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By Playbill Staff. June 03, 2020. Graciela Daniele, Chita Rivera, Cheryl Clark, Pamela Sousa, and Candy Brown Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts. John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago first...
- "Roxie"
- "Roxie" Audio only
- "Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag"
- "Nowadays" at The 1984 Tonys
The above video is grainy, but it shows a few numbers from the original production — all starting with a snippet of Verdon performing "Roxie." It even ends with a version of the original ending of Chicago. Rather than it being "Nowadays," Rivera explained in the 2015 PBS career retrospective A Lot of Livin' to Do that the original ending was a song...
Although you won't be able to seeVerdon in this performance of "Roxie," you can still hear how charismatic she was in a live setting and how well the audience responded to her in this full audio of the song.
This video of the Chicago final number comes from a promotional performance that Verdon and Rivera did on the talk show The Mike Douglas Show. (The entire segment with interviews is also available on YouTube.) There's a lower-quality version of them performing "Nowadays" on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosellas well.
About a decade after they debuted the roles of Velma and Roxie, Rivera and Verdon took the stage for the 1984 Tonys. Liza Minnelli introduced Rivera as she sings an abbreviated rendition of "All The Jazz" before Verdon joins her for "Nowadays." As Fosse/Verdon will show, Verdon didn't do every performance of Roxie in the original production. Minnel...
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Jun 3, 2013 · By Brynn Cox. June 03, 2013. The musical featured music and lyrics from Cabaret collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb. Bob Fosse, a recent Tony winner for Pippin, directed and choreographed. Chita...
Jun 10, 2020 · It was a reunion for the two as Stockard replaced Liza Minnelli in another Kander & Ebb musical, The Rink. To recap: Chita was in the original Chicago with Gwen Verdon. Gwen was replaced in Chicago for about a month in the summer of 1975 by Liza Minnelli. Liza starred in The Rink with Chita in 1984 but then Liza was replaced after about 7 ...
