NewsPHOTO CALL: Chicago's Newest Merry Murderesses Jennifer Nettles and Carly Hughes Offer a Steamy Sneak PreviewGrammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jennifer Nettles will make her Main Stem debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago, which recently became Broadway's second longest-running show, on Feb. 2. Also joining the cast that night will be Carly Hughes in the role of Velma. The cast offered a sneak peek for the press today!
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January 29, 2015
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Chicago's Newest Merry Murderesses Jennifer Nettles and Carly Hughes Offer a Steamy Sneak Preview
Chicago's Newest Merry Murderesses Jennifer Nettles and Carly Hughes Offer a Steamy Sneak Preview
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jennifer Nettles will make her Main Stem debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago, which recently became Broadway's second longest-running show, on Feb. 2. Also joining the cast that night will be Carly Hughes in the role of Velma. The cast offered a sneak peek for the press today!
The revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago began life as one of the three annual Encores! presentations offered by City Center. The musical opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in November 1996 where it remained through February 1997. The musical transferred to the Shubert Theatre on Feb. 11, 1997, and played that house through Jan. 26, 2003. The revival reopened at the Ambassador Theatre, its current home, on Jan. 29, 2003.
Chicago won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1997 as well as awards for actors Bebe Neuwirth and James Naughton, director Walter Bobbie, lighting designer Ken Billington and choreographer Ann Reinking. The original production was directed and choreographed by the late Bob Fosse.
The Ambassador Theatre is located at 219 W. 49th Street.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.
