spectacular” to describe her performance.

I'd never seen Chicago live before, but like many others, leapt at the opportunity to see Pamela in this. I went last week and was really impressed by her performance. As countless others have said, the entire audience was on her side and rooting for her. A guy in the front row kept giving her two thumbs up throughout (which I imagine was pretty distracting for her after a while but was pretty amusing). Pamela can carry a tune, she can do the dance track they gave her, and her jokes landed. The audience ate up everything she did, and when she struggled or showed a bit of trepidation, they were right there to pick her back up. I found it pretty darn endearing. And of course, it's clear she relates to Roxie.

Pamela is 54 years old, and to agree to star in a Broadway show in her first ever attempt at live theatre is a pretty brave thing to do. I'll always commend her for that - icing on the cake was that she honestly was really enjoyable to watch!

Saw the show on Tuesday and, honestly, it was a fantastic evening. I was there really out of curiosity to see how Pamela did, and I was shocked by how stellar she was. Her comedic timing, stage presence, her focus, her dancing, her "Roxie" monologue, all of it was on a level I wasn't expecting. A very thin voice, to be sure, but pleasant and perfectly on-key.

Would she have made it to Broadway if she wasn't Pamela Anderson? No. But there also wasn't a single person there who didn't know who she was, and her camaraderie with the audience made the whole night that much sweeter. Lana Gordon and Raymond Bokhour were excellent as well, and offered nuances to Velma and Amos that I hadn't seen before.

Although I understand it was a limited time thing, I'm still kinda bummed that the show didn't extend her run until the end of June... You'd think that Pamela in Chicago for pride week would be a no-brainer! There's going to be so much gay tourism for pride week (myself included) who would have LOVED the chance to see Pamela as Roxy! That being said, Jennifer Holliday will still be fantastic as Mama so that's still going to get me to go! Looking forward to it!!

And as for future stunt casting (just putting this out into the universe) - I would LOVE to see someone like Kesha appear as Velma or possibly Roxy!! That would be ICONIC.