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MichiFan

tour cast changes

New girl alert: Melissa Rae Mahon, of Producers (the movie and the show) and 42nd St, is replacing Angel Reda as Go to Hell Kitty on the tour.

She's hot, she can sing, she has a rockin' body.

Kev, you'd adore her.

Big big welcome. She starts Sunday Very Happy
Linda

I guess I'll see her in Newark.

Any news on Billy Flynn because Tom Wopat is doing the gig at Feinsteins and Gregory Harrison supposedly is only through Raleigh.
Linda

found this recent article about Melissa
http://www.andovertownsman.com/news/20051124/AE_001.html

looks like she'll be with the tour only until April when she goes and performs in Mame at the Kennedy Center with Christine Baranski
franelWB

Robin Givens was just on The View and Star Jones said that Robin will be on Broadway thru Feb. 14 and then she is joining the national tour for 3 weeks. Does anyone know who will be Roxie on Broadway during that time? Is Robin coming back to the show after the national tour? Telecharge.com doesn't have any info.
Linda

February 14?
I thought she was in it until March.

here's an article that says March 26
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/6634
franelWB

I remember reading March 26 as well, but I taped her segment on The View and listened to it again just to double check and Feb. 14 is what Star said. Maybe she is returning to the Broadway company after her 3 weeks in the tour? I don't remember reading anything about that online, but Robin didn't correct her. Interesting...!
Linda

Interesting that starting Feb 15 for three weeks the tour is in Detroit.
Maybe sales have been slow so this is an attempt to get some people in the seats.

Some Robin Givens fans are going to be very unhappy if it turns out that she is leaving the Broadway show so soon. I have a flyer right here in my office cubicle advertising Robin Givens and John O'Hurley until March 26.

And the Telecharge website still hasn't changed if this is true!
franelWB

Yeah, it is interesting they have advertised her so much on Broadway and then put her into the tour, happening so soon, without really any press/internet stories. Someone on another board posted this for the Chicago stop in Detroit and it has Robin's name on it.

http://www.nederlanderdetroit.com/fisher/index.htm

Any ideas if Belle Calaway would be Roxie in NY? Is she still a standy?
ByeByeBirdieFan89

I wish she would play the NJPAC stop!
Linda

Michelle DeJean will be switching with Robin Givens for the 3 weeks.

Michelle will rejoin the tour in Sacramento.

No sure whether Robin Givens rejoins the Broadway company after Detroit but given the advertising including the Times Square billboard she most likely will.
franelWB

Thanks for the info! Smile
SupremeDiva

ByeByeBirdie, bite your tongue. I do NOT want to see Givens in Newark. No way, no how. If you can get to Newark to see her, you can go the extra 20 minutes to NYC. Very Happy

I want DeJean in Newark. (Im seeing it on my bday, so Im being especially bitchy lol)
Kev

franel...

Belle is no longer in the NYC company. and we were put under the impression that she's gone for good.
franelWB

Thanks Kev for the update on Belle.
Kev

Current tour cast, as of this week in Delaware (I feel like these people change as much as the Bway cast)

Michelle DeJean
Terra MacLeod
Obba Babatunde
Kevin Carolan
Carol Woods
R. Bean
Fred: Kevin Neil McCready
Fogarty/ Judge: David Kent
Liz: Nicole Bridgewater
Annie: Ivy Fox
June: Theresa Combe
Hunyak: Jillana Laufer
Mona: Jill Nicklaus
Kitty: Melissa Rae Mahon
Harry: Charlie Brumbly
Doctor/ Martin Harrison: Erich McMillan-McCall
Aaron: David Bushman
Bailiff/ Court Clerk: John Carroll
Jury: Christopher Caballero

U/S
Roxie: Nicole, Tonya Wathen
Velma: Nicole, Ivy
Billy: Kevin, Erich
Amos: Lenny Daniel, David Kent
Mama: Ivy Fox
Fred: Nick Adams, Lenny Daniel
Mary: Christopher, Nick
Swings: Nick, Lenny, Tonya

playbill courtesy of my dear sweet Mom, who saw the show with a girlfriend. mother LOVED DeJean, and she's seen her share of Roxies from Marilu to Paige. She said MDJ nailed the role in every way, but did comment on a little tummy and turkey drumstick legs. She praised Terra too (as well she should have...bring Ms. Stunning back to B'way!), and said the tour was in overall great shape.
Linda

Kev wrote:
She said MDJ nailed the role in every way, but did comment on a little tummy and turkey drumstick legs.


Turkey drumstick legs? MDJ? Smile

Anyway, thanks for posting that cast list. Looks like three female cast members changes; none for the guys.
Theresa Coombe the new June has an official website.
Kev

Linda wrote:
Kev wrote:
She said MDJ nailed the role in every way, but did comment on a little tummy and turkey drumstick legs.


Turkey drumstick legs? MDJ? Smile

Anyway, thanks for posting that cast list. Looks like three female cast members changes; none for the guys.
Theresa Coombe the new June has an official website.


yeah there are a handful in the program who have webpages
therese was also in the movie, though I haven't looked yet
Linda

Kev wrote:
yeah there are a handful in the program who have webpages


really?

did a quick search on Google and other than Terra and Michelle, I'm not coming up with anything.
SupremeDiva

Kev wrote:
She praised Terra too (as well she should have...bring Ms. Stunning back to B'way!)


For now, Terra is contracted on tour until June. Not sure if she'll extend, come back to Broadway or go onto other endeavours.
MichiFan

[edited to avoid silly fights but i still think that comment was unnecessary]
Kev

saw that comin'...

bottom line: if you're in Chicago, there will inevitably be comments on how one looks. (and regardless, that doesn't affect my opinion of their performances).

i can think of quite a few people who are larger than the average bear that have been in CHICAGO that no one has commented on. why start now? ...oh but we have *definitely commented on some of them in the past Wink
MichiFan

i would have said that if it was posted about ANYone in the current tour. as i said, they all look amazing. i'm not sticking up for anyone here, they can speak for themselves, i am just saying, i thought it was unnecessary.

and if you saw it coming, why did you post it? just to see if i would react? it seems an unimportant comment.

and i dont think what you say is true. i think if someone in this show is, by your standards, "fat", they are never going to be the best at their part.
Kev

MichiFan wrote:

and if you saw it coming, why did you post it? just to see if i would react? it seems an unimportant comment.


I posted it because it was included in ma mere's comments. I was not intending to spark a reaction from you...I just expected it regardless. you wouldn't be making this big a deal out of it if it wasn't MDJ.
ByeByeBirdieFan89

Random questions.

I saw MDJ in the role. But can't remember. She does the MAMB leaps, correct?

Paige Davis did them also, right?

The leaps seem to becoming rare these days, so just wondering. I know they are both great dancers, I assume they did the leaps. Too bad I can't remember.
Kev

ByeByeBirdieFan89 wrote:
Random questions.

I saw MDJ in the role. But can't remember. She does the MAMB leaps, correct?

Paige Davis did them also, right?


Michelle did them. Paige did not. at least when I caught them.
SupremeDiva

Paige did not do them when I saw her on Broadway
cabaretfreak

I'm from the show!!! OH MY GOD!!! Best show ever. Michelle DeJean rocked Roxie!!! I was up front and she through roses from the rose bouca thing she gets with Velma To me!! AHHHHHHHHH! AWASOME SHOW!
Linda

Would you care to write a fan review of the show you saw for my fan website?

www.broadwayfocus.com/chicago3nt/
MichiFan

you'd have to do a bit of spelling and grammar editing...

my roommate wrote a review of the performance in n. charleston for a class at school if you want hers. she was a first timer so its pretty fresh. hurrah.
Linda

would love to have your roommates review Smile

just PM me or email me at linda [AT] broadwayfocus.com
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