{"id":260549,"date":"2026-06-09T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/260549\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:11:00","slug":"south-korean-pop-star-ivy-to-star-in-chicago-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/260549\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean pop star Ivy to star in &#8216;Chicago&#8217; on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean pop star Ivy will make her Broadway debut in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/22-chicago-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> this summer, performing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/venues\/ambassador-theatre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ambassador Theatre<\/a> for three weeks only from August 17 to September 6.<\/p>\n<p>Ivy has performed in over a dozen musicals in South Korea, including Chicago, for which she won the 2012 Korean Musical Award for Best New Actress. She played Roxie Hart, the role she will also perform on Broadway. As a solo musician, she has released three studio albums and two EPs and won multiple Korean music awards.<\/p>\n<p>She will succeed Krysta Rodriguez, who plays Roxie from June 15 to August 16. The current Chicago cast also includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/sophie-carmen-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Carmen-Jones<\/a> as Velma Kelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/nik-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nik Walker<\/a> as Billy Flynn (through June 21; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/matteo-lane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Lane<\/a> joins June 22), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/jacqueline-b-arnold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacqueline B. Arnold<\/a> as Matron &#8220;Mama&#8221; Morton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/greg-hildreth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Hildreth<\/a> as Amos Hart, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/r-lowe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R. Lowe<\/a> as Mary Sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>One of Broadway&#8217;s longest-running productions, Chicago celebrates its 30th anniversary on Broadway this year.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/22-chicago-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Ivy. (Photo courtesy of production)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean pop star Ivy will make her Broadway debut in Chicago this summer, performing at the Ambassador&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-260549","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\/260549","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=260549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}