Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
#1Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 10:31pmDoes anyone have any inside info?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 10:47pmYes
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#2Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:17pmWhat is it. And if you're pulling my leg one word DON'T
#3Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:29pmSorry to double post, but with Samantha Barks playing Velma, are they going to cast young for Roxie? Not teenage young, I'm talking Amanda Seyfried young
#4Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:31pmSomeone on the other thread said Julianne Hough was gonna play Roxie, not sure if they had real inside info though.
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#5Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:39pmWell Julianne is a dancer at heart. Plus she's just the right age to compliment Samantha Barks as Velma
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#6Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:53pmIf it is Julianne Hough, I really need to get down to the Hollywood Bowl. Can she sing it?
#7Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/7/13 at 11:59pmRoxie requires a very limited range. It was written for Gwen Verdon after her singing voice had seriously declined.
Plannietink08
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/11
#8Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 12:16amJulianne Hough sounds pretty legit and like mentioned above, she would compliment the casting of Sam Barks. To have a 22 year old against a 40 year old woman would look sad and pretty tacky, a bad mother + daughter story - like Carrie high on viagra.
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wssinsider
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/08
#9Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 10:26am
Ashlee Simpson will play Roxie.
Press release will come out this week.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#11Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 12:21pm
If his name is wssinsider, he obviously has inside information.
Duh.
#13Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:05pmI would be great for Julianne to be cast as Roxie. She's a phenomenal dancer. How is she as a singer?
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#14Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:11pmWell she's pretty good. She's more of a country singer but I think could def. do Roxie.
#15Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:19pmHough's voice has zero personality and she is the definition of bland. This entire production sounds like the Miscast benefit, seems like a wasted opportunity on so many fronts.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#16Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:23pmReally? Cause I thought Julianne's debut song "That Song in my Head" was pretty good. Vocally I mean
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#17Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 5:36pm
It's confirmed. I'm a little disappointed. I feel like Samantha is too good for the cast they assembled.
Ashlee Simpson to play Roxie
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#19Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 5:53pmI'm actually amused by the casting, especially Drew Carey. I was a Whose Line fan back when it originally aired.
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#20Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:03pmHe has consistently proven himself to be a decent, if not stellar, musical comedy performer. Even back in his days on the Drew Carey show, he made sure to include song and dance consistently, including a memorable full cast performance of "Brotherhood of Man."
#21Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:05pm
Also, was Liza Minelli's guest appearance in Chicago the beginning of the gradual trend towards "young and sexy" which, admittedly, she was at the time?
Everything I've read has suggested that the initial idea for Velma and Roxie was to have women in their late forties to mid-fifties. These characters and the other vamps around them would be not girls, not women, but DAMES. Dame is a title of honor now, for women of nobility... there are still "Dames," but there just aren't dames anymore.
wssinsider
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/08
#22Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:09pm
told you guys. 
Ashlee Simpson is a bad choice indeed.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#23Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:17pmWill this be the first time a Roxie does a hoedown jig?
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#24Casting Roxie Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: 7/8/13 at 6:19pmDid anyone see her in London? She's done it before (not that that means she's any good)
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