CHICAGO
WELCOMES
Two-Time Tony Award Nominee
KATE BALDWIN
and
Tony Award Winner
ALEX NEWELL
Broadway’s record-breaking hit musical Chicago has just announced that two-time Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!) and Tony Award winner Alex Newell (Shucked) will join the cast as “Roxie Hart” and “Matron ‘Mama’ Morton”, respectively. Kate Baldwin will take over the role beginning Monday, November 10, and Alex Newell will join the cast beginning Monday, November 17 at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th St., NYC).
Chicago is Broadway’s longest running American musical in Broadway history, celebrating its 29th anniversary this November.
Kate Baldwin is a two-time Tony Award nominee and four-time Drama Desk nominee, having starred on Broadway as Irene Molloy in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly! and the 2009 revival of Finian's Rainbow as Sharon McLonergan. Other Broadway: Sandra Bloom in Big Fish, The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie (original cast) and Wonderful Town. Off Broadway: Leslie Lynnton Benedict in Giant (Public), Jen in John & Jen (Keen), Charlotte in Superhero (Second Stage).
Television: NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU,” Disney’s “Just Beyond,” HBO’s “The Gilded Age” and two PBS specials, “First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb” and “Live from Lincoln Center: Stephen Sondheim’s Passion.” 2023 Midwest Emmy nominee for producing and starring in “Broadway Comes Home.” Graduate: Northwestern University. www.kate-baldwin.com
Alex Newell recently made history with their Tony Award win for the hit musical Shucked. They are a Drama Desk Award Winner and a recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical. Newell starred as the God “Asaka” in the 2018 Broadway revival of Once On This Island. This show earned Newell a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album, and the show won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
About CHICAGO
With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago is now the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history.
The current cast of Chicago features Mira Sorvino as Roxie Hart, Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Tam Mutu as Billy Flynn, Angela Grovey as Matron “Mama” Morton, Raymond Bokhour as Amos Hart and R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine. The cast also includes Zach Bravo, David Bushman, Jessica Ernest, Jeff Gorti, Chelsea James, Arian Keddell, James T. Lane, Marty Lawson, Joseph London, Barrett Martin, Sharon Moore, Drew Nellessen, Celina Nightengale, Kristen Faith Oei, Denny Paschall, Mikayla Renfrow, Sean Samuels, Samantha Sturm.
Produced by Barry and Fran Weissler, Chicago is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Recording.
Directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Tony Award winner Ann Reinking, Chicago features set design by Tony Award winner John Lee Beatty, costume design by Tony Award winner William Ivey Long, lighting design by Tony Award winner Ken Billington, sound design by Tony Award winner Scott Lehrer, casting by ARC/Duncan Stewart, CSA & Patrick Maravilla and Executive Producer Alecia Parker.
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, Chicago is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her. Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today's tabloids.