Erika Jayne went from Beverly Hills to Chicago.
In September 2019, the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star introduced on Instagram that she was set to star in Broadway’s manufacturing of Chicago in New York Metropolis from January 6 to March 29, 2020. The Bravo persona scored the function of the musical’s lead, Roxie Hart, a girl who’s on trial for the homicide of her husband.
“BROADWAY. ROXIE HART. JAN 6.” she captioned a Chicago poster of her in a leopard-print go well with.
Two months after taking the stage, the singer was pressured to finish her Broadway run early as a result of COVID-19 shutdown.
“Properly this isn’t the best way I wished to say goodbye to Roxie and my Chicago household however I’ve no selection,” Jayne wrote by way of Instagram in March 2020. “THANK YOU from the underside of my coronary heart to everybody that got here to the reveals . I depart NYC feeling like my mission is incomplete however I’ll treasure this time at all times.”
The “Xxpensive” performer is way from the primary movie star (and Bravolebrity) to make her Broadway debut in Chicago. Stars from Spice Women member Mel B to mannequin Christie Brinkley have taken the stage within the musical, which relies on journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 play of the identical title and the assorted homicide circumstances she reported on. The story, which follows Roxie’s authorized troubles from her arrest to her trial, is claimed to be a satire on the idea of the “movie star felony.”
Chicago debuted on Broadway in 1975. The present was nominated for almost a dozen Tony Awards, together with Finest Musical and Finest Route of a Musical for Bob Fosse, and ran for 2 years. Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996 and took dwelling six Tonys for classes corresponding to Excellent Revival of a Musical and Excellent Choreography. The present holds the report for the second longest-running musical revival in Broadway historical past behind The Phantom of the Opera.
The musical was tailored right into a film of the identical title starring Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2002. The movie went on to win six Oscars on the seventy fifth Academy Awards for classes corresponding to Finest Image and Finest Supporting Actress for Zeta-Jones, who performed Velma Kelly, a showgirl who’s arrested for the homicide of her husband and sister and turns into considerably of a mentor to Roxie.
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