Alyssa Milano hopes to appeal audiences when she makes her Broadway debut this fall within the musical “Chicago,” including her superstar to a present that skewers superstar tradition.
“The beauty of theater is that you get to try new things every night,” she tells The Associated Press. “That’s what I used to love about doing theater. And that’s what I hope that I can find again in doing ‘Chicago.’”
Milano, former star of “Who’s the Boss?” and “Charmed,” steps into the function of Roxie Hart on the Ambassador Theatre starting Sept. 16 for an eight-week engagement by means of Nov. 10.
For Milano, hitting the stage is a return to her roots. She was in a nationwide touring firm of “Annie” at age 8 and she or he went on to star in Wendy Wasserstein’s “Tender Offer” on the off-Broadway Ensemble Studio Theater and “All Night Long” at Second Stage. She was within the first American musical adaptation of “Jane Eyre” and produced and starred in a Los Angeles manufacturing of “Butterflies Are Free.”
Milano says doing a stint on Broadway by no means felt proper till now. Her kids — ages 9 and 12 — are settled at school and extracurricular actions, and her husband is in an excellent place in his profession.
“It just felt like when this offer came up that everything fell into place,” she says. “My 9-year-old daughter looked at me and said, ‘Mom, you would be an idiot not to do this.’”
In latest years, she was within the films “Brazen” and “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later” and the Netflix sequence “Insatiable.” Milano additionally leant her stardom and voice to the #MeToo motion, launched clothes, jewellery and eyewear traces and has been a bunch of Lifetime’s “Project Runway All-Stars.”
Set within the Nineteen Twenties, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how present enterprise and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs reminiscent of “All That Jazz” and “Cell Block Tango.”
“Chicago” tells the story of Roxie, a housewife and dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to depart her. To keep away from conviction, Roxie hires Chicago’s slickest legal lawyer to assist her dupe the general public, media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by creating surprising headlines.
Milano says she desires to honor Ann Reinking — the enduring Fosse collaborator who originated Roxie within the 1996 revival and created the choreography in Fosse’s type. “I’m actually attempting to pay homage to her choreography and her portrayal of Roxie. Because she was profound.”
The celebrity-craving heroine on the coronary heart of “Chicago″ has been performed by dozens of girls because the present opened in 1996, together with Pam Anderson, Melanie Griffith, Christie Brinkley, Marilu Henner, Brooke Shields, Lisa Rinna, Gretchen Mol, Ashlee Simpson, Brandy Norwood, Jennifer Nettles and Robin Givens.
Milano hopes followers will come and see her greater than as soon as. “I guarantee you I’m going to keep finding things — keep finding little moments that will, hopefully, add onto the legacy of all the women who came before me.”
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