The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- November 14, 1996
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 9,999
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Other stagings of Chicago 2 more that season
| 1926 | Music Box Theatre Original · George Abbott | 172 perf. |
| 1975 | 46th Street Theatre Revival · Bob Fosse | 936 perf. |
Who was in it302 named
D Sabella
Bruce Anthony Davis
Denise Faye
Rocker Verastique
Sophie Carmen Jones
Rachel Schur
Nik Walker
R Lowe
Tia Altinay
John Michael Fiumara
Jenny Laroche
Kristen Faith Oei
Denny Paschall
Mariah Reives
Sean Samuels
Samantha Sturm
Jeff Sullivan
C Caballero
Gary Cooper
Sam Lips
Gregory Mitchell
Katie Mitchell
Beth Johnson Nicely
Jermaine R Rembert
Jenny Lynn Suckling
Charlotte D Amboise
Marilu Henner
Chuck Cooper
Jennifer Holliday
Timothy J Alex
Michael Arnold
Donna Marie Asbury
Brent Barrett
Rob Bartlett
Hinton Battle
R Bean
P. J. Benjamin
Mark Bove
Marc Calamia
Belle Calaway
Kevin Chamberlin
Mindy Paige Davis
Taye Diggs
Bernard Dotson
Bryn Dowling
Sandy Duncan
Shawn Emamjomeh
Jennifer Frankel
Jason Gillman
Deidre Goodwin
Louis Gossett Jr
Greg Graham
Jasmine Guy
Michael C Hall
Suzanne Harrer
Ruthie Henshall
Mary Ann Hermansen
Gregory Jbara
Ron Kellum
Alix Korey
Sebastian Lacause
Sharon Lawrence
Lisa Leguillou
Ute Lemper
Daniel C Levine
Vicki Lewis
Dan Lobuono
J Loeffenholz
J Maldonado
Bianca Marroquin
Tom McGowan
Erich Mcmillan Mccall
James Mitchell
Petra Nielsen
Caroline O'Connor
Michele Pawk
Clarke Peters
Stephanie Pope
Ron Raines
Greg Reuter
Kevin Richardson
Krissy Richmond
J Roberson
Roz Ryan
Ernie Sabella
Solange Sandy
A Saunders
Randy Slovacek
Amy Spanger
Mark Anthony Taylor
Alan Thicke
Robert Urich
Nana Visitor
Jennifer West
Darlene Wilson
Eric Jordan Young
Billy Zane
Karen Ziemba
Mel B
Kate Baldwin
Mark Ballas
Erich Bergen
Christie Brinkley
Jaime Camil
Maxwell Caulfield
Dylis Croman
Brandon Victor Dixon
Lana Gordon
Robyn Hurder
James Monroe Iglehart
Erika Jayne
Nancy Lemenager
Peter Lockyer
Terra C Macleod
Ariana Madix
Shiri Maimon
Kimberly Marable
Jeff McCarthy
Brian Mcknight
Tam Mutu
Desi Oakley
John O Hurley
Ryan Silverman
Ashlee Simpson Wentz
Jerry Springer
Paulo Szot
Ana Villafane
Max von Essen
Tom Wopat
Amra Faye Wright
Ryoko Yonekura
Raymond Bokhour
Brenda Braxton
Jason Danieley
Charity Angél Dawson
Lavon Fisher Wilson
Jennifer Fouche
Cuba Gooding Jr
Angela Grovey
Todrick D Hall
Evan Harrington
Gregory Harrison
Cady Huffman
M Kilgore
Alex Newell
Paul Alexander Nolan
Orfeh
Chaz Lamar Shepherd
Christopher Sieber
Valerie Simpson
Haley Swindal
Rema Webb
Lillias White
Michelle T Williams
NaTasha Yvette Williams
J Workman
Tony Yazbeck
M Agnes
Julio Agustin
Shaun Amyot
Obba Babatunde
Nili Bassman
Eddie Bennett
Nicole Benoit
Rachel Bickerton
Wayne Brady
Nicole Bridgewater
Todd Buonopane
Cristy Candler
Philip Casnoff
Max Clayton
Christine Cornish
Kristine Covillo
Robert Creighton
B. J. Crosby
Michael Cusumano
Billy Ray Cyrus
Paige Davis
M Deming
Kara Dioguardi
Colman Domingo
John Dossett
Pia Douwes
Kate Dunn
Cory English
Tom Riis Farrell
Andrew Fitch
Christopher Fitzgerald
Emily Fletcher
Carmen Ruby Floyd
Eddie George
Robin Givens
Debbie Gravitte
Kelcy Ann Griffin
Melanie Griffith
Harry Hamlin
Melora Hardin
James Harkness
Samantha Harris
Mya Harrison
Brent Heuser
Bahiyah Hibah
Anne Horak
Carly Hughes
Mike Jackson
Jaquez
Adam Jepsen
Donald Jones Jr
Arian Keddell
Mary Claire King
Bonnie Langford
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
Joey Lawrence
Nene Leakes
Adriane Lenox
Huey Lewis
Norm Lewis
Kecia Lewis-Evans
Nathan Madden
Barrett Martin
Luba Mason
Gabrielle Mcclinton
Christopher Mcdonald
Allison Mcdowell
Marla Mcreynolds
D Micciche
Gretchen Mol
Debra Monk
Dana Moore
Sharon Moore
Anne L. Nathan
Peter Nelson
C Newcomer
Jill Nicklaus
Brian O Brien
Ron Orbach
Alfie Parker Jr
Adam Pascal
Vincent Pastore
Christine Pedi
Khori Michelle Petinaud
D Ratell
Usher Raymond
Angel Reda
Mikayla Renfrow
Josh Rhodes
Reva Rice
Lisa Rinna
Matthew Risch
D Sabella Mills
Jason Patrick Sands
Camille Saviola
John Schneider
Michael Scirrotto
Lara Seibert Young
Matthew Settle
Tracy Shayne
Brooke, Shields
T W Smith
Steven Sofia
Dani Spieler
Brian Spitulnik
Angie Stone
Chris Sullivan
Patrick Swayze
Mary Testa
Aida Turturro
Sofia Vergara
D Vogel
Paul Vogt
Tonya Wathen
Colt Adam Weiss
Terri White
Chryssie Whitehead
Rumer Willis
Chandra Wilson
Rita Wilson
Bruce Winant
Matthew Winnegge
Amos Wolff
Carol Woods
Ryan Worsing
Adam Zotovich
Marco Zunino
96 of these 302 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 206 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters6 roles recorded
Ann Reinking Roxie Hart
Bebe Neuwirth Velma Kelly
James Naughton Billy Flynn
Joel Grey Amos Hart
Marcia Lewis Matron "Mama" Morton
David Sabella-Mills Mary Sunshine
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Walter Bobbie
- Choreographer
- Ann Reinking
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Chicago is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on the 1926 play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins, then a journalist covering the city's courthouse beat. A satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, the plot follows felons who manipulate their stories to develop celebrity status. The original Broadway production opened in June 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances, closing in August 1977. Fosse directed and choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. The original West End producti…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No recording is held for Chicago at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.