{"id":337677,"date":"2026-09-04T04:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337677\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:36:31","slug":"natasha-yvette-williams-and-red-concepcion-will-return-to-broadways-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337677\/","title":{"rendered":"NaTasha Yvette Williams and Red Concepci\u00f3n Will Return to Broadway’s Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two former cast members will return to the Tony-winning revival of\u00a0Chicago<\/a> at Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre later this month.<\/p>\n

Grammy winner and Tony nominee\u00a0NaTasha Yvette Williams<\/a> (Some Like It Hot<\/a>, Wicked<\/a>,\u00a0Waitress<\/a>, The Color Purple<\/a>)\u00a0will return to the role of Matron “Mama” Morton, and Red Concepci\u00f3n<\/a>\u00a0(Sumo,\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables Arena Spectacular World Tour)\u00a0will again play\u00a0Amos Hart beginning September 7.<\/p>\n

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

The current Broadway company features\u00a0Ivy as Roxie Hart, Lissa deGuzman<\/a> as Velma Kelly, Max von Essen<\/a> as Billy Flynn, Jacqueline B. Arnold<\/a> as Matron \u201cMama\u201d Morton, Eddie Cooper<\/a> as Amos Hart, and J. Workman<\/a>\u00a0as Mary Sunshine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cast\u00a0is completed by\u00a0Tia Altinay<\/a>, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Austin Dunn<\/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>, Angel Reda<\/a>, Mariah Reives<\/a>, Sean Samuels<\/a>, Jeff Sullivan<\/a>,\u00a0and 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

A Chicago Celebration at Tony Awards 2026: Watch the Performance Here, Including Pink’s ‘All That Jazz’<\/a><\/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":"Two former cast members will return to the Tony-winning revival of\u00a0Chicago at Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre later this month.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-337677","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\/337677","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=337677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}