Will Charlotte be back in CHICAGO before ACL?

[everythingtaboo]

Will Charlotte be back in CHICAGO before ACL?#0

Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:29am

Hi all,

Will Charlotte be doing one last run in CHICAGO? She's my fave Roxie, and I would love one last chance to see Roxie's Soliloquoy as only she can do it.

Tried searching, but couldn't find anything.

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Updated On: 3/26/06 at 12:29 AM

[Rathnait62]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#1

Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:52am

She's busy with 70 GIRLS 70 right now, but maybe after that.

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Updated On: 3/26/06 at 12:52 AM

[NYCtheater]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#2

Posted: 3/26/06 at 1:44am

Is Charlotte part of the cast or she is helping out with choreography/behind the scenes? I don't remember seeing her name on the cast list.

[somethingwicked]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#3

Posted: 3/26/06 at 1:53am

She also has "A Chorus Line"...

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[ljay889]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#4

Posted: 3/26/06 at 10:55am

Charlotte Rae is in 70 GIRLS 70.

Charlotte d'Amboise is prepping for Cassie in A CHORUS LINE.

Charlotte never really stays away from CHICAGO. I am sure once her run is done in ACL, CHICAGO will still be open. And I'm sure the Weisslers will have her back one more time.

She's played the role on and off for 9 years.

[frogs_fan85]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#5

Posted: 3/27/06 at 6:40pm

Just saw this on telecharge: "Charlotte d'Amboise (4/24 - 5/2"

[Horton]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#6

Posted: 3/27/06 at 6:43pm

Does anybody else feel bad a little bit for Charlotte d'Amboise, I mean she is so talented and nobody really knows her.

[whatyouown223]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#7

Posted: 3/27/06 at 6:51pm

Not really, she's about to be playing a leading role in a new revival.

[ljay889]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#8

Posted: 3/27/06 at 6:53pm

Trust me, after A CHORUS LINE. I think Charlotte will definitely become a bigger Broadway name.

But yep, she is returning to Chicago before ACL!

Charlotte d'Amboise (4/24 - 5/ 28

For a nice month.

Then hopefully bye-bye Chicago. and hello ACL!


Updated On: 3/27/06 at 06:53 PM

[frogs_fan85]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#9

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:06pm

The first time I saw Chicago I missed her but got to see Belle Callaway who was great. I did catch Charlotte in an early preview of Sweet Charity and really enjoyed her performance. Looks like I might make a return trip to Chicago in May.
Updated On: 3/27/06 at 07:06 PM

[dirty rotten guy]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#10

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:10pm

Does anyone know who's Velma Kelly she will be playing against when she returns? I would give anything to see her and Brenda Braxton together again...

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Updated On: 3/27/06 at 07:10 PM

[Doogie]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#11

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:13pm

Feel bad for Charlotte????

WHY?

I'm not saying she isn't amazingly talented, but she is working. Plenty of amazingly talented people with not nearly as much work coming in as for Ms. D'Amboise.

[ljay889]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#12

Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:18pm

Yeah, but being a top notch triple threat that d'Amboise is, she deserves more.

She has become known as the "replacement queen." And she is kind of the Weissler's "bitch" - they throw her in the show whenever they don't feel like looking for a new Roxie.

But this is ALL changing, this fall.

A CHORUS LINE, baby!

[NBC]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#13

Posted: 3/28/06 at 11:13am

It looks like Charlotte will be playing opposite Brenda again, according to telecharge:

Cast Members:
Amra-Faye Wright as Velma (thru 4 /6)
Donna Marie Asbury as Velma (4/7 - 4/16)
Brenda Braxton as Velma (4/17 - 7/23)
Robin Givens as Roxie (thru 4/16)
Tracy Shayne (4/17 - 4/23)
Charlotte d'Amboise (4/24 - 5/28
John O'Hurley as Billy Flynn (thru 4/16)
Lillias White as Matron "Mama" Morton (thru 4/23)
Raymond Bokhour as Amos (thru 6/11)
R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine (thru 12/ 3)

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Updated On: 3/28/06 at 11:13 AM

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#14

Posted: 3/28/06 at 1:09pm

Doogie -- you're 100% correct. Why feel bad for Charlotte? She has consistently worked for YEARS. That's what it's all about in this business. I'd feel bad if she was unemployed for 8 out of the last 10 years, but she's gone from one project to another and worked on several projects simultaneously on occasion. Many actors would KILL to be in that situation. You may think of her as the Weissler's b*tch, but I'm sure she doesn't view it that way. She's been able to leave a Weissler project to have a baby and then she's allowed to return when she wants. She's been allowed to work on other projects and come back to Chicago. I'm sure that's due to the fact that the Weissler's know she's a reliable, talented professional.

Another triple threat that I put in the same category as Charlotte is Karen Ziemba. She's someone who should have been a top-level Broadway star, but she has also ended up the "replacement queen." Many thought that Steel Pier would be her breakout role, but it didn't happen.

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[ljay889]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#15

Posted: 3/28/06 at 1:16pm

Well, Charlotte is the one who started calling herself the "replacement queen."

So I think she must feel a little crappy being the Weissler's "bitch."

Things are going to change for her though.

[bwayondabrain]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#16

Posted: 3/28/06 at 1:23pm

tony buzz 2007...

Charlotte D'Amboise in A CHORUS LINE

:)

[children&art]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#17

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:08pm

i never saw either version, but from things i read it seems a big ole shame that Applegate recovered and Charlotte didn't go further with "Charity".

ooh, spooky - Charlotte played "Lola" in "Damn Yankees" and her boss was "Applegate"...the dumb hack in "Sweet Charity" was named Applegate...oooh!

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[Horton]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#18

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:16pm

Charlotte called herself the replacement queen in one article, and since has said that she regrets it even to this very day.

[ken8631]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#19

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:25pm

Is her hubby (Terrence Mann) going to be in ACL? He was in the movie.... Or will be back as Javert in Les Mis (hope so!)?

[FindingNamo]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#20

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:41pm

"Trust me, after A CHORUS LINE. I think Charlotte will definitely become a bigger Broadway name."

Truse me, that's EXACTLY what they said about Donna McKechnie.

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[Steve2]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#21

Posted: 3/30/06 at 12:10am

Not sure if you saw this.
BWW Article March 29

[CJR]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#22

Posted: 3/30/06 at 8:27am

The dates in the article, from what I can see, are wrong though. (edited to add that at 'early oclock' I read the article wrong and it does state that Charlotte and Brenda will return after Obba) Charlotte and Obba won't return at the same time. Charlotte will come into the company a week later and the intrim Roxie will be the faaaaaaaaaabulous Tracy Shayne.

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Updated On: 3/30/06 at 08:27 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#23

Posted: 4/17/06 at 8:21am

"Triple Threats: Babatunde, d'Amboise and Braxton Return to Broadway's Chicago April 17"

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/98958.html

This is odd. Playbill posted this article today reporting that Charlotte returns tonight, but on Telecharge it says that she does not join until the 24th.

What's the deal?

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[dirty rotten guy]

re: Will Charlotte be coming to CHICAGO?#24

Posted: 4/17/06 at 8:24am

yeah, I think I read somewhere that Robin Givens is staying like a week past John.

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Updated On: 4/17/06 at 08:24 AM