{"id":322875,"date":"2026-08-17T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322875\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:28:10","slug":"south-korean-pop-star-ivy-makes-broadway-debut-in-chicago-starting-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322875\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean Pop Star Ivy Makes Broadway Debut in Chicago Starting August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korean pop star Ivy makes her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago<\/a> beginning August 17\u00a0at the Ambassador Theatre.<\/p>\n

Ivy is stepping\u00a0into the role of Roxie Hart for a limited
\nengagement through September 6. Following her Broadway run, the artist
\nwill be seen in the same part in the Seoul, South Korea, production of Chicago beginning December 5 at the LG Arts Center Theatre.<\/p>\n

The award-winning actress has also been seen in productions of Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Aida; Wicked<\/a>; Ghost the Musical; Jekyll & Hyde; Urinetown; Dracula; Kiss Me, Kate; Redbook; Ben-Hur; and Memories of Matsuko.<\/p>\n

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August 17 also marks the return of Tony nominee Max von Essen<\/a> (An American in Paris<\/a>, Evita<\/a>) to the role of Billy Flynn.<\/p>\n

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The current cast of Chicago also\u00a0features Sophie Carmen-Jones<\/a> as Velma Kelly,\u00a0Jacqueline B. Arnold<\/a> as Matron \u201cMama\u201d Morton, Eddie Cooper<\/a> as
\nAmos Hart, and J. Workman<\/a> as Mary Sunshine. <\/p>\n

The ensemble includes Tia Altinay<\/a>, Ronnie
\n S. Bowman Jr., Austin Dunn<\/a>, John Michael Fiumara<\/a>, Danielle Marie
\nGonzalez, Chelsea James<\/a>, Christopher Kelley<\/a>, James T. Lane<\/a>, Jenny
\nLaroche, Marty Lawson<\/a>, Joseph London, Kristen Faith Oei<\/a>, Denny Paschall<\/a>,
\n Mariah Reives<\/a>, Sean Samuels<\/a>, Samantha Sturm<\/a>, Jeff Sullivan<\/a>, and Elizabeth Yanick<\/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 now closed 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":"South Korean pop star Ivy makes her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago beginning August 17\u00a0at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-322875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322875","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=322875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}