Barry & Fran Weissler present CHICAGO Book by Music by Lyrics by Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse John Kander Fred Ebb Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Bob Fosse Starring Tracy Shayne Terra C. MacLeod Tony Yazbeck Ron Orbach Also Starring Kecia Lewis-Evans D. Micciche Shamicka Benn Rachel Bickerton Lenny Daniel Philip Groft Daniel Gutierrez Brent Heuser Marla McReynolds Celia Merendi Jill Nicklaus Nina Ordman Adam Pellegrine Steven Sofia Jasond Thomas Melanie Waldron Colt Adam Weiss Corey Wright Supervising Music Director Music Director Rob Fisher Eric Barnes Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design John Lee Beatty William Ivey Long Ken Billington Sound Design Orchestrations Dance Music Arrangements Scott Lehrer Ralph Burns Peter Howard Script Adaptation Casting Musical Coordinator David Thompson Duncan Stewart & Company John Monaco Executive Producer Presented in Association with Alecia Parker Broadway Across America General Management Tour Marketing & Press B.J. Holt Anita Dloniak & Associates, Inc. Technical Supervisor Production Stage Manager Arthur Siccardi Tom Bartlett Based on the presentation by City Center’s Encores! Choreographer Original New York Production Re-creation of Original Production Ann Reinking Choreography by In the style of Bob Fosse Gary Chryst Director Original New York Re-creation of Original Production Production Direction by Walter Bobbie Scott Faris Broadway Cast Recording on RCA Victor CAST (in order of appearance) Velma Kelly .............................................................................................TERRA C. MacLEOD Roxie Hart ..................................................................................................... TRACY SHAYNE Fred Casely .....................................................................................................BRENT HEUSER Sergeant Fogarty ...........................................................................................COREY WRIGHT Amos Hart .......................................................................................................... RON ORBACH Liz ................................................................................................................... JILL NICKLAUS Annie .....................................................................................................MELANIE WALDRON June ..................................................................................................... RACHEL BICKERTON Hunyak. ........................................................................................................... NINA ORDMAN Mona ............................................................................................................. CELIA MERENDI Matron “Mama” Morton ...................................................................... KECIA LEWIS-EVANS Billy Flynn .................................................................................................... TONY YAZBECK Mary Sunshine .....................................................................................................D. MICCICHE Go-to-Hell-Kitty .........................................................................................SHAMICKA BENN Harry .......................................................................................................ADAM PELLEGRINE The Doctor ............................................................................................................ PHIL GROFT Aaron ...........................................................................................................JASOND THOMAS The Judge .......................................................................................................COREY WRIGHT The Bailiff ............................................................................................. DANIEL GUTIERREZ Martin Harrison .......................................................................................ADAM PELLEGRINE Court Clerk ............................................................................................................ PHIL GROFT The Jury .. .......................................................................................................LENNY DANIEL THE SCENE: Chicago, Illinois. The late 1920s. UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute a listed player unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. For Roxie Hart—JILL NICKLAUS For Velma Kelly—MELANIE WALDRON For Billy Flynn—BRENT HEUSER For Amos Hart—LENNY DANIEL For Matron “Mama” Morton—RACHEL BICKERTON For Mary Sunshine—P. GROFT Dance Captain—STEVEN SOFIA The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. 3 PLAYBILL MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I “All That Jazz” ........................................................................................... Velma and Company “Funny Honey” ...................................................................................................................Roxie “Cell Block Tango” ............................................................................................Velma and Girls “When You’re Good to Mama” ............................................................Matron “Mama” Morton “Tap Dance”. ........................................................................................... Roxie, Amos and Boys “All I Care About” ............................................................................................... Billy and Girls “A Little Bit of Good” .........................................................................................Mary Sunshine “We Both Reached for the Gun” ............................Billy, Roxie, Mary Sunshine and Company “Roxie” ...............................................................................................................Roxie and Boys “I Can’t Do It Alone” .........................................................................................................Velma “My Own Best Friend” .................................................................................... Roxie and Velma INTERMISSION ACT II Entr’acte ........................................................................................................................The Band “I Know a Girl” ..................................................................................................................Velma “Me and My Baby” .............................................................................................Roxie and Boys “Mister Cellophane” ..........................................................................................................Amos “When Velma Takes the Stand” ........................................................................Velma and Boys “Razzle Dazzle” ............................................................................................Billy and Company “Class” .............................................................................. Velma and Matron “Mama” Morton “Nowadays” ..................................................................................................... Roxie and Velma “Hot Honey Rag” ............................................................................................. Roxie and Velma Finale .............................................................................................................................Company Original choreography for “Hot Honey Rag” by Bob Fosse ORCHESTRA Musical Director—Eric Barnes Associate Conductor/Piano/Accordion—Ethyl Will Pianist—Jeff Harris; Drums/Percussion—Russ Nyberg The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. 4 Who’s Who in the CAST TRACY SHAYNE (Roxie Hart) joins Rain (MUNY), My One and Only (Goodspeed, the tour direct from playing Roxie Hart in Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Antony and the current Broadway production. Other Cleopatra (Hartford Stage), Sycamore Trees Broadway: Christine in Phantom: “There is (Signature, Helen Hayes Award), Animal no better Christine anywhere on this earth!”— Crackers (Goodman). Film/TV: Every Little Hal Prince; Roxie in Chicago; Fosse (coached Step (feature documentary), “All My Children,” by Gwen Verdon); Cosette in Les Misérables; “As the World Turns.” www.tonyyazbeck.net. Bebe in A Chorus Line. Off Broadway: Marion Froude in Biography: “one of the most RON ORBACH (Amos Hart). The first Amos on memorable individual performances in the first national tour (1997 Jeff Award). Broadway: 2009”—The Wall Street Journal; Martha Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Chicago, etc. Off- in Missing Footage; Sunny Jacobs in The Broadway: The God Commitee, etc. Regional: Exonerated. TV: “L&O,” “L&O: C.I.,” Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago “Kennedy Center Honors,” “Tribute to Shakespeare Theater; Tevye at Sacramento Hal Prince,” “Baryshnikov on Broadway.” Music Circus; Pseudolus at Denver Center; also Recordings: Grammy award Symphonic Roundabout, The Alley, Berkshire Theatre Festival, recording: Les Misérables (Cosette.). La Jolla Playhouse, The Goodman. TV: “Medium,” “Numb3rs,” “Without a Trace,” “Law & Order,” TERRA C. MacLEOD (Velma Kelly) is thrilled “Platypus Man,” etc. Film: Clueless. Married for to return to her Chicago family. She has played ten blissful years to Kathleen Eads. the role around the world from Broadway to the West End (Cambridge theatre), French KECIA LEWIS-EVANS (Matron “Mama”