Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#1
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:41pm
Who played Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart the best?
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#2
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:44pm
Gwen, Chita and Liza...
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Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#3
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:46pm
"Gwen, Chita and Liza..."
AMEN
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Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#4
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:49pm
This is like getting answers before you take a test.
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Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#5
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:50pm
Gwen, Chita, and Liza
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#6
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:50pm
I've seen clips of Gwen, Chita and Liza but in all fairness will not name them as my favorites because I did not have the honor of seeing any of those great ladies in the show.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#7
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:54pm
Bebe Neuwirth & Samantha Barks
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Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#8
Posted: 8/17/15 at 4:58pm
@Carlos I saw all three. And during the original run I also saw Ann R and Lenora Nemetz. Yep.. at 10 years old I knew I was gay.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#9
Posted: 8/17/15 at 6:14pm
"Who played Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart the best?
i was very lucky to see CHITA RIVERA and LIZA MINNELLI play the roles of VELMA and ROXIE in June, 1976, the week it was up for the Tony Awards...GWEN VERDON was out as Roxie due to an injury...I WAS IN GAY-BROADWAY heaven!...and while i really liked the revival with BEBE and CHARLOTTE to me CHITA and LIZA will always be CHICAGO to me...:)
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Updated On: 8/17/15 at 06:14 PM
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Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#10
Posted: 8/17/15 at 7:23pm
For me, having only seen the revival, I would say Ruthie Henshall as Roxie and Pia Douwes as Velma. For sentiments sake I would also add Chita as Roxie. Yes she was way too old for it ( her line "I'm older than I ever intended to be" stopped the show cold) but it was one of the most extraordinary examples of sheer star quality and showbiz know-how overcoming everything else that I could ever see. She was gorgeous. Also her "Roxie" monologue went on forever.....and it still wasn't long enough 
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#11
Posted: 8/17/15 at 7:23pm
I've seen Chicago several times and while I liked them all very much, the team of Bebe Neuwirth and Charlotte d'Amboise was amazing. I was lucky to be first row center and they were both perfection.
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Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#12
Posted: 8/18/15 at 9:42am
Are there any clips of Melanie Griffith? Have always been curious...
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#13
Posted: 8/18/15 at 11:18am
Bebe Neuwirth and Sandy Duncan.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#14
Posted: 8/18/15 at 11:54am
Donna Marie Asbury and Belle Callaway hands down!!;
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#15
Posted: 8/18/15 at 4:33pm
Sandy Duncan was an absolute delight as Roxie. I have yet to see another Roxie in this revival who was played with as much fun and mischeviousness as Sandy did. The night I saw her as Roxie Mamie Duncan-Gibbs was on as Velma (I don't remember if she was understudying at the time or had been promoted to playing the part full-time at that point), and she was very good as well, though, in terms of the revival, Bebe is still the best I've seen so far (I saw her with both Ann Reinking and Marilu Henner as Roxie).
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#16
Posted: 8/18/15 at 9:14pm
with the fabulous Leigh Zimmerman.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#17
Posted: 8/18/15 at 9:16pm
with the fantastic Terra C MacLeod. 
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#18
Posted: 8/18/15 at 9:43pm
I also want to give a shoutout to Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones who are incredible in the film.
Did anybody see Amy Spanger? I hear she's an amazing Roxie
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#19
Posted: 8/18/15 at 10:00pm
Donna Marie Asbury and Charlotte d'Amboise were magnificent back in the early 2000s. Would loved to have seen Bebe & Ann or Chita & Gwen, but I'm far too young.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#20
Posted: 8/18/15 at 10:03pm
My favorite Roxie is Bianca Marroquin.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#21
Posted: 8/18/15 at 10:24pm
"My favorite Roxie is Bianca Marroquin.
Bebe Neuwirth, hands down, is the best Velma. One of the best musical comedy performances I have seen in 50 years. Gwen Verdon is the best Roxy. Jerry Orbach is the best Billy Flynn. Mary McCarty is the best Mama Morton.
"
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#22
Posted: 8/18/15 at 10:35pm
Bebe Neuwirth has been my favorite Velma, with special love also reserved for Ruthie Henshall, Luba Mason, and Ute Lemper. Favorite Roxie was my first, who I saw on tour: Sandy Duncan.
Who Are Your Favorite Velma Kellys and Roxie Harts#23
Posted: 8/18/15 at 11:05pm
I don't see how you can accurately answer this question without having seen all of them, and at this point, that number has to be in the hundreds.
Someone like the stage manager is probably qualified to answer this. Or the conductor.
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