O'Hurley to Fill In for Lewis in Chicago Tour, Oct. 28

For two performances only, Chicago veteran John O'Hurley will star as Billy Flynn in the national tour of the hit revival.

O'Hurley will play the oily lawyer for two performances on October 28th at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.  The tour will play the California city, as part of the 2006-2007 Best of Broadway season, from October 24th through November 5th.  Huey Lewis (who joins Broadway's Chicago on November 20th) stars as Billy Flynn for all other performances.

The Chicago national tour is currently playing in Thousand Oaks, CA.  It wraps up in St. Paul in January of 2007.

O'Hurley, who is well-known to TV audiences as the winning star of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and as J. Peterman on "Seinfeld," previously appeared as Billy Flynn on Broadway.  O'Hurley's theatre credits include national tours of The Pirates of Penzance, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Brigadoon, while his many film and TV credits include SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (as the voice of King Neptune), "The Mullets," "Tarzan & Jane," Teddy Bears' Picnic, "Cursed," Love Stinks, Slammed, "General Hospital," "Santa Barbara" and "The Young and the Restless."

Chicago, which opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on November 14th 1996, has reached a run of over 4,100 performances at the Ambassador Theatre (215 W. 49th St.); the show will celebrate its 10 year anniversary in November. Chicago received 6 1997 Tonys (including Best Revival of a Musical) under the direction of Walter Bobbie and the choreography of star Ann Reinking. The revival, based on Bobbie's stylistically stripped-down Encores! staging, featured direction and choreography by Bob Fosse in its original 1975 production. Chicago features a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse.

For more information on Chicago and on the tour, visit www.chicagothemusical.com. For tickets, call Telecharge at 212 239 6200, or visit www.telecharge.com.