I also love how great the roles are in Chicago for females.” It’s such a challenge for an actor but I love a challenge. It’s a far cry from ‘The Sound of Music.’ I love how gritty and sarcastic Chicago is. “Chicago, the play, I was always very much pulled to it since it’s a much darker musical. “Chicago, the city, is a fascinating place,” Floyd said. Much has remained the same in the Windy City a century after Watkins penned her play. The quick-witted vaudevillian Kelly welcomes the audience at the show’s open to “All That Jazz.” During the opening number, the scene cuts to a murder committed in the bedroom of a chorus girl.

Bob Fosse turned it into a musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1975. DeMille produced a silent film version of “Chicago” in 1927. “Chicago” is based on a play of the same name by reporter/playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was assigned to cover the 1924 trials of accused murderers Beulah Annan and Belva Greater for the Chicago Tribune.Ĭecil B.

‘Chicago’ is a one of a kind experience.” I play her differently and I play her differently as the months pass. I remember seeing Catherine Zeta-Jones play this part in ‘Chicago,’ the movie and I just loved her. I just love playing this character, who is so unique. It’ll be different for the audience like it’s different for us. “There are so many nuances that weren’t there when I was last in Spokane. “It’s certainly different for all of us now since we have so much experience playing these parts for so long,” Floyd said. “Chicago” returned to the road in 2021 and Kelly and colleagues have since delivered more than 250 performances. I remember thinking we were just going to take a two-week or four-week break.” “A lot of us don’t remember that we thought back then that our lives would be interrupted briefly. “We were headed to California when we were told everything had to stop,” Floyd said. Days after Chicago’s final performance at the First Interstate, the production was halted due to the pandemic. The big change was that the tour was canceled. “The show was still pretty new to all of us. “We were only 16 performances into our tour when we left Spokane,” Floyd said while calling from Auburn, Alabama. Floyd plays Velma Kelly, the aloof nightclub singer and one of the iconic production’s leads, and was only weeks into the tour. After the touring company of “Chicago” finished a two-night stand at the First Interstate for the Center of the Arts in early March 2020, Logan Floyd looked forward to the evolution of the show.

Further To Fall by Catherine Cowles