Loose Women and Strictly stars team up for exciting project
The acclaimed Chicago musical is touring the UK and Ireland with Loose Women's Brenda Edwards and Strictly Come Dancing's Kevin Clifton in the cast.
The 1920s-set jazz musical features former Coronation Street actor Faye Brookes as nightclub singer Roxie Hart and West End star Djalenga Scott as her cell frenemy Velma Kelly.
The protagonists will be joined by Edwards as Mama Morton and Clifton as lawyer Billy Flynn, while Joshua Lloyd will portray Amos Hart and Jordan Lee Davies will be Mary Sunshine.
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Performances start on October 12 at Milton Keynes Theatre, with the show running till August 2025. The UK and Ireland tour includes stops in Manchester, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin and Cardiff, among many others.
Chicago tells the story of housewife and singer Roxie Hart, who murders her lover after he threatens to leave her. Roxie hires famed criminal lawyer Billy Flynn, who manages to spin the narrative of her crime and his client experiences fame as a collateral to her trial.
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In jail, Roxie meets vaudevillian Velma Kelly, who killed both her husband and her sister when she found out they were having an affair.
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Cast for the musical is rounded out by Bethany Adamson, Victoria Anderson, Josh Crowther, Joe Dale, Jessica Keable, Robin Kent, Annabelle Laing, Jacob McLay Reid, Jonathan Milton, George Olney, Oliver Ramsdale, Elly Shaw, Lucy Anne Stacey, Matthew Sweet and Ria Tanaka.
Tickets start at £15 and are available to buy now.
The 1975 musical, an adaptation of a 1926 play of the same name, made its big screen debut in a 2002 movie directed by Rob Marshall and starring Renée Zellweger as Roxie Hart, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly, and Richard Gere as Billy Flynn.
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