Tony Winner Jennifer Holliday Ends Run in Broadway's Chicago July 31 | Playbill

Broadway News Tony Winner Jennifer Holliday Ends Run in Broadway's Chicago July 31

The long-running, Tony-winning revival continues at the Ambassador Theatre.

Jennifer Holliday in Chicago Jeremy Daniel

Tony and Grammy winner Jennifer Holliday ends her limited engagement in the the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Chicago July 31 at the Ambassador Theatre.

The Dreamgirls star, also seen on Broadway in the recent revival of The Color Purple, stepped into the role of Matron "Mama" Morton June 9 for an eight-week run. Holliday originally played the role in summer 2001. She will be succeeded by Charity Angél Dawson beginning August 1, the same day the company welcomes Erich Bergen in the role of Billy Flynn.

The revival of Chicago began life as one of the three annual Encores! presentations offered by City Center. The musical opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in November 14, 1996, where it remained through February 1997. The musical transferred to the Shubert Theatre, and played that house through January 26, 2003. The revival reopened at the Ambassador Theatre January 29 that year.

It is now the second-longest running show in Broadway history (after The Phantom of the Opera). Over the last 25 years, the show has been seen in 36 different countries by 33 million people worldwide.

READ: How the Chicago Costumes Have Evolved Over 25 Years

With a book by the late Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Ebb, Chicago features direction by Walter Bobbie, choreography by the late Ann Reinking, set design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design Ken Billington, sound design by Scott Lehrer, and casting by Stewart/Whitley.

The current production, produced by Barry and Fran Weissler, won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1997 as well as awards for actors Bebe Neuwirth and James Naughton, director Bobbie, lighting designer Billington, and Reinking. The original production was directed and choreographed by the late Fosse.

See New Photos of Jennifer Holliday, Emma Pittman, and Lana Gordon in Chicago

 
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