Winant Begins Run as Chicago's Amos, Jan. 16; Bokhour to Follow
By: BWW News Desk
Two new Amos Hart will enter Chicago in upcoming months.
Bruce Winant, who currently appears as Chaim in the current revival of Fiddler on the Roof, will begin performances as the hapless husband of Roxie Hart on January 16th; he will replace P.J. Benjamin. Raymond Bokhour will take over in the role on March 19th, playing Amos through March 19th. The latter played Amos earlier this year, as well.
On January 16th, three new Chicago cast members will also join the Broadway company. Model/actress Robin Givens will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart, "Seinfeld" and "Dancing with the Stars" actor John O'Hurley will begin his run as Billy Flynn and Amra-Faye Wright, who has appeared in South African stagings of Chicago, A Chorus Line and other musicals, will begin performances as Velma Kelly. They will replace current stars Charlotte D'Amboise, Huey Lewis and Brenda Braxton, respectively.
Winant has also appeared on Broadway in Miss Saigon and My Favorite Year, off-Broadway in Jolson & Co., and on national tour in Chicago and Les Miserables; he will also be seen in the upcoming New York City Opera production of The Most Happy Fella. In addition to Chicago, Bokhour's theatre credits include productions of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Road to Nirvana and The Lesson. Both actors have collected numerous film and television credits.
Bruce Winant, who currently appears as Chaim in the current revival of Fiddler on the Roof, will begin performances as the hapless husband of Roxie Hart on January 16th; he will replace P.J. Benjamin. Raymond Bokhour will take over in the role on March 19th, playing Amos through March 19th. The latter played Amos earlier this year, as well.
On January 16th, three new Chicago cast members will also join the Broadway company. Model/actress Robin Givens will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart, "Seinfeld" and "Dancing with the Stars" actor John O'Hurley will begin his run as Billy Flynn and Amra-Faye Wright, who has appeared in South African stagings of Chicago, A Chorus Line and other musicals, will begin performances as Velma Kelly. They will replace current stars Charlotte D'Amboise, Huey Lewis and Brenda Braxton, respectively.
Winant has also appeared on Broadway in Miss Saigon and My Favorite Year, off-Broadway in Jolson & Co., and on national tour in Chicago and Les Miserables; he will also be seen in the upcoming New York City Opera production of The Most Happy Fella. In addition to Chicago, Bokhour's theatre credits include productions of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Road to Nirvana and The Lesson. Both actors have collected numerous film and television credits.
The smash revival of Chicago,
which opened on November 14th 1996, has reached a run of almost 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.
In addition to Benjamin, D'Amboise, Lewis and Braxton, Chicago also currently features Debra Monk as Matron "Mama" Morton and R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine.
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