{"id":212661,"date":"2026-04-28T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:44:07","slug":"nik-walker-will-join-broadway-cast-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212661\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Walker Will Join Broadway Cast of Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent Masquerade star\u00a0Nik Walker<\/a> will give ’em the old razzle\u00a0dazzle in the long-running production of Chicago<\/a>\u00a0beginning May 4 at the Ambassador Theatre.<\/p>\n

Walker<\/a> will step into the role of slick lawyer Billy Flynn the same day the Tony-winning revival welcomes back\u00a0Rachel Schur<\/a>\u00a0(Jersey Boys<\/a>, national tour of\u00a0A Chorus Line)\u00a0to the role of merry murderess\u00a0Roxie Hart.<\/p>\n

Walker’s Broadway credits also include Sir Galahad in Spamalot<\/a> and\u00a0Aaron Burr in Hamilton<\/a>.\u00a0On screen, he\u2019s been seen in Blue Bloods, Law and Order: SVU, and President Curtis.<\/p>\n

Check out Chicago merchandise in the Playbill Store<\/a><\/p>\n

The current cast of Chicago features Whitney Leavitt<\/a> as Roxie Hart, Sophie Carmen-Jones<\/a> as Velma Kelly, Mark Ballas<\/a> as Billy Flynn, Jacqueline B. Arnold<\/a> as Matron \u201cMama\u201d Morton, Greg Hildreth<\/a> as Amos Hart, and R. Lowe<\/a> as Mary Sunshine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company also includes Tia Altinay<\/a>, Zach Bravo<\/a>, Austin Dunn<\/a>, Jennifer Dunne<\/a>, John Michael Fiumara<\/a>, Danielle Marie Gonzalez<\/a>, Chelsea James<\/a>, Christopher Kelley<\/a>, James T. Lane<\/a>, Jenny Laroche<\/a>, Marty Lawson<\/a>, Joseph London, Kristen Faith Oei<\/a>, Denny Paschall<\/a>,\u00a0Mariah Reives<\/a>, Sean Samuels<\/a>, Samantha Sturm<\/a>, and\u00a0Jeff Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: Whitney Leavitt Knows What You Think of Her, and She’s Happy to Prove You Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Since its debut in 1996, Chicago has played in 36 countries
\nand been seen by 33 million people worldwide. It is now the
\nsecond-longest running show in Broadway history (after the recently
\nclosed The Phantom of the Opera).<\/p>\n

READ: How the Chicago Costumes Have Evolved Over 25 Years<\/a><\/p>\n

With a book by the late Fred Ebb<\/a> and Bob Fosse<\/a>, music by John Kander<\/a>, and lyrics by Ebb, Chicago
\n features direction by Walter Bobbie<\/a>, choreography by the late Ann
\nReinking, set design by John Lee Beatty<\/a>, costume design by William Ivey
\nLong, lighting design by Ken Billington<\/a>, sound design by Scott Lehrer<\/a>,
\nand casting by ARC.<\/p>\n

The current production, produced by Barry and Fran Weissler<\/a>, won the
\nTony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1997 as well as awards for
\nactors Bebe Neuwirth<\/a> and James Naughton<\/a>, director Bobbie, lighting
\ndesigner Billington, and Reinking. The original production was directed
\nand choreographed by the late Fosse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent Masquerade star\u00a0Nik Walker will give ’em the old razzle\u00a0dazzle in the long-running production of Chicago\u00a0beginning May 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}