CHICAGO
"Is everybody here….is everybody ready!"…
Edited by Madelyn Miller, the Travellady
FOR THE NEW NATIONAL TOUR OF BROADWAY'S BIGGEST SMASH HIT
MUSICAL
Presented by Dallas Summer Musicals
June 5-17, 2007
CHICAGO continues to "razzle-dazzle" audiences since the
national tour opened to rave reviews at the National Theatre in Washington D.C.
Dallas Summer Musicals will present CHICAGO , starring Lisa Rinna as Roxie, June
5-17, 2007 as their 67th season continues at the Music Hall at Fair Park
 The
Washington Post called it "Stylish and Bold! What you see is what you so
gloriously get." WRC TV entertainment reporter, Arch Campbell said " CHICAGO is
one of this year's great delights! The cast blows the roof off the joint!" "A
killer production." said Rohan Preston of the Star Tribune and Leslie Katz of
the San Francisco Examiner proclaims CHICAGO is "smart, sassy and riveting!"
Produced by Tony® Award winners Barry and Fran Weissler and
under the Tony® Award winning direction of Walter Bobbie and spotlighting the
Tony® Award winning choreography by Ann Reinking in the style of the legendary
Bob Fosse, CHICAGO features the "razzle-dazzle" music and lyrics of master
Broadway multi-award winning composers John Kander and Fred Ebb, with book by
Mr. Ebb and the late Bob Fosse.
Lisa Rinna and Terra C. MacLeod will play the leading roles
of Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, and Tom Wopat steps into the shoes of master
attorney Billy Flynn. Carol Woods plays Matron Mama Morton, Eric Leviton is Amos
Hart, and R. Bean will grace the stage as Mary Sunshine. The company includes
Nicole Bridgewater, David Bushman, Christophe Caballero, John Carroll, Stephanos
Christou, Theresa Coombe, Kelly Crandall, Lenny Daniel, Ivy Fox, Kevin Neil
McCready, Erich McMillan-McCall, Pilar Millhollen, Jill Nicklaus, Kevin Steele,
Jasond Darril Thomas and Ashley Yeater.
Lisa Rinna most recently was seen on the hit ABC TV series
"Dancing with the Stars" as well as participating in the national "Dancing with
the Stars" tour. She hosted the Oxygen TV series "Tease," a new reality show
focusing on up-and-coming hair stylists vying for an ultimate prize. She also
served as co-host of SOAPnet's daily talk show "Soap Talk" from 2002-2006 and
garnered her fourth Emmy® nomination for Talk Show Host for last year's season.
Best known to many daytime TV fans as Billie Reed, the free-spirited character
she portrayed in the NBC hit "Days of Our Lives," she also starred as the
"love-to-hate-her" Taylor McBride on primetime TV's "Melrose Place."
Terra C. MacLeod comes to the National Tour after making
her Broadway debut in the role of Velma Kelly, a role she also originated in the
French production of CHI CAGO in Montreal and Paris.
Tom Wopat returns to the road after starring in Glengarry
Glen Ross on Broadway; he also starred in the Tony Award-winning revival of 42nd
Street . This marked his return to Broadway after a nearly two-year run as
Frank Butler opposite Bernadette Peters in Annie Get Your Gun, for which he
received a Tony® Award nomination. Tom Wopat is well-known to television
audiences for his seven-season run in the TV phenomenon "The Dukes of Hazzard,"
and from his work on the hit CBS sitcom "Cybill."
Carol Woods joins the tour direct from Broadway. Carol's
impressive list of Broadway credits include The Full Monty, Follies, Smokey
Joe's Café, Stepping Out, The Goodbye Girl, Big River, Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas among others. Carol is known to audiences around the world for her
stage, film, television, concert and nightclub performances.
CHICAGO , winner of 6 Tony® Awards including Best Musical
Revival and a Grammy Award for its cast recording, has the distinction of being
Broadway's longest running revival, and celebrated its' 10 year anniversary at
the Ambassador Theatre in New York on November 14 th, 2006. Its story of two
real life murderesses and a lawyer who turns them into media celebrities is a
page right out of today's newspapers.
The immense worldwide success of CHICAGO spawned the
Academy® Award- winning film version. But seeing it live is an experience you
will never forget. The jazz, the style, the music, and the dancing all add up to
an experience that will exhilarate. CHICAGO is a production not to be missed.
And all the reviewers agree. Time Magazine calls it "A
Triumph," Newsweek raves it's "Smashing," and Entertainment Weekly sums it up by
calling CHICAGO "Broadway's Most Electrifying Show."
Also included in Dallas Summer Musicals' 2007 season are
MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT (June 19-July 8); SWEET CHARITY, starring Paige Davis
(July 24-August 5); and the State Fair Musical, Disney's THE LION KING
(September 20-October 21).
All performances will be at the Music Hall at Fair Park;
for complete performance schedules, please visit
dallassummermusicals.org. Season sponsors for Dallas Summer Musicals are
The Dallas Morning News, WFAA TV Channel 8, and American Airlines.
Now celebrating its 67th season, Dallas Summer Musicals,
Inc. (DSM) is the largest producer of live theatrical entertainment in the
Southwest, the second oldest summer theater organization in the United States,
and the sixth largest non-profit theater company. DSM has been entertaining
North Texas audiences with the finest in live, musical theatre entertainment
since 1941.
GIVE THEM THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE…
RAZZLE DAZZLE THEM!
Single tickets, priced from $15-$69, are on sale now at The
Box Office, 542 Preston Royal Shopping Center, and all Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets are also available by calling 214-631-ARTS (2787) or online at
www.ticketmaster.com . For groups of 20 or more, please call 214-426-GROUP.
Madelyn Miller is a travel and food writer who grew up in
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