CHICAGO has officially launched its 2023-2024 Australian tour this evening, with its official opening night taking place as this goes live. Set to run at Crown Theatre until 17 December, the production will then move across Australia, gracing stages at Lyric Theatre QPAC from 2 January 2024, Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne from 23 March, the Capitol Theatre in Sydney from 9 June, and concluding at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide from 4 August.
The 2023-2024 season’s cast includes some notable names in the industry, including Anthony Warlow as the suave lawyer Billy Flynn, Zoë Ventoura as Velma Kelly, Lucy Maunder as Roxie Hart, Peter Rowsthorn as Roxie’s naive husband Amos, and Asabi Goodman who will portray the tough yet sassy Matron ‘Mama’ Morton. With S. Valeri is set to feature as Mary Sunshine, the soft-hearted crime reporter, the show’s ensemble and swing cast consists of Hayden Baum, Devon Braithwaite, Olivia Carniato, Angelique Cassimatis, Todd Dewberry, Louis Fontaine, Sarah Heath, Scout Hook, Matthew Jenson, Ethan Jones, Savannah Lind, Kristina McNamara, Tom New, Nathan Pinnell, Rania Potaka-Osborne, Priscilla Stavrou, and Romina Villafranca – all of whom will be portraying some bedazzling choreography and vocals.
Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live expressed his excitement about the new production, sharing:
We’re so looking forward to opening our new production of CHICAGO tonight in Perth, and touring it across Australia. We have an extraordinary cast led by Anthony Warlow, Zoë Ventoura, Lucy Maunder, Peter Rowsthorn and Asabi Goodman alongside the hottest ensemble in town. CHICAGO has everything that people love about a Broadway musical – a story of fame, fortune and all that jazz, one show-stopping number after another and the most amazing dancing you’ve ever seen. Come along and enjoy the razzle dazzle of this New York institution.
Set amidst the decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her. Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer Billy Flynn to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines… the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today’s tabloids.
