Givens and DeJean to Swap Chicago Engagements, Feb. 16-March 6
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 09, 2006
Robin Givens and Michele DeJean will change places as Chicago's Roxie Hart for three weeks, from February 15th through March 6th. Givens will play the merry murderess in the national tour's engagment at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, while DeJean will assume the role on Broadway.
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Givens ("The Cosby Show," "Diff'rent Strokes," Boomerang), who is making her Broadway debut in Chicago, will leave the Broadway cast of Chicago on February 12th and return on March 6th; her engagment runs through March 26th. DeJean is a Chicago veteran, having previously played Roxie and Mona on Broadway; she has also appeared in productions of West Side Story, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar, among others.
The Broadway cast of Chicago also features Amra-Faye Wright, John O'Hurley and Lillias White, while DeJean, Terra C. MacLeod, Carol Woods and Gregory Harrison headline the touring company of Chicago.
The revival of Chicago,
which opened on November 14th 1996, has reached a run of over 3,800
performances. Currently at the Ambassador Theatre (215 W. 49th St.), it
has yo-yoed from
the Richard Rodgers Theatre to the Shubert Theatre to the present one.
The Chicago revival opened
with Ann Reinking as Roxie, Bebe Neuwirth as Velma, Joel Grey as Amos
and James Naughton as Billy. Under Walter Bobbie's direction and
Reinking's choreography, Chicago, which features a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, received
6 1997 Tonys (including Best Revival of a Musical). The revival, based
on Bobbie's stylistically stripped-down Encores! staging, featured
direction and choreography by Fosse in its original 1975
production.
