A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Mann left ad was replaced by John Dossett. They still have not announced replacements officially for Ciara and no one for Martin yet. apparently Melanie Griffith is supposed to be taking on a role in the show soon, but again, no official announcement.
I think that's the plan for Arnaz to fill-in while Martin does the tour in LA. But the LA run doesn't start until Oct. 21, which leaves a month in between Martin's Broadway departure and when Arnaz would be able to join the Broadway company.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
I think the general consensus is that Melanie is not a Berthe. I said "a" role not that role. I see her as a Fastrada as well, she's got a good relationship with the Weisslers, I'm sure they'd alter choreography for her if necessary to bump ticket sales.
Lucie Arnaz has a previous commitment (she's directing a workshop) which is why she's not doing the LA engagement in the first place.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I heard she was pretty polarising. Even her greatest admirers seemed to think that her performance worked IN SPITE of what she brought to the table as a "talent". I would imagine that, although a smaller part, Fastrada would be harder to pull off without the requisite song-&-dance skills, and she is in no way right for Berthe.
Jennifer Holliday? (can you imagine?) Lillias White?
"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"
Don't know what performance blaxx was at but Melanie never got booed when I saw her, was more the opposite.
I've seen "Chicago" in the triple digits since Encores! Could Melanie dance? No. Could she sing? No. For some reason it didn't matter. She was Roxie. Her Dancing was very "dumbed down" to fit her abilities. She mostly walked through it dancing wise.
I, honestly, could see her as either Fastrada or Berthe.